Republicans may not like it but IMHO until or unless they submit legislation to alter or abolish it and said legislation becomes law, they need to quit playing games and preventing the agency from functioning as it currently exists BY LAW at this time. Senator Lugar (R-IN), when I once wrote him a letter applauding his confirmation of Jocelyn Elders for Surgeon General under Clinton, wrote back to me in response that he believed that a President was entitled to his nominees. Unfortunately, assuming that he is part of the GOP caucus participating in the filibuster against Mr. Cordray, Lugar doesn't seem to believe in this high-minded principle any longer. From what I can recall, the Democrats gave GWB most of his nominees as well, at least the ones necessary for keeping critical government agencies functioning and the Republicans, for the most part, didn't put up these kind of hurdles for most of Clinton's nominees. There needs to be some kind of general agreement on the part of the Senators that, absent some kind of extraordinary circumstances, whoever assumes the Presidency really should be able get his/her nominees confirmed, or at the very least, they should not be subjected to filibusters, secret holds, etc. It's really kind of scary when, earlier in his Presidency, it took an outbreak of Swine Flu for Obama to get his HHS Secretary (Sebelius) confirmed. The Republicans had better be thankful that THAT situation didn't turn out worse for the public and that federal intervention wasn't hamstrung by petty politicking. 
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