Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings

[Belsnickel]

(09-04-2018, 04:03 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Sure. Do you think he made policy? Would it be better is I said "merely a secretary"?**

** Disclaimer: bfine's intention is not to belittle to hard work done by clerks and secretaries throughout the world. It is to illustrate they have no policy making capacity. They are simply administrative assistants.

He most certainly did make policy. Maybe not the policies we all hear about, but he was responsible for what paperwork made it to the Resolute Desk and what didn't. What was sent out to other staff and when. He was responsible for setting those policies and that has a major impact on things.

Technically speaking, the elected officials are the policy makers, but they have abdicated some of that responsibility to lower level bureaucrats which then delegate it to lower level bureaucrats, and so on. Gatekeeper roles like he was in have a large impact on policy that many people overlook.

Hell, I make policy in my role and it is much more perfunctory than what Kavanaugh did in the Bush administration and that's not even taking into account he also held the title of Assistant to the President, which carries more influence.