I remember Clinton having problems with Cabinet appointments but did Bush?

[Hamlette]

I'm blanking. Is it just dems? And if so, why? Held to higher standards?

[Thrill]

1. Democrats never stood up to really stop any Bush's nominees

And the media never investigated them.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicon Homelanders want America to fail

So they have devoted themselves to trying to screw up everything (and they are very talented at that)

[camera obscura]

3. Linda Chavez - Bush's pick for labor

Can't remember what happened, just the name and the position.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Wasn't it something with paying an illegal who lived with her?

[calico1]

6. Yes, that is what I remember. n/t

[soccermomforobama]

4. Bush also did a large number of recess appointments

like Bolton to avoid Senate confirmation. He had over 100 recess appointments during his 8 year term.

[karynnj]

7. Chavez, Bolton, Harriet Meyers, and Fox are the ones I remember

Bolton and Fox NEVER were going to get either SFRC approval or confirmation in the Senate.

[Hippo_Tron]

8. Ashcroft barely squeaked by

[NV Whino]

9. Nooo.

The goddamned Democrats gave him everything he wanted... except Harriet Meyers.

[tritsofme]

13. It wasn't Democrats that forced him to back down from Miers.

It was other Republicans fearing she would be the next Souter.

[SoCalDem]

10. President Cheney had the cabinet "all picked out", and the dems were a MINORITY

in the senate, and on the committees, so most sailed through, except for Chavez.. (they threw her under the bus pretty quickly)

[OHdem10]

11. The Corporate Media fears their Corporate Bosses enough to rarely

challenge GOP. GOP are "most disciplined"---fall in lockstep ans
dare anyone to question.

Our Party no longer has the "statesmen" it once had and cave withoug
questioning.

[wiggs]

12. Read suskind's Price of Loyalty, about Paul Oneill and his concerns about

the Bush administration. Hard hitting and prescient. We should have listened. Instead, Cheney and Rove smeared him.

Bush's head of faith based programs also resigned. Scores of ambassadors resigned over Iraq, including Keisling (googled his letter...very telling).

Bush had all kinds of problems.

[dbt]

14. We never saw it on TV,

so it must not have happened.

:evilgrin: