MB Civic

By Ezra Klein | Sunday, February 14, 2010 | The Washington Post

“…The easiest way to fix all this would be to reduce the number of positions requiring Senate confirmation. It’s obvious why the nominee for Treasury secretary must come before the Senate, but do we need a hearing for the director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development? The undersecretary of commerce for export administration? The co-chair of the Northern Border Regional Commission? How many senators, exactly, do we think have an informed opinion on these positions, much less on the nominees to fill them? There’s a reason that a board of directors will pick a company’s chief executive but not vote on each and every product manager….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103901_pf.html