The Whole Delivery

Photo from New York Times' Ruth 41 is still greater than 59 in Washington D.C.

Sam Stein reports today that the White House is very frustrated with how Dawn Johnsen and other executive/judical nominees have not been confirmed yet despite nominating them a LONG LONG time ago. This has lead to an eminent renomination of those hopeful appointees "We have put a number of people into government in the first year," Gibbs said, in a response to a question by the Huffington Post. "But at the same time we have seen a pacing in dealing with nominations, both for the executive branch and judicial nominations that, I think, by almost any estimation would be deemed slow." As Gibbs briefed reporters, sources said that the White House will push to re-nominate seven of those judicial and political appointees who have been held up in the Senate, including Dawn Johnsen, the controversial nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel. Two sources with knowledge of the situation told HuffPost that they expected the re-nominations to be announced soon. But administ...