Wednesday 11 January 2017

Let the Great Theater Begin....

Tuesday was the first of many Senate confirmation hearings for nominees to the incoming Trump Administration. First up, Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Needless to say, the Senate is going to be very busy with the confirmation process for the next several weeks.

Team Trump is scrambling to fill more than 4000 jobs. Of those, more than 1200 need Senate confirmation-- an enormous task for Trump's transition team and for Senators trying to vet them. If you want to keep score, the Partnership for Public Service has set up a "confirmation tracker" that will help you follow the progress of nearly 700 of those appointees as they work their way through the confirmation process.


Rather than try and handicap any of the confirmation hearings, I thought I'd take a stab at suggesting you watch a lot of it as through it is Great Theater.

Redefining the Floor....Down

I was scrolling through some YouTube clips the other day and came across the great Seinfeld episode in which Frank Costanza invites Seinfeld...