days in, how is Obama stacking up on appointments compared to other presidents?
There is typically a surge in the last few days and, assuming that surge, we should anticipate a record setting performance. At this pace, they will have most of the top positions in the policy government filled and that means they will be ready (and early by comparison) to fully address the challenges facing the American government. It does seem as though they’ve learned that staffing is the biggest challenge of the first hundred days. As Clay Johnson, former deputy chief-of-staff in George W. Bush’s first administration, kept saying last summer, “Personnel, personnel, personnel, get that house in order!” And they have taken that message seriously. There’s been, for example, a pretty short amount of time between announcing someone and filing their paperwork. And this has paid off in 63 Senate confirmations and the likelihood of breaking Reagan’s first 100 days record of 83, maybe even what everyone says is impossible: 100 confirmations by day 100. This is a huge lead in comparison wit
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