Senate Schedules Vote Today On O'Malley Nomination
According to the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the matter, there's been unanimous consent in the Senate to vote on Martin O'Malley's nomination today.
Yay! Looking forward to more of the same bulls**t “data-driven” management that makes our jobs insufferable and makes delivering improved services impossible.
You’re right. The bad leadership and terrible, destructive policy decisions aren’t the problem. The problem is that the rest of us just aren’t smiling enough and raving enough about how terrific and grand the bad leaders and bad policies are. Idiot.
This is mostly true, but won't it be nice to finally have a permanent, Senate-confirmed Commissioner with political experience who can lobby Congress for what the agency needs?
Nobody on the Hill is going to listen to Carolyn Colvin, Nancy Berryhill, or Kilolo Kijakazi. They will listen to O'Malley, even if they don't ultimately agree. That's just how DC works.
They don’t listen to the President of the United States. What on earth makes you sure they’ll listen to an unelected appointee from his part? At best, this will do nothing but lend a veneer of legitimacy to the same utter bulls**t that has kept the agency in a death spiral for years. Sorry his promises to carry on with the same technocratic bad management his predecessors have championed didn’t make me more optimistic about him.
They will listen a lot more to him because he looks like them and talks like them. He knows how to play the same games they do. I don't agree that should be the way it is, but that isvthe reality.
People said the same thing about Joe Biden, and yet all we get from Congress’s largest body are conspiracy theories about his son and complaints about how Joe Biden made McDonald’s charge $18 for a big Mac. You’re deluded if you think O’Malley will be treated any differently than his predecessor
If he leaves the same poor SESer management as his advisors, he is doomed. Their advice has destroyed the workforce, left morale in a shamble and created a public service disaster... Kilolo is probably a very nice woman, but she does not appear to have a clue how to run a federal agency and her reliance on current advisors has not served her well...
The Republicans are still whining about Saul being fired "without cause" as they see it.
Yeah, anyone who has anything to do with SSA knows Saul was an absolute worthless tool. But, the red wingnut brigade likes its worthless tools a lot and aren't going to have anything to do with legitimizing O'Malley as the commissioner.
And, if Trump gets re-elected, he'll probably do a tit-for-tat and fire him anyway just because he can.
I have to say I am hopeful. Prior to this confirmation, there wasn’t a feeling of hope. But this can be viewed as potentially a major force for change. And that’s better than nothing at this point. Really hoping his leadership brings transformative change and a willingness to implement common-sense measures and feedback from the field.
@6:37 His term ends Jan 2025. I want him to succeed as much as anyone, but those are the facts. We don't need to bring Trump "firing" people into this.
Commish is a useless and powerless position. In charge of nothing, controls nothing, does nothing but gets all the blame. Not in control of the budget, not in charge of how many people work in the agency, basically all they can do is say this is a priority. Well guess what it is all a priority to someone. Good news is he has a great career in lobbying in the future.
Yay! Looking forward to more of the same bulls**t “data-driven” management that makes our jobs insufferable and makes delivering improved services impossible.
ReplyDelete@ 8:22am Glad to see such positivity at the Administration. Get a new job, please. No one wants the administration filled with comfortable pessimists.
ReplyDeleteYou’re right. The bad leadership and terrible, destructive policy decisions aren’t the problem. The problem is that the rest of us just aren’t smiling enough and raving enough about how terrific and grand the bad leaders and bad policies are. Idiot.
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ReplyDeleteTo be fair, I attribute a ton of the fundamental issues with SSA to Congress. Not sure how much the Commish can really do at this point.
This is mostly true, but won't it be nice to finally have a permanent, Senate-confirmed Commissioner with political experience who can lobby Congress for what the agency needs?
DeleteNobody on the Hill is going to listen to Carolyn Colvin, Nancy Berryhill, or Kilolo Kijakazi. They will listen to O'Malley, even if they don't ultimately agree. That's just how DC works.
They don’t listen to the President of the United States. What on earth makes you sure they’ll listen to an unelected appointee from his part? At best, this will do nothing but lend a veneer of legitimacy to the same utter bulls**t that has kept the agency in a death spiral for years. Sorry his promises to carry on with the same technocratic bad management his predecessors have championed didn’t make me more optimistic about him.
DeleteThey will listen a lot more to him because he looks like them and talks like them. He knows how to play the same games they do. I don't agree that should be the way it is, but that isvthe reality.
DeletePeople said the same thing about Joe Biden, and yet all we get from Congress’s largest body are conspiracy theories about his son and complaints about how Joe Biden made McDonald’s charge $18 for a big Mac. You’re deluded if you think O’Malley will be treated any differently than his predecessor
DeleteCan he save the Agency without additional funding? No. Will he bring some common sense leadership that’s been sorely lacking under Kilolo? Yes.
ReplyDeleteIf he leaves the same poor SESer management as his advisors, he is doomed. Their advice has destroyed the workforce, left morale in a shamble and created a public service disaster... Kilolo is probably a very nice woman, but she does not appear to have a clue how to run a federal agency and her reliance on current advisors has not served her well...
ReplyDeleteHe needs to clean house and remove the entire staff at Hr and labor relations
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans are still whining about Saul being fired "without cause" as they see it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, anyone who has anything to do with SSA knows Saul was an absolute worthless tool. But, the red wingnut brigade likes its worthless tools a lot and aren't going to have anything to do with legitimizing O'Malley as the commissioner.
And, if Trump gets re-elected, he'll probably do a tit-for-tat and fire him anyway just because he can.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/12/martin-omalley-confirmed-social-security-commissioner/392860/
ReplyDelete50-11 vote.
I have to say I am hopeful. Prior to this confirmation, there wasn’t a feeling of hope. But this can be viewed as potentially a major force for change. And that’s better than nothing at this point. Really hoping his leadership brings transformative change and a willingness to implement common-sense measures and feedback from the field.
ReplyDelete@6:37 His term ends Jan 2025. I want him to succeed as much as anyone, but those are the facts. We don't need to bring Trump "firing" people into this.
ReplyDeleteCommish is a useless and powerless position. In charge of nothing, controls nothing, does nothing but gets all the blame. Not in control of the budget, not in charge of how many people work in the agency, basically all they can do is say this is a priority. Well guess what it is all a priority to someone. Good news is he has a great career in lobbying in the future.
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