Childish Republican partisanship epitomized here-

[RJKarl]

This is something that has never happened before. McConnell is a partisan who is harming America, American business and Americans who travel.

This is an indefensible disgrace.

http://ivn.us/2014/07/28/political-dysfunction-american-diplomacy-time-start-voting-nominees/

Edit-here's another article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/u...-logjam-of-ambassador-confirmations.html?_r=0

"n addition to 43 ambassadors, there are 11 other nominees for top State Department jobs awaiting confirmation. The office that oversees the United States’ relationships with international organizations is waiting for its permanent leader, as is the office in charge of arms control verification.

Of the ambassadorial nominations waiting for Senate approval, about half are career Foreign Service officers whose appointments to countries like Honduras and Niger would normally be approved with ease. In his statement last week, Mr. Kerry made a special plea for them, arguing that “they should be expeditiously confirmed as a block, just the way we handle promotions of our military officers.”

 

[Biff Tannen]

Or:

To put it another way, neither Senate Democrats nor Senate Republicans are primarily interested in making American foreign policy work. Both parties see vacant ambassadorships as a way to make a point about something else: Obama’s incompetence, Harry Reid’s heavy handedness, Republican intransigence, Democratic arrogance, and so on.

“It’s a bipartisan failure of the Senate,” according to Bib Silverman, president of the American Foreign Service Association.

 

[DeaconCav06]

Did you read the article, RJ?

 

[RJKarl]

I have and this is the key part:

"President Obama’s nomination for the ambassador to Guatemala, Todd D. Robertson, is currently before the Senate, along with 42 other ambassadorial appointments. This means that more than 25 percent of the countries in the world do not have an American ambassador. And this is a problem because, as John Kerry recently commented, “we are going without our strongest voices on the ground every day in more than 25% of the world.”

This is the key part. It's not being stopped because Dems don't want to vote on them.

 

[smallbigtall]

did you see this, RJ?

 

[PhDeac]

"Childish Republican" would be decent rapper name.

 

[bcobbdeacs]

Try "childish republicunt" to paraphrase True Blood