By the time of the even less cautious historian Dio Cassius, the rumour had become "fact": "He even promised to appoint [his horse] consul, a promise that he would certainly have carried out if he had lived longer".
Since the day of his arrest, state and national Democrats have urged him not to even try to appoint a new senator, and Mr. Blagojevich's own lawyer has said that he would not.
For now, Mr Netanyahu is not even planning to appoint a new foreign minister, in the hope that Labour will join at a later stage and the job can go to Mr Herzog.
In a gushing editorial in January 2013, the Guardian even urged Ed Miliband to appoint Krugman as Shadow Chancellor.
The governor does not even have the power to appoint his cabinet.
Mr Cameron repeated that he intends to appoint even more peers later, over and above the 50-odd due soon.
No one on the Supreme Court and few in the federal judiciary represent the principles of Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall or William J. Brennan Jr., he said, and even Democratic presidents tend to appoint moderates who move the court "steadily to the right".
The 1947 Constitution also gave the governor unsurpassed powers to veto or even rewrite legislation, and to appoint hundreds of judges, county prosecutors and members of state panels on everything from acupuncture to workers' compensation.
And Ecuador do not even see the need to appoint a new coach - for the moment, Sixto Vizuete is in charge on a caretaker basis, with a bigger name likely to step in next year.
Some officers even saw their authority to appoint a chaplain as a way to get a personal secretary, and chose them for their ability to perform that job, with little regard for their religious qualifications.
