Berwick recess appointment is the worst thing to ever happen...if you are a Republican Senator

Since Republicans always seem to wish that government was run more like a big business I would like to ask any Republican when the last time there was a major corporation that went without a CEO for over six months. Based on the compensation for CEO's I believe most big businesses find having someone in charge very important, however these same people have left 180 Presidential appointments hanging out to dry because of a political agenda. It does accomplish another goal of the Republicans, which is to make government look incompetent, since failing to fill these important positions makes the Senate look silly while leaving the day to day operations of these organizations in the hands of someone who has not been vetted by the Senate or is necessarily qualified to handle the responsibilities of the top man. Well done Republicans. You've killed two birds with one obstruction tactic.

The Presidents only option to bypass these sophomoric tactics of the right is to do a recess appointment. As you may have heard recently Donald Berwick was appointed to head Medicare and Medicaid using this method. According to Senate Republicans Dr. Berwick is a controversial appointment and in case you didn't realize you were outraged by the appointment of this guy Mitch McConnell, speaking for you, accused Obama of trying to "arrogantly circumvent the American people".

Just so I understand, one of the main guys behind the complete perversion of the democratic process where a simple majority is no longer viable, is accusing the President of the United States of being arrogant? Am I missing something? Appointing someone to an important government position is an arrogant use of the Presidents power, and hijacking the Senate is what the American people want?

Beyond that Senator McConnell calls Dr. Berwick a controversial appointment. These claims are made based on writings Dr. Berwick has done regarding rationing and the British health care system, which is a Universal Health care system. A Republican mantra has always been that America is great because of our ability to innovate. Why is this line of thinking limited to business? Isn't it possible that the US government can take all of the information that exists with every other industrialized nation having some form of universal health care and make an even better system? Apparently Senator McConnell thinks so little of the American people who serve their country on a daily basis that the only possible option from these people on how to run a health care system is total Armageddon. Apparently the only rationing of health care that Senator McConnell supports is the rationing that the insurance companies have decided on.

Void of that the only people who seem to think Dr. Berwick is a controversial appointment is Senate Republicans. How very Republican of you Senator to assume having a view point validates your view point. Berwick is supported by the American Hospital Association, AARP, as well as President Bush's two heads of the same agency Mark McClellan and Thomas A. Scully, but apparently Senator Mitch McConnell feels he knows better than the people in the industry or those who have held this job before on what makes a good head of the CMS.