So who’s to blame when it comes to the lack of confirmations for heads and leaders of various government agencies? Everyone, even the president, according to this recent Roll Call op-ed.

It’s also a sign that everyone involved in this process–the president and the White House, Senate leaders of both parties, the FBI and other agencies involved in vetting–needs to get serious about changing its downward spiral.

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Blocking a highly qualified nominee to the Fed during a very difficult economic time is shameful. It was in 2008; it is now. But the blockage of nominees for extraneous reasons extends well beyond the Fed. We have several Justice Department nominees held hostage and a pledge by Senate Republicans to hold up the superbly qualified nominee for secretary of Commerce, John Bryson, over trade agreements. And we have the unprecedented situation of a Senate Republican commitment to block any nominees for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because Republicans don’t like it. The CFPB is the law of the land. Misusing the confirmation power of the Senate to keep the law from being implemented–declaring that the qualifications for an office do not matter, and neither does the law of the land–is beyond shameful.

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