It's Been A Hard Week For Todd Akin And Facts

Rep. Todd Akin has a column today on the conservative website New Ledger lamenting the existence of special advisors to the President, or "czars."

Setting aside the still-stunning hypocrisy of Republicans' concerns about Obama's czars, the Washington Independent's David Weigel caught another small problem in Akin's argument:

“Why does President Obama appear so eager to appoint ‘czars,’” [Akin] asks, “while leaving positions requiring Senate confirmation unfilled?” The Republican holds on and filibusters against many of the president’s nominees go unmentioned, but Akin argues that the administration isn’t trying hard enough to staff up. And that’s less of a mistake than one of Akin’s three examples of unexamined appointees:

John Holdren, the “science czar.”

Holdren is Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and was confirmed by a unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate on March 19, 2009.

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