Sen. John McCain “is blocking President Obama’s picks to fill senior Pentagon positions, calling their answers to questions at a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday ‘naive’ and ‘nonsensical.'” National Journal reports.  

“The Arizona Republican was visibly frustrated that Robert Work, Obama’s nominee for deputy Defense secretary, was not intimately familiar with a critical government report detailing cost overruns from the Littoral Combat Ship program. Separately, McCain ripped Christine Wormuth, Obama’s pick for undersecretary of Defense for policy. The nominee, he said, was either ignorant of the threat al-Qaida poses or was refusing to answer his questions about the terrorist group’s spread.”