One reason might be the personal attacks that ANY appointee must face before (and IF) the appointment is confirmed by the senate. Those that do not seem to get these attacks are usually hacks, such as ex-Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA) whom Bush appointed head of the SEC after Donaldson left because Congressional Republicans were opposing his efforts to look into Wall Street misdeeds.

Right now, Obama’s administration has more open posts than ANY administration in history at this point in his term due to the Republican “WAR” on any show of competence from his administration. This goes from the latest filibuster of a judge appointment (Jack Lew), something that Republicans PROMISED they would NEVER do, to appointees to the FED and other departments. You have to really love the country to want to walk that Kangaroo Line.

The Democrats have opposed the appointments of real ideologues (see Bork), but the Republicans oppose competence. 

Thom, PLEASE ask your guests the obvious question… WHY does so so much of our business and defense infrastructre have to be connected to the internet??? Why isn’t there a PHYSICAL division between internal hardwired networks and the internet?

Not entirely true. Many attacks also come from Eastern Europe and South America. In fact, Argentina is a major ‘hub’ of cyber attacks.

And speaking of corporations and the constant barrage of fear mongering to sell the public their monopolizing authority; why is it that “we the people” are in chronic fear of one of these too big to fail giants going under? Like all of our nations security / eggs have been put in one basket that gives these giants too much responsibility and no accountability for the enigma of information that has been leaked out to other nations what THEY say patents have been infringed upon. “we” pay to have all of our children to be educated and then the corporations take their ideas and sell them to the lowest bidder; is this not a scam and a lie that their systems have been hacked what is in reality further exploitation of the American people?

There are patent right infringement that can be exercised after the fact and our government could actually screen the bins of product to make sure that some things comply. With all of that said: “we the people” have been hoodwinked by a few corporations who now hold our future in their hands and a government who has been negligent or has CONTRIVED to be of special service to the giants of manufacturing and commerce. Is it not the Constitutional law in the areas of making sure that the common welfare of the people is guarded through the exercise of regulation of our economic infrastructures that we are PROTECTED from such internal threats?

Before our last great depression there were hundreds of automobile manufactures in this great nation and there were tens of thousands of new and wonderful ideas being put in the pages of the patent office. “we” have been let down by the commerce and trade divisions of our government that are suppose to protect the SOVEREIGN rights of not only the people but to also make sure that we are guaranteed a DIVERSE and PROSPEROUS atmosphere in which to work and have the security of that which guarantees that all of our eggs / JOBS are NOT in one basket like too big to fail and their giant labor pools who have so much control and who have broke this nation by the wall street sell off many of our jobs and is not wall street ONE BIG MONOPOLIZING SCAM in of itself?

Those big corporations are not worried about patent rights as it relates to the jobs of the American working classes but THEY are only worried about the profitability of those few of wall street and the monopolizing agents that have put this nation on its knees. There were suppose to be guarantees carried out through laws and regulations that keep these things from happening but do you think that the powers that be (our bought and paid for rules and regulations the lobby monopoly) are going to admit to kowtowing to the giants of industry? Of course not and is it any wonder that we (speaking of monopolization) that our public schools SYSTEM has also been infiltrated by the same authoritarian RULES that turn out cookie cutter children who all know the same things and are all cut from the same cloth so these monopolizing giants from hell have their human resources delivered on a silver platter knowing no more and no less than THEY have been sub-scripted to know; not being “over qualified” as an INDUSTRY STANDARD.

I am sickened by the way we have all been hoodwinked into believing that we live in a so-called free society with free trade when in reality all of our minds therefore our labors are being predisposed to the public school systems of the COLLECTIVE corporate forces that have indoctrinated us all to be servants to such a fascist state.

In reality “IT” is all about information and or the censoring of information and that the masses have all been dumb down by the same giants that have control over over the industry that we serve. Free trade is a myth; to wit

We want one class to have a liberal
education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity,
to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to
perform specific difficult manual tasks.

snip from>http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/2b.htm

By 1917, the major administrative jobs in
American schooling were under the control of a group referred to in the
press of that day as “the Education Trust.” The first meeting of this
trust included representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard,
Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the National Education
Association. The chief end, wrote Benjamin Kidd, the British
evolutionist, in 1918, was to “impose on the young the ideal of
subordination.”

At first, the primary target was the
tradition of independent livelihoods in America. Unless Yankee
entrepreneurialism could be extinguished, at least among the common
population, the immense capital investments that mass production
industry required for equipment weren’t conceivably justifiable.
Students were to learn to think of themselves as employees competing for the favor of management. Not as Franklin or Edison had once regarded themselves, as self-determined, free agents.>end snip