Interim Heads Increasingly Run Federal Agencies

New York Times

With only 15 months left in office, President Bush has left whole agencies of the executive branch to be run largely by acting or interim appointees — jobs that would normally be filled by people whose nominations would have been reviewed and confirmed by the Senate. In many cases, there is no obvious sign of movement at the White House to find permanent nominees, suggesting that many important jobs will not be filled by Senate-confirmed officials for the remainder of the Bush administration. That would effectively circumvent the Senate’s right to review and approve the appointments. It also means that the jobs are filled by people who do not have the clout to make decisions that comes with a permanent appointment endorsed by the Senate, scholars say.

Of course Interim Heads are being used. President Bush couldn't get a single person he'd really like to appoint through congress. For now, he is letting things hang, without any regard for it's impact on the country. He's simply living in his own reality, actively pursuing a mindset of denial, ignoring the truths about the shape of the country, the shape of the world, and responsibility for his hand in creating the mess.

Bush has given up on trying to be the leader of a democratic republic. In fact, he has all together given up on leading.

Thus concludes the reign of the Miserable Failure. All that is left is the rotten corpse.