I "reluctantly concur".
It is a difficult task, even more so in this present climate. But there is a need for some effort to be made and if private entreaties down't work to get people to appoint, one could post a thread to ask for applications. I have seen this done previously as well. Regardless, not even trying is certainly not going to solve the problem.
I mean, he could just say "hey guys, I have no clue who to appoint, any ideas/volunteers?" It's not like we're asking him to do anything hard, or anything that he didn't sign up for. And as his fellow Laborite, Senator Kalwejt, said: if he simply doesn't want to be President, he should step down.