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BREAKING: Obama Makes Recess Appointment, Tells Republicans to Jump off a Bridge
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2012 Jan 4, 2:20am 1,203 views 1 comment
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HousingWatcher
2012 Jan 4, 2:25am
"Here are the facts: The Constitution gives the President the authority to make temporary recess appointments to fill vacant positions when the Senate is in recess, a power all recent Presidents have exercised. The Senate has effectively been in recess for weeks, and is expected to remain in recess for weeks. In an overt attempt to prevent the President from exercising his authority during this period, Republican Senators insisted on using a gimmick called “pro forma†sessions, which are sessions during which no Senate business is conducted and instead one or two Senators simply gavel in and out of session in a matter of seconds. But gimmicks do not override the President’s constitutional authority to make appointments to keep the government running. Legal experts agree. In fact, the lawyers who advised President Bush on recess appointments wrote that the Senate cannot use sham “pro forma†sessions to prevent the President from exercising a constitutional power."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/04/americas-consumer-watchdog
Oh boy, I love it when Obama pisses off the Republicans. How dare Obama make a recess appointment? The nerve of him! Who does he think he is? George W. Bush??
Boehner: Richard Cordray appointment 'unprecedented power grab' by Obama
House Speaker John Boehner fired off a scathing statement following news that the president intends to jam through a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
“This is an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department," Boehner said. "The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution."
Republicans had blocked Cordray's appointment last month, and Boehner said the president's flouting their action could face legal challenges.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/01/boehner-cordray-appt-unprecedented-power-grab-by-obama-109567.html
Oh, and if making recess appointments is "unprecedented," John Bolton (a.k.a. mustache guy on Fox News) did not get the memo.
John Boehner, meet John Bolton
John Bolton, meet John Boehner
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