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newtothegame
03-28-2010, 01:27 AM
Obama Recess Appointments: 15 Names, Including Controversial Labor Lawyer

President Barack Obama, impatient with Congress' pace, made 15 recess appointments to key posts in his administration Saturday, meaning the nominees can serve through next year without Senate confirmation. Among the appointees: Craig Becker (http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/26/dont-do-it-gop-warns-obama-on-labor-board-appointment-during-b/), a controversial union lawyer, named to the National Labor Relations Board.

"The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees," Obama said in a statement (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-positions). "But, if in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions... I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government."

Two appointees to the National Labor Relations Board, Becker, counsel to the Service Employees Union International, and Buffalo, N.Y. labor lawyer, Mark Peace, have drawn the ire of Republicans.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/27/obama-recess-appointments-15-names-including-controversial-lab/?icid=main|main|dl1|link1|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politic sdaily.com%2F2010%2F03%2F27%2Fobama-recess-appointments-15-names-including-controversial-lab%2F

NJ Stinks
03-28-2010, 02:07 AM
Looks like Barack finally realized it's time to play hardball with The Party Of NO. :ThmbUp:

bigmack
03-28-2010, 02:40 AM
Looks like Barack finally realized it's time to play hardball with The Party Of NO. :ThmbUp:
"Whine/Party of NO" - Shit man, any fool can see that knee jerk rubbish on every media outlet/blog/newspaper but a few. Have any fresh material besides regurgitation?

Where's the TSA appointment that's been over a year in the coming? Oh that's right, he dropped out yessaday. Turns out he took in a couple mil too many as a consultant and had to give it back. The guy before that pulled out as well. Weird.

By the bye, has Geithner paid his taxes yet?

Just can't find good help within some groups.

JustRalph
03-28-2010, 03:34 AM
standard procedure for any president now

NJ Stinks
03-28-2010, 03:43 AM
"Whine/Party of NO" - Shit man, any fool can see that knee jerk rubbish on every media outlet/blog/newspaper but a few. Have any fresh material besides regurgitation?



Sorry, Mack. I guess it's been a long day starting in Dubai this morning.

I promise to sharpen my pencil after a good night's rest. :p

DJofSD
03-28-2010, 04:19 AM
Bush did the same thing thought I don't think it was even close to 15.

Tom
03-28-2010, 09:50 AM
This bottom feeder has accomplished nothing without bribes, back room deals and outright lies. He cannot even get his own party to support him.

What is the difference between the zoo and the White House?

You go to the zoo to see an African Lion.
You go to the White House to see a lyin' African.

Robert Goren
03-28-2010, 10:23 AM
You go to the zoo to see an African Lion.
You go to the White House to see a lyin' African. :lol: As right wing humor goes these days, that was pretty good.

Robert Goren
03-28-2010, 10:35 AM
This gets worse with every president. More nominations held up from a vote, more backed-doored in. It used to be unless the guy was under indictment, he got a vote. These days a pro or anti union connection is enough. We need more votes and less grandstanding for the donors back home. JMO

boxcar
03-28-2010, 12:12 PM
Sorry, Mack. I guess it's been a long day starting in Dubai this morning.

I promise to sharpen my pencil after a good night's rest. :p

Whatever you do to that pencil, it will never match the natural point on top of your head.

Boxcar

NJ Stinks
03-28-2010, 12:14 PM
Whatever you do to that pencil, it will never match the natural point on top of your head.

Boxcar

Who woke you up? :p :D

boxcar
03-28-2010, 12:21 PM
Who woke you up? :p :D

Quit flattering yourself. I could be dead and still outwit you or articulately refute any of your nonsense. ;)

Boxcar
P.S. Good afternoon, by the way.

hcap
03-28-2010, 04:50 PM
Looks like Barack finally realized it's time to play hardball with The Party Of NO. :ThmbUp:
That's why we have so many exploding heads here. Haven't seen so many busy posting bull since just before the election.

Used to be 24/7/365 anti-Obama. It has progressed to 60/24/7/365.

Signed....A Socialist/Marxist/Community Organizer/(Alinsky-Ayers) Pal/ Yours truly Tawana.

hcap
03-28-2010, 04:55 PM
Quit flattering yourself. I could be dead and still outwit you or articulately refute any of your nonsense. What makes you think being a pompous buffoon is the same as articulate?

JustRalph
03-28-2010, 06:21 PM
The Hypocrisy is almost funny. I wonder what the difference is now?

http://christopherfountain.com/2010/03/27/the-new-york-times-on-recess-appointments/

The New York Times on Recess appointments in 2006:

Seizing the opportunity presented by the Congressional holiday break, Mr. Bush announced 17 recess appointments — a constitutional gimmick that allows a president to appoint someone when Congress is in recess to a job that normally requires Senate approval. The appointee serves until the next round of Congressional elections.
This end run around Senate confirmation was built into the Constitution to allow the president to quickly fill vacancies that came up when lawmakers were out of town, to keep the government running smoothly in times when travelers and mail moved by horseback and Congress met part time.
Modern presidents have employed this power to place nominees who ran into political trouble in the Senate. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton made scores of recess appointments. But both of them faced a Congress controlled by the opposition party, while the Senate has been under Republican control for Mr. Bush’s entire five years in office.
In some cases, Mr. Bush has used the recess appointment power to rescue egregiously bad selections that would never pass muster on grounds of experience and competence. (Remember last year’s recess appointment of the undiplomatic and Congressionally unacceptable John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations.) In other cases, he has merely sought to avoid logjams that the White House created for itself by refusing to accommodate reasonable Democratic requests for information, documents and consultation.
Among those Mr. Bush unilaterally elevated to important posts this time around was Julie Myers, a government lawyer with ultrathin credentials whom Mr. Bush appointed to head the 15,000-person Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the government’s second largest investigative force.
Also on the list was Ellen Sauerbrey, the unqualified political crony Mr. Bush chose to head the billion-dollar-a-year State Department office that helps coordinate emergency relief efforts for refugees abroad, and whose nomination had stalled for just cause in the Foreign Relations Committee.
Mr. Bush also bypassed Senate hearings on a new deputy defense secretary and for three of the six seats on the Federal Election Commission. The election commission appointees include Hans von Spakovsky, a Justice Department lawyer who overrode the objection of career lawyers to gain approval of a Georgia voter identification plan almost certain to harm black voters.
The White House regularly accuses Senate Democrats of unfairly blocking the president’s nominees, and it is true that one determined senator can freeze an appointment. But Mr. Bush’s record in this area owes less to unreasonable Democrats than to the low caliber of some of his choices, his disinterest in bipartisan consensus and his aversion to any form of accountability, whether to the Senate, the courts or the public.

boxcar
03-28-2010, 06:39 PM
What makes you think being a pompous buffoon is the same as articulate?

Because you're projecting your poor self-image again?

Boxcar
P.S. Watch with the name callin' stuff 'cause PA gonna come down on ya like a wrecking ball. :D

PaceAdvantage
03-28-2010, 08:14 PM
That's why we have so many exploding heads here.Quit with the hyperbole and the name calling. And before you start crying, I warned boxcar earlier today, FIRST, BEFORE YOU.

The only exploding heads I see around here are from the left (you, Sec, mostpost and others)...explosions of joy over this disastrous bill that was just passed. Ya'll are strutting all around here hi-fiving each other over something you will no doubt regret (to yourself of course) in the long run.

boxcar
03-28-2010, 08:42 PM
See: Who says PA ain't fair 'n' balanced? First, a smack down on the right, then one on the left. Are there any centrists out there? :lol: :lol:

Which now reminds me...where's our beloved Chickenhead? Haven't seen him around here in ages? (Earth paging Chick. Are you out there?)

Boxcar