1. Congress would be holding televised hearings now.
2. Fox news and CNN would have the event in screaming headlines, with streamers about it at least every half-hour for several weeks afterwards.
3. Every television and radio network would have at least a 45 second segment about the resignation for at least 3 consecutive days, on their prime time news.
4. Most Republicans would be calling the appointment an impeachable offense.
5. The story would be played up on local TV news in Pittsburgh as soon as our Super Bowl mania dies down a little bit.
Nice try, but this kind of partisan appointment happens all the time, in both parties.
You mean the way they went after Sandy the Burgler for stealing and destroying top secret documents? Oh. Wait. That didn't happen The Burgler got away with it.