Members of your party in the Senate hardly objected when President Obama last July circumvented the constitutional checks and balances of the confirmation process by making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick as the new head of the all powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
If FDR can appoint his neighbor Henry Morgenthau as Treasury Secretary and Carter could appoint two industrialists to the post, Obama would be making a fresh bold appointment that could have impressive results in the relationship between Wall Street, Washington and Main Street.
But on January 6th Mr Obama was back in the firing-line, accused of making another dubiously qualified appointment in the shape of Sanjay Gupta, a TV presenter and doctor, to be surgeon-general.