The new Secretary of Agriculture was confirmed by the Senate yesterday in a vote of 87 to 11. Got that? It took until April 24 for Secretary Purdue to be approved by the Senate. Obviously, there was no real opposition to his nomination; only eleven Democrats opposed it, while 35 voted in favor of the nomination. Nevertheless, we are over three months into the Trump administration and the office is just getting filled. This is the direct result of the never-ending obstruction by the Democrats to all of the Trump nominees.
One has to wonder what purpose was served by the opposition. Not a single Trump nominee failed to win his or her confirmation vote. The nominee for Labor Secretary did withdraw for his own reasons, but that had nothing to do with the delays by the Democrats. Further, during each of the Bush, Obama and Clinton administrations, there were multiple nominees who were not approved but the total cabinet was in place much earlier than this. So what the Democrats had was a long drawn-out failure to accomplish anything. All that they did was to show their base that they were "resisting".
Of course, the next question that has to be answered is whether or not the delay is good for the USA. Is America well served if there is no Secretary of Agriculture for three months? I think it is safe to say that the future of the nation was not at stake without a head of the USDA. Nevertheless, how many issues affecting the American farmer were left without direction because there was no one in charge at the department? How many items that needed attention were just ignored or sloughed off? Each one of these items had the ability to hurt a great many people, but the Democrats seemed not to care. I mean there were no issues raised against the nominee; the Democrats just delayed for no valid reason at all.
This is an outrage which will, no doubt, be completely ignored by the media. Hopefully, however, the American voters did not miss the contempt shown for them by the Democrats.
One has to wonder what purpose was served by the opposition. Not a single Trump nominee failed to win his or her confirmation vote. The nominee for Labor Secretary did withdraw for his own reasons, but that had nothing to do with the delays by the Democrats. Further, during each of the Bush, Obama and Clinton administrations, there were multiple nominees who were not approved but the total cabinet was in place much earlier than this. So what the Democrats had was a long drawn-out failure to accomplish anything. All that they did was to show their base that they were "resisting".
Of course, the next question that has to be answered is whether or not the delay is good for the USA. Is America well served if there is no Secretary of Agriculture for three months? I think it is safe to say that the future of the nation was not at stake without a head of the USDA. Nevertheless, how many issues affecting the American farmer were left without direction because there was no one in charge at the department? How many items that needed attention were just ignored or sloughed off? Each one of these items had the ability to hurt a great many people, but the Democrats seemed not to care. I mean there were no issues raised against the nominee; the Democrats just delayed for no valid reason at all.
This is an outrage which will, no doubt, be completely ignored by the media. Hopefully, however, the American voters did not miss the contempt shown for them by the Democrats.
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