The Politico has a good piece on Mary Baker, the Senate Finance Committee tax analyst who has spearheaded the vetting process that’s doomed so many of the administration’s nominees. One expert in the article makes an interesting point: What Baker and her team is doing looks less like traditional vetting and more like auditing. And most audits do find errors. The question, in theory, should then be whether the errors are germane to service. But that’s not really what’s happened. Rather, the errors have proven germane to political embarrassment, and that’s basically been enough.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.