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That's why it would be so important for a president to know that his Joint Chiefs nominees personally support his policy (so they'll be on his side in the battle with Congress) and not just that they will obey him (which wouldn't do the president any good).
There are different explanations for the various holdups above--the sentencing commission is empty because Democratic and Republican senators failed for months to compromise on a slate of nominees; Holbrooke's nomination was delayed by an almost-but-not-entirely meritless ethics charge; the Beijing job is difficult to fill because no one wants to defend Clinton's China policy to Senate Republicans, etc.--but together they suggest a process that is astonishingly screwed up.
Jesse Helms staffer), who digs up embarrassing information on administration nominees and campaigns against them with critical op-eds and by otherwise purveying damaging tidbits.
The hereditary peers, nearly all of them conservatives, did not argue with the case for their own abolition, but repeatedly pointed out that a nonelected chamber consisting exclusively of government nominees would be even less democratic than one dominated by people who had arrived there by accident of birth.
In his annual report on the judiciary--usually a highly unmemorable document--the chief justice criticized the Senate for stonewalling President Clinton's judicial nominees.