From Newsweek:
Obama has had no trouble attracting job applicants—he’s received some 300,000 for 3,300 positions. But of the top 373 open slots that require Senate confirmation, according to The Washington Post, Obama has been able to fill only 43 so far. A superstrict vetting process has weeded out or driven off some otherwise very qualified candidates, most notably Obama’s highly touted pick to reform health care, Tom Daschle. Nominated to be Health and Human Services secretary, Daschle withdrew after it was disclosed he had failed to pay about $140,000 in back taxes and interest on a car and driver provided as a corporate perk. The White House says scores of candidates are stuck in a Senate-confirmation logjam.
