You state that "Americans have a right to know more about those individuals you appoint to such lofty levels of public influence. "

Did it upset you when Bush Jr. skirted around confirmation hearings and snuck in the Iran-Contra criminals into his administration and put them in charge of top secret intelligence?

Once again you, like other conservatives, fail to offer a feasible solution to the nations healthcare crisis yet you are quick to critize Obama's.
There is over 40 million people in the US than can afford healthcare. So basically health care is being rationed now. Privatized healthcare is a plan that only works for the wealthy yet conservatives can't seem to comprehend that. The US is one of the wealthiest countries on earth but has one of the worst health care programs. The conservative solution is to do nothing at all.

In this day and age healthcare should be available to every human on this planet...no exceptions!

So instead of flapping your gums to make political points you could better serve the people by working...

Liberals do not expect everything to be equal...we just want things to be fair. There is people that work their whole lives to try and make a good life for themselves and then there future is destroyed if they happen to need an expensive medical procedure....is that fair?
Then you have other people that work full time but their wages are so low that they cannot afford health insurance...is that fair?

Corporate greed on all levels is forcing the working class into poverty. CEO's get millions of dollars in bonuses for outsourcing jobs that save their corporations money. By doing so they are putting more and more Americans out of work. So you end up with Joe average unemployment line with no insurance because some greedy b*stard...