Sound Politics: Sims appointment hit a snag

May 06, 2009

Sims appointment hit a snag

April 28: Senate Banking committee votes on the nominations of 4 individuals to serve at HUD: Ron Sims, Helen Kanovsky, Peter Kovar, John Trasvina.

One of these nominations is not like the others.

May 4:

WASHINGTON - Helen Kanovsky, Peter Kovar and John Trasvina were sworn in Monday as the General Counsel, Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, respectively at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. All three were unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 1, 2009.

Hmm.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 06, 2009 03:05 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Probably waiting for him to give notice and have the go-away bash. Fella can't have two jobs now, can he? (Well, I suppose Sims could because you fill in the blanks)

Posted by: swatter on May 6, 2009 04:53 PM

2. "One of these nominations is not like the others."

LOL!!

Posted by: Michele on May 6, 2009 05:39 PM

3. Good ol' Senate Banking Committee. It must have undue influence from members who actually have received - and understood - some good home training.

Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on May 6, 2009 05:51 PM

4. As much as I'd like to believe the US Senate capable of bouncing a buffoon, I think you give them way too much credit. If the Senate can confirm tax cheats, porn defenders, and radical anti-life and pro-Global Warming nominees from the One, Sims must appear like a breath of fresh air.

So Sims suppresses transparency, corrupts elections and panders to large special interests. Those things are resume enhancements to the corrupt cabal we've got running things in DC today.

Posted by: Reality on May 6, 2009 08:36 PM

5. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/06/1516048-sims-to-resign-tomorrow

Posted by: cat on May 6, 2009 08:45 PM

6. You've got to do a lot more than run a county in to the ground, deny records requests to conceal unauthenticated provisionals in an extremely close election, and conspire with big money to build taxpayer funded stadiums to get denied by this Democrat Senate.

Sims would probably have to murder someone to not get confirmed. Oh wait ... Ted Kennedy is still a member of the Senate, so I'd say Sims has it in the bag.

Posted by: Jeff B. on May 6, 2009 09:39 PM

7. Honestly, I think that witholding of information that could have swayed an election is a total resume-enhancer in the the democrat party.

Posted by: Michele on May 6, 2009 10:31 PM

8.
Virtually every where you look these days, Republicans are getting hammered in both the voting booth and opinion polls. Their full-on embrace of the disastrous Bush/Cheney administration and the bible thumping religious right has left them with an approval rating somewhere between divorce lawyers and life insurance salesmen.

Consequently, they are relegated to complaining bitterly about perceived hypocrisy (see Pudge's previous post), leering speculation about local pols tapped to serve at the federal level (this post), and some rather pathetic gatherings of rednecks "singing to their country" and waiving tea bags in an unfocused rage about the fact that their guy lost the last election.

Their current hero is a morbidly overweight, grumpy, self-absorbed blow hard who insists that the problem is they are not sufficiently exclusive. If only they could get rid of the few remaining voices of reason in the party, they'd attract more voters and regain power.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country has come to soundly reject the "conservative principles" that got us into all the dire straights we must now deal with.

Keep doin' what yer doin' guys. It will get you right where you are now; nowhere.

Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 6, 2009 10:41 PM

9. The go-away bash was almost 2 weeks ago

5pm Fri Apr-24-2009

Friends of Ron Sims
Westin Hotel Grand Ballroom
1900 Fifth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101

Ron Sims Farewell Party
5pm - 7pm
Thank Ron for his years of service to the community; net proceeds to Northwest Harvest. www.northwestharvest.org
Created By King County Democratic Central Committee

Minimum Admission: $50
Advance Reservations: Suggested

http://www.northwestharvest.org/Events/Calendar.htm?cid=4536

Lorrie McKay
(206) 689-3210
friends@ronsims.com

Posted by: Green Lake on May 6, 2009 10:55 PM

10. Hey, Witz @8: I really had no idea you were the current hero of the Republican Party!

Posted by: katomar on May 6, 2009 11:23 PM

11. When "Unkl Witz" said this 'Their current hero is a morbidly overweight, grumpy, self-absorbed blow hard', I thought he was describing himself!

Posted by: Pete on May 7, 2009 04:39 AM

12. The Democrats' full-on embrace of the disastrous Obama/Biden administration and the tree-hugging, anticapitalist religious greenies has left them with an approval rating somewhere between divorce lawyers and life insurance salesmen.

And the Chicago-style corruption involved in screwing secured bondholders to pay off union goons at Chrysler will drive that approval rating still lower, and also drive away anyone in their right mind who is asked for a loan by such a crooked 'public-private' entity.

Having a President who formerly posed as a teacher of Constitutional law, and now eagerly uses political coercion to break good-faith contracts, is just another bonus to the crooks in charge in Washington.

Guard your valuables, and ready the tar and feathers.

Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on May 7, 2009 09:44 AM

13. A recent poll:

Research 2000, Adults MoE 2%, Apr 27, 2009 - Apr 30, 2009 (last week's results in parentheses)

FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE
PRESIDENT OBAMA 70 (68) 25 (26) +3

PELOSI: 38 (37) 45 (44) +0
REID: 35 (34) 49 (48) +0
McCONNELL: 21 (22) 60 (58) -3
BOEHNER: 16 (17) 62 (61) -2

CONGRESS DEMS: 44 (43) 49 (50) +2
CONGRESS GOPS: 14 (15) 71 (70) -2

DEM PARTY: 54 (53) 40 (41) +2
REP PARTY: 22 (23) 68 (67) -2

Please note the 68% unfavorable for the Rep Party, and 71% for Congressional Reps.

Ouch!!

Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 7, 2009 01:19 PM

14. And the hits just keep on comin':

"Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he's so outraged by GOP overspending, he's quitting the party -- and he's the bull's-eye of its target audience. "

"Oh noes! If you can't hold on to your basic, "queer"-hatin', low-information, unlicensed plumber not really named Joe that you hold up for WAAAAYYYY past his fifteen minutes as the epitome of the Republican Party, who can you hold on to?"

Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 7, 2009 01:51 PM

15. By the way Shark, how'd that "snag" work out with Simms' appointment?

Any word?

Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 7, 2009 01:53 PM

16. I agree Witz. Republicans suck and are ineffective. But I'd rather have ineffective idiots bumbling around in government so as not to make government to good at growing. Progressives are driving debt into the trillions, creating unsustainable conditions in employment, large city infrastructure, education and health care. Just wait until they get their hands in to the 25 to 50 trillion dollar Social Security mess.

A phoenix will rise soon enough from the ashes of Republican incompetence and Democrat overreach.

Posted by: Jeff B. on May 8, 2009 12:30 AM

17.
Jeff:

If "ineffective idiots bumbling around in government" (sic) is what you want, you must have been delighted with the Bush/Cheney administration.

For the rest of us, who have a slightly different definition of patriotism, we'd like a more effective government, and we're willing to put our vote for someone who's willing to spend three trillion dollars on building things here, rather than the same amount destroying Iraq.

Posted by: Unkl Witz on May 8, 2009 07:22 PM