If this were the Supreme Court, you can be damn sure the positions would have been filled by now by XXs or XYs. Instead they have to hire back the old dudes to fill in just to make an en banc panel of seven. It’s uncalled for and shows the level of disdain in which we are held. This is not a new problem, which really aggravates me.

http://www.uscourts.cavc.gov/documents/2011-23_Recall_of_Senior_Judge_Nebeker.pdf

http://www.uscourts.cavc.gov/documents/2011-22_Recall_Senior_Judge.pdf

https://asknod.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/job-openings-cavc/

Now we see the below back in January and discover that the senate has been quibbling over poor Miz Gloria Shelton’s bona fides… either that or she got tired of waiting for them to sit down and give her the interview.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/23/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts

But we were told…

Jan. 25, 2012:  The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee scheduled a hearing for
March 28, 2012, to consider the nominations of Margaret Bartley and Coral
Wong Pietsch to vacancies on the CAVC

Add this to that…

Dec. 11, 2011:  The Senate hearing for the three nominees to the vacancies on
the CAVC scheduled for Dec. 14 has been cancelled.  No new date has been
announced.

But we were promised …

Dec. 6, 2011:  The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee announced that it will
hold a hearing on the three nominees for the vacancies on the CAVC on
Wednesday, December 14.

But wait. Think back further, ma cheri…

Jun. 22, 2011:  President Obama announced his intention to nominate Meg
Bartley and Gloria Wilson Shelton to fill two of the three vacancies on the CAVC. Oops! What happened to the third position? Dang it’s hard finding some good judges to fill all these things.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/21/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts

Can you honestly say you get the impression that those chowder heads are actively engaged in our well-being? Does it give you great pleasure to know these all-knowing, all-powerful guardians of Democracy are dawdling and drinking Stolichnaya martinis while we wait for enough Judges to get a quorum?

Unless I miss my guess, this resembles The Senate fiddled while Gloria burned. So she’s bailed and Obama has now nominated Coral and Margaret. Wow. I guess you don’t need to apply for this unless you’re XX, huh? J1VO, of course.  Ahg! My kingdom for a politically correct tongue. I guess we have to hand out the “What? Me Worry? award to Harry and his merry band of legislators.

What worse? Them screwing with us or the fact that they think we’re dumb and don’t know what they’re up to (or not up to)? To add insult to injury, it isn’t even the RO doing it to you. In this case, you hired them.