Obama Tramples Checks And Balances With Recess Appointment

January 5, 2012 by Sam Rolley

By using recess appointment powers to name the head for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Administration of Barack Obama has tossed aside a long-standing precedent that Obama and other Democrats used against President George W. Bush.

Obama appointed former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray even though the Senate, which has the power to confirm nominees, says it is still in session. The White House, however, contends that Senate Republicans worked so hard to stall Corday’s appointment that Obama had no choice but to bypass them, according to The Washington Times.

“Although the Senate is not in recess, President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

When the Senate is not in session, the Constitution gives the President power to make appointments without confirmation. Traditionally, it was understood that the Senate would have to be adjourned for longer than 10 days, and a legal opinion during the Administration of President Bill Clinton said a recess must be at least three days. Obama acted just one day after the Senate held a session.

Obama and fellow Democrats cited the three-day rule in 2007 and 2008 when they used the strategy to prevent Bush from making his own recess appointments. Back then, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had the Senate convene twice a week in pro forma sessions to keep Bush’s hands tied.

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http://moniquer7 Merlin

He has been trampling Congress, the Constitution, the nation, and the American people since day one.

JON

That is total BS

JimO

Hitler had Nuremberg Laws : Obama has Executive Orders.
Hitler had Reichstag Fire Decree : Obama has Direct Appointments.
Hitler’s game plan (Mein Kampf) : Obama’s Audacity of Hope.

They are both the same road to ruin.

JON

That is the typical ramblings of a person who is not reality based.
eddie47d

What JimO said could be made against any President and probably more so. JimO has a mind of JellO.

http://liberyalearts john p.

ALL THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR Obama feel the same.everyone was
taken in by his smooth talk .now you see the man for what he is.
he is a snake . he will be voted in again because there are people
who listen to all local news .they are the problem they lie to
everyone.they tell everyone how great Obama is and
people be leave them .and here we are i steal want to see his birth
place .

Kinetic1

john p,
Flights to Hawaii are available at any major airport. Bon Voyage!

Think about it

Well unless he’s going on vacation i wouldn’t go to Hawaii, if he wants to go visit Obamas birth place he should just fly on over to Kanya, that would be in Africa.

nurseboston

I just visited the hospital where the president was born in Honolulu. Yes, Hawaii is one of the 50 states of the United States of America! Sorry to say that he is a United States citizen!

gnafu

It appears that Obama has declared himself “King.” Plus, I think that “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” does more than look into credit card use/abuse. And, that is where the Conservatives bulked – not because of Cordrey but the Bureau itself. In part: “Like a neighborhood cop on the beat, the CFPB supervises banks, credit unions, and other financial companies, and we will enforce Federal consumer financial laws.” Now, that sounds rather reasonable but what else does CFPB do? Where does FDIC come in on this Bureau? I thought FDIC monitored big banks and made sure they were following proper guidelines. But, the point here is that Obama has used his Executive Powers to name Cordrey to position of watchdog without Congress input while Congress had been in session in proper time to be included. There was more to ironed out before naming a ‘watchdog.’ What kind of power does CFPB give a president? To approve more spending? Hmmm
Chris

Obamais a tyrant…plain and simple.
skyraider 6

Constitutional Law Prof. for 10 years! What school? Where are his students? In jail?

JON

That school would be The University of Chicago Law School. From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year.
Have YOU done anything as impressive as that? Hmmm?

skyraider 6

Was he a licensed attorney at the time? He was denied the ability to take the bar exam I believe. Do you really truly believe this person who uses false names, false birth places and falsified documents? Did you ever investigate him? I did not become the president under false pretenses so my qualifications are not in question. Barry is the topic here. Can you look into his prior records…no you cannot…he has had them all sealed..why would he do that?
Think about it

Maybe it’s because he is a liar and there are no real records, Hey skyraider 6 maybe we shoiuld try and use somebody else’s social security number. You would think that Big Bad John Boehner would use the false SSN to have the liar an cheat removed from office, what a loser.
Flashy

As to Pres. Obama and his license to practice law. He was licensed, and voluntarily surrendered the license because his job no longer required it to be active. Common practice.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/Obama-Law-License.htm
big wyo

common flahy thats crap. have a good friend that is still atty in New york and would not give up license just incase he went back and wanted to practice again. The bar isnt easy to pass.
NEXT BULLSH@T EXCUSE
resign barry resign

David

Bush pushed thru several recess appointments, including a couple of poor choices, but I didn’t hear a peep from the Republicans about how he was abusing the system. I say suck it up and let it go.

JON

They can’t suck it up and let it go. I wish they could. But as you can see by what their post, they can’t. They present themselves as a group of hostile, bigoted people. They can’t even look past their own ignorance. It’s probably because they don’t like the African American side of Obama’s heritage. It’s very sad. It’s also part of the reason for the downfall of America. They just keep feeding at the trough of their false Gods: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michele Bachmann. They’re fat from eating too much fear.
Peace!

wlllbjr5

The disgrace in all this is the fact the Democratic party did not vet this candidate at all! Another
Disrace is the fact that the Democratic Party did not even attempt to field any opposition to prez bam
obummer this election cycle! The Democratic Party deserves to become a relic of failure and to
immediately faid into complete obscurity. The Democratic Party is nothing more than a “Communist”
organization irregardless of whatever name they go by whether that be ” ‘progressive,’ ‘Liberal,’ ” or
what other limp name they can come up with! If the Democratic Party has any integrity what-so-ever they
will demand prez bam obummer step down and remove him from the Democratic Ticket altogether and nominate
a candidate outside of his administration and the current Democratic Legislative elected delegation and
Judicial Appointees. Other wise it is the duty of the America people to do away with the Communist Party.
There is another Unknown candidate in the Democratic Race for Democratic Nomination fo President
although he is conservative, he is naive about the United Nations. His Name is “Randall Terry.”

Kinetic1

willbjr5,
“although he is conservative…” Conservative? He’s a REPUBLICAN! Randall Terry is a “Pro Life” activist who lost primary elections in both New York and Florida, both on the Republican ticket. This is just one more piece of political theater for a man who will do anything for attention and a group of like minded people who will do anything to make their views the law of the land. There is nothing about this man, nor you apparently that qualifies either to represent the Democratic party.

Stephen

What should Congress do when the President breaks the law? Impeach? Where’s our justice system? November cannot come fast enough. The House should begin proceedings immediately. I think Boehner has the balls to go forward.

Think about it

Boehner is a f-in drunkin coward, and he wants what Obama wants.
obxyankee

I agree with Stephen, why don’t we hear from our congress about impeaching a president who is openly violating his oath of office? By the time November 2012 is here, so much damage will have been done to our constitutional republic, and yes – the fraud will be so rampant in King Obama’s favor – that Americans will be unable to stop it.

DaveR

Others have already stated why Congress (Boehner) won’t seek impeachment — they have no hope of a conviction by the current Senate.

A better approach would be for Congress members to investigate Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of president, and following a thorough investigation, to issue a formal report and resolution to that he is not and never was qualified to be president because he is not a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution, and to demand his immediate removal from office and to declare all official actions by him void ab initio since he never qualified to hold such power.
Think about it

Please please please wake up, they already know that Obama is ineligible, they don’t want to change what he has done, they want these new laws for when they take over again, if they take over again, no matter there all the same.

45caliber

“Don’t do as I do – do as I say.”
Randy

I’m with Charles on this one. If you can’t see a difference in the way the Constitution is being shreaded by BO, then you are wanting a Communist dictatorship government in the US. In the case of GWB, little games were always played by the Dems to try and make him look to be incompetent. If it weren’t holding up any legislation, it would be a constant barrage of accusations and investigations by Committees to errode the confidence of the Republican Party by the Dems. This was found in a memo sent by Jay Rockefeller to his Dem friends to constantly play games in order to regain the Dems power in Congress and the Presidency.

Dems are once again playing games, but because they don’t want to lose power. Remember when BO made the statement, “Get over it! We won!”, to tell the country that you had better get in line with his way of thinking. Yet with the 2010 elections, he refused to admit that people didn’t like his ideas and it was going to be full speed with his agenda once again. This man is arrogant and refuses to take a hint.

When this man and his administration can declare that he has more to fear from someone that disagrees with him than a Middle Eastern terrorist, there is something wrong. When these people can declare a person that owns guns, carries a Bible, or is against abortion, a domestic terrorist; there is something to be worried about. He has described a majority of people in this country and has more or less declared war on them. This man doesn’t care who he offends in this country. If you can’t see the way BO and the Dems have gone around the law and shreaded the Constitution, then how warm is the sand on your head in that hole?
http://personallibertydigest Frank J.

i did and you didn’t post it . WHY?
Sirian

Here we go again, the same number that can’t see through the fog. Alright, it’s as simple as this – THEY ARE PLAYING BOTH SIDES AGAINST THE MIDDLE – and we’re the middle, GET IT?? Sheezzz!!! What’s wrong with everyone? The Democrats play their game with their jock straps, uh, I mean supporters while the Republicans do the exact same thing. This has been going on for a very long time and they will continue to do so. You know, just enough to keep us “happy”. Look at both sides of the coin people, you just might be surprised how effective they – both parties – have been.
s c

This is the same approach used by Germans when Hitler was trying to come to power. What are you afraid of? What can go wrong? He’ll clean up the counbtry? He knows all the words, and he has the plans to get things done.
Obviously, Hitler had some quirks that were also
suicidal. Time after time, herds of semi-humans refuse to believe that because something hasn’t worked anywhere in the world doesn’t mean it won’t work here, and ESPECIALLY now that we finally have ‘god’ in the W H.
THIS is what that ‘fighter for the middle class’ really means, folks. This is the SAME yahoo who has done nothing but DIVIDE America, and he DARES to think he can run a campaign that didn’t use a budget. That’s not a record. THAT’S an EXCUSE.
You’ll get a better deal from blind pigs. At least they have a functional sense of smell. The current herd of wannabe semi-swine and semi-anacondas will slowly eradicate each other.
jopa

James called Obama the Dictator in Chief for the appointments he made.However when Reagan was in office he averaged 30 appointments a year, Bush around ten and Obama seven.I guess Reagan would have to be considered a close relative of Hitler and Mussolini for his actions.These appointments are nothing out of the ordinary unless you want to pretend it was never done before by your own party to rile up the wackos.

Flashy

James…you have to realize…if the Right skirts the law, deals with enemies of our counry, fixes and rigs elections, uses the powers of the state to torutre, usurps elected officals … it’s all right.

If the Moderates do anything which they don’t like…as in make and obey laws…it’s treasonous.

Get it?

Brad

Why Flashy,

ACORN, SEIU the AFL-CIO are already working behind the sceens to get their minnions on the move to vote and vote often. For you sir you can’t see the forest for the trees are in your way.
Flashy

LOl….how many cases of voter fraud have there been the past 10 years? And look closely and you’ll see the ones that were brought? Why…guess who the fraud was for?
Brad

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/21/officials-plead-guilty-in-new-york-voter-fraud-case/
Brad

http://rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html
Brad

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/judge-gives-maximum-and-fines-acorn-5000-for-illegal-voter-registration-scheme/
Brad

http://www.acornvoterfraud.com/
Brad

Flashy,

I can go on, just asking, LMAO at you dude…
Kinetic1

Brad,
I’ll give you the first one and I must point out that it makes it clear that when fraud does occur it comes from both sides (sorry Flashy), but most of the others are just a re-hash of a false story line made up by FOX News. Voter fraud requires that there is an organized attempt to place false votes and affect the outcome of an election. Most of the “voter fraud” cases you listed are just instances of individuals attempting to pass false registration forms for financial gain. Among those, the only case that suggests any organization is just a violation of a law that does not allow paying a bonus to a registration worker based on the number of forms turned in. These cases rarely lead to any kind of tampering with the actual election.

http://. Big Daddy

IF YOU MORONS CALL OBOZZO’S REIGN THE MARCH OF PROGRESS i HOPE YOU ARE PREPARED FOR THE TRAIN OF MARCH TO RUN OVER YOU. THIS MORON AND HIS CRONIES WILL DESTROY THIS COUNTRY IF HE IS NOT STOPPED AND SOON.
HE IS POISED TO DECLARE MARSHALL LAW AND KILL THE ELECTION OF 2012 TO ALLOW HIM TO DECLARE HIMSELF DICTATOR.
THE MAN, AND I USE THAT TERM LOOSLY, IS AN AVOWED MARXIST AND IS WORKING ON AN AGENDA TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY. HE SAID SO IN KANSAS JSUT RECENTLY. ONE OF HIS COLLEGE CLASSMATES ADMITTED THAT IN COLLEGE HE WAS A VOCAL SUPPORTER OF MARXISM.
WHEN WILL YOU MORONS WAKE UP.
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BigBadJohn

Better lay off of that cool aid……

Lastmanstanding

Why is that so hard to believe? Look at everything that has happened “gradually” over the last 100 years.

The US Constitution has been shot full of holes by nearly every politician and our own govt.

Just another persons take on what he sees…perhaps he wants the same freedom and liberty that you and I do…for my kids and grandkids.

Do NOT be so trusting of those in control.
Don

bbj, how big an bad do you really think you are, you don’t even rate capital letters in you name, are you sleeping with o boze o ????
eddie47d

Big Daddy doesn’t even deserved to be called little man with his sound bite. There will be elections this year so all the liars hanging around please put down the crack pipe. No dictator,No Martial Law so NOT EVEN a good try little man!

Brad

Big Daddy,

The vast majority who post here have their eye’s wide open and see the danger that Ohmama is. Unfortuently there are those who post here believe Ohmama is right but we believe he’s wrong and we’ll use our votes on November 6th to take him out. That’s if he doesn’t make it onto the ballot in Georgia or New Hampsier, there’s court proceedings challenging his eligibility to hold the position of POTUS since he has a documents African father and an American mother. In previous SC rulings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2470873/posts to be eligible for the POTUS he would have needed a father who was a US citizen and a mother who was a US citizen to be a natural born citizen of the US.

smilee

That BS is so old it does not even stink anymore!!

Stephen

Didn’t I see the Obuminator put his hand on a Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution…so help me God? Doesn’t everyone get sworn into office? Where’s the integrity in our leadership? Why is it always politics as usual and the American Public getting burned on every deal? Where are the true American Leaders? Politicians are not leaders.

Flashy

Ummm…just a minor point. What court has ruled Pres. obama to be in violation of the Constitution? Marbury V Madison states the Courts are the interpreters of the Constitution…not you, not me, not the TPers, not the Left.

DaveR

Good point, Flashy, but then, why did Obama and Holder themselves decide they would not support DOMA? Why did they not take the case to the courts to decide whether or not DOMA was constitutional? They have elevated themselves to be laws unto themselves, just as they did in refusing to prosecute the New Black Panthers following their intimidation of white voters in Philadelphia.
eddie47d

No proof of NBP intimidation case closed get over it!
Brad

Eddie what do you call this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
Flashy

I dunno..maybe the same reaons why the relgious right and the conservative states decided not to?
eddie47d

Now that is at least the 11th time I’ve seen that video and low and behold still no intimidation. Really lame propaganda for your A Team or are you a part of the Desperado gang searching for a clue?
TML

“Marbury V Madison states the Courts are the interpreters of the Constitution”

Seems to me there is something very wrong with citing a court case in which the court asserts it’s own power as the only interpreter of the Constitution. Kind of like the fox guarding the hen house if you ask me.

Anyone who can read, can know what the Constitution says, and if he is in violation of it or not. Although, I agree that someone should step up and take him to court over it. In fact, he should be impeached for violating what he swore to uphold.
Flashy

The case has stood and been recognized for 200+ years as sound and wise. I guess if you disagree with having the Court decide on what is and is not Constitutional…i can take the role . What do you want me to rule on? Not a problem. I for one, object to you deciding. So that leaves me.
Stephen

Hey, when it comes down to it, he’s a public servant and we the people are the boss. I make a motion that we fire him for not doing his job as his contract with us states that he must do his job with specified restrictions. He is not above the laws of OUR land.
Flashy

Come the first tuesday in Novemeber, you can vote to fire Pres. Obama. good luck with any of the bunch running for the GOP nomination. Whoa…

Me? I think President Obama has earned another four years. Then, if we can convince frmr Pres. Clinton to run for another term…we may just start having this nation recover from the disasterous condition began by Reagan culminating in Bush/Cheney.

Charles

Do we really need any more examples of what a dictator, looks like.? The constitution is only of use when it pleases the anointed one. If he doesn’t like it’s provisions and he ‘can’t wait’ he just goes around Congress. Exactly what he,as Senator, decried about Pres. Bush. We no longer have a President, we have a King. God help us all.
Kara

i’m afraid of anyone who is not afraid of obama.

Alex

That is why the Reich Wingers are also known as Fright Wingers—you live in fear and you live on fear. Grow up, PROGRESS, and join thelong march of civilization.
Stop living in fear.

Capitalist at Birth

I fear no man, especially those who espouse the long march mantra. I will be waiting for you Alex with my two thousand rounds of ammunition, my books, and my 6 month’s supply of food and water. Are you ready to face me?
Think about it

Cap you should keep your amount of ammo and food supply to your self, only you and your family should know those numbers.
Stay safe.
Brad

Alex only believees in the NWO, government should controll everything and provide all. Alex that’s called communism it’s been tried and has utterly failed as a system of government.
101stRECON68

Oh my you ARE so clever; Reich Wingers, Teabaggers, Faux News. So very clever of your type. Keep throwing those labels out and one day it will land on the wrong person. Why don’t you try engaging in some realistic dialogue instead of throwing slanders towards those you refuse to talk with on an intellectual level?
eddie47d

…but it’s okay to call the opposition fleabaggers,Alinsky trolls,mainstream media lemmings and Obummer/Oblammer. Nice try in intellectualism Recon 68.

BigBadJohn

LOL Too funny

You seem to ignore the fact that GWB had 171 recess appointments with 99 being permanent positions. He effectively stacked the courts with conservatives – which why they ruled that corporations are people.

If recess appointments are tramping checks and balance republicans truly trample the Constitution a LOT worse than Democrats.

http://Personalliberty Tony

To BigBadJohn:
I hate to have to say this, but you’re right sir. It’s total hypocrisy what the Repubs. are saying. Thanks!!

Brad

And I suppose you don’t care what the rats are doing to include the rino’s take a look at the national debt clock posted you’ll get the idea.

Brad

BBJ,

Two wrongs don’t make a right and your statement tells me you don’t care that this country is going down the tubes financialy and the US gov has us so far in the red they (US gov) have us spending 100% of GDP. Just look at the gross debt to GDP ratio, you’ll get the point http://www.usdebtclock.org/

BigBadJohn

Brad I agree totally.

But you need to put this in perspective, with Bush’s tax cuts, two unfunded wars, an unfunded prescription drug plan and TARP bail outs, Obama inherited a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit and 10 trillion dollar national debt. 1.5 Trillion time 4 years puts us exactly where we are 15 trillion in debt.

Simple solution un-do everything that republicans did when they controlled congress for 12 years.
Brad

BBJ,

What a lot of people neglect to see, the congress sets the US gov budgits, Bush II final republican budgit had deficit spending coming down. When the dems took controll of congress in 2007 Bush’s last two budgits hit new levels, 1.2 and 1.3 trilion in deficit spending, why he didn’t veto each spending bill I have no idea. When Bush left office in early 2009 our national debt stood at 10.6 trillion what is it today 15.195 trillion and Ohmama’s administration wants to push it higher by another 1.2 trillion. So, when does the spending stop and we get our fiscal house in order and pay down the debt? Inquiring minds want to know…

DaveR

Gee, I didn’t know Bush was president back in 1818, did you? The US Sup Ct ruled that corporations were persons long before Bush was president. You can start to read about those decisions here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Flashy

Errrr…that case decided that corporations can enter and be bound by contracts. Without that ability, there would be no corporaqtions as it meant every shareholder had to sign the contract for it to be binding.

Nice try though…

Charles

Heart broken – but does he care? I think not. I will continue to call on the Lord to open his eyes, and we will see who wins in the end. In the end, the G_d of heaven wins!!! The book of Revelations is very clear on this.
Flashy

LOL….a minority in the Senate is blocking appointments. not because they object to the appointee…but because they don’t like the law passed. So who is in violation? Congress passed the law…yet a few feel it shouldn’t apply?

So they used a gimmick which on its face is transparently fake. Obama called ‘em on it. OK…so let McConnell go before the people and explain why he is supporting doing nothing. There is no other reason…by McConnell’s own words he wasn’t objecting to the people themselves.

Obama made a recess appointment to vital posts. Appointments held up by the GOP in the Senate for reasons other than the person appointed. Obama has used recess appointments less than any modern presidency.

So he called the GOP out. Go ahead GOP…explain why you are supporting lettng vital posts unfilled because you have no reason other than to continue to put politics before nation.

Yes… I would have screamed if it had been Bush II doing it. Wonder why he didn’t? hmmm…maybe because he didn’t have a bunch of yahoos in Congress placing politics and self before nation. ya think?

FreedomFighter

Totally incorrect again, you have your facts all wrong again. Jesh man dont you even try to get it right>

Laus Deo
Semper Fi

Sirian

FreedomFighter,
Woo, hang on there now, Flashy has an outstanding batting average of .004, no need to go getting frustrated. . .
Flashy

OK FF…as you view it…what are the facts on the recess appointments?
FreedomFighter

There was no recess.

Laus Deo
Semper Fi
Flashy

The gimmick ? LOL … give me a break. So what was it? No one around, no business conducted, the chamber and committees not doing anything…

OK…let McConnell and the GOP go before the cameras and say “we weren’t around, no one was dong anything, but we pulled a fast one and weren’t in recess. And we’re griping because we have no objection to the person, we just want to make the law worthless.”

OK…go ahead Mitch….see how many votes that wins for a Congress with lower approval ratings that Hugo Chavez. bet the rank and file up for re-election will love that one (seriously…Chavez has a higher approval rating than Congress…lol)
Thor

Yo! Flashy: a dictator by any other name is still just a dictator. The ultimate question here is ‘are you (and your ilk) willing to forfeit your lives in exchange for my freedom?’ Whatever your answer, you lose.
Kinetic1

FF,
Parliamentary semantics. It would be like me calling into work each morning from my cabana on the beach and saying “I’m on it boss” just before my scuba lesson. When all they are doing is gaveling in and gaveling out without doing any business, without even discussing business it’s clear that they are not really in session.
eddie47d

Freedom Fighter will never comprehend that Flashy. He’s too busy in the twilight zone. He should be asking himself if no one is there to vote then apparently no one is working on the Hill. Looks like the President was working so once again Congress dropped the ball and deserves that dismal low approval rating.
Brad

Flashy,

By senate rules any one sitting on the floor of the senate means their still in session. By Ohmama curcumventing the senate only a day tells us that Ohmama has no respect for the US rule of law including senate rules which he was part of…
Flashy

As i stated…if Mitch thinks it was wrong, let him go to the People and explain why the gimmick is being used since there is little objection to the appointees…and the gimmick is being used to nullify laws designed to protect the Middle Class and consumers.

Let’s see what the voters think about that. Wonder if those members up for re-election will agree with Mitch. Scott Brown doesn’t … lol.

And if Mitch and the gang thinks the recess appointments are invalid? I’m sure he will be able to take the dance to the courts … think he will ?
Brad

Well rules are rules and Ohmama did break them evan when he was part of the senate. As for Mr. Cordray it’s the senates understanding that the position doesn’t fall under senate jurisdiction and can basically do as they please with an unlimited budgit. With that being said your argument is mute and Ohmama is expanding his power base beyond our constitutional checks and balances.
eddie47d

Then if what you said is true it would be mote under any Presidency not just OBAMA’s. Then correct the problem created by both parties or you solve nothing.
smilee

The Constitution trumps the senate rules and the Constitution only says when the senate is in recess the president is within his rights to make recess appointments. If Mitch thinks pro forma sessions are actually Constitution then let him take Obama to court, of course, if the court will not hear the case or find for Obama then Mitch would look like a fool especially since by filibustering a vote when he says the man is more that qualified but he does not like the law that the was duly enacted, talk about disrespect for the law, Mitch certainly is guilty of that by his own admission
Brad

Hey Flashy,

Answer this one simple question, why is Harry Reid the Senate majority leader sitting on 25 house bills and won’t bring them up for discussion and a vote?
eddie47d

The votes/bills usually have to have a clear chance of being passed before they are considered for debate.
Flashy

As Eddie pointed out. They can’t even get those atrocities out of Committeemuch less to the floor. I don’t see the GOP in the Senate screaming about moving the bills…do you?
Capitalist at Birth

You should have learned by now, not to even read Flashy’s posts much less waste your time responding.
Ted Crawford

Come on Freedom! You know Progressives don’t waste time on unimportant things like reading bill or getting facts! They have a whole Country to “Fundamentally Transform”. Little things like this just get in the way and slow down our arrival at their Socialist Utopia!

Brad

Flashy,

It was the rats in the senate during clinton then Bush IIs tenure that designed and implemented the scheme, the senates still in session, it’s stated in the article if you would care to read it again. Evan senate rats confirm it and was used to prevent GWB from making his appointments. All the people are asking is the POTUS to use common sense and appoint people for the common good of the country instead ideology and a political party and or cause. What we have been getting known communists, union attorney’s and Sal Alinsky wanabe’s.
http://personallibertydigest Frank J.

flashy is just a jerk and irrevelant.

Michael

Flashy may not have the support of the bloggers here, but the POTUS sure does as he pleases and the US citizens and the mighty US Congress sit on their hands and do nothing.
smilee

Let the republicans take it to court, If Obama is wrong then het will be proven wrong, my guess is they won’t cause if they loose and Obama is right then they will be exposed of their shenanigans and can no longer play polities with it and my guess is they will not. Rhetoric is cheap and if they do not take it to court it shows they do not have the guts that Obama has shown here

http://www.motorcarsfinancial.com Brad

Bush had a democratic congress the last two years in office and Harry read kept taking a recess every two weeks so he couldn’t.
big wyo

VITAL POSTS are sh@tting me – you idiot. An eternal line of worthless big goverment in a newly formed unconstitutional bureau. Oh my god how did we survive before Obummer and his czars????

JTB

Come on November! Get this man out of our White House!

smilee

And if he gets reelected then what are you going to do????????????

Peter

This is another example of Mr. O conducting Civil War against the middle class tax payer..

Sandor Geza

“President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The only arrogance in this whole process is the continuing obstructionism by Republicans. The attempted dictatorship of Republicans who are doing everything against the wishes of the majority of Americans (just check public opinion polls) obviously has to be overcome with extreme measures. Recess appointments are a Presidential obligation when every effort he has made to make life better for the middle class has been blocked by Republican arrogance. That is not Democracy.

Ken

We live in a “republic,” so who cares what the “majority” want. We have a constitution. So Obama does the same thing as Bush, who does the same as Clinton, who does the same as Bush……etc. It’s WRONG.
Danny Kirkpatrick

Are you insane? This is not about the Republicans or the Democrats, this is about a sitting president behaving like a king. No one, Rep. or Dem. should allow this. If you do nothing now it will set a president, it will make the Constitution irrelevant. IF, if we can get Obama out of office, the next president will have the power of a king. Please think about what he just did here, if we do nothing but complain, he will see this as what WE THE PEOPLE want him to do. NO SIR, it is NOT what WE THE PEOPLE want ANY sitting constitutionally elected by freedom loving people to do.
Bus

One power congress has that it ought to consider is the power of impeachment…By now the list of High Crimes and Misdomeaners is longer than that seaman stained dress used to indict the former Democrat who had more respect for the orifice than for his office.
Greg

You should learn the laws of this country before moving here. If you wanted to live in a dictatorship, you should move to one.
eddie47d

Danny says,”if we can get Obama out of office” everything will apparently be hunky dorey. That was also said about G Bush. Ken says,”who cares what the majority thinks”. Oh really! This sounds like more of the same no matter who is elected. Who cares what OWS thinks or who cares what the Tea Party thinks or who cares about what anyone thinks. Too many folks out there promoting themselves and not the nation. Kicking someone out of office won’t change the appointment problem and it will continue no matter who is elected. Get them to change the rules or timeline on appointments or all this hair pulling is useless.
Kinetic1

eddie47d,
Well put. The problem is not the appointment, but all the game playing. Our elected officials spend so much time looking for clever ways to get around the rules that nothing is getting done. Of course, if you’re looking to keep the country down to improve your parties odds in the next Presidential election it makes all sorts of sense.

Kinetic1

Peter,
The President has been fighting to put the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in order for years now to help protect the middle class. If anyone has been “conducting Civil War” it is the Republicans in Congress who will do anything to protect Wall Street. No, I’m not happy with the method, but after years of game playing by the Republicans what was he supposed to do? As for the claim that President Obama has “Trampled Checks And Balances” there are many questions about the Congress’ actions in holding pro-forma sessions to prevent the White House from exercising their legal powers. In the end no one wins with the current game of partisan gridlock.

http://yahoo scout

Do you honestly think this guy was appointed to PROTECT the consumer. We in more trouble than anticipated.

James

The Dictator & Chief is working hard.

FreedomFighter

Dont forget to get your GAS MASKS, dont want them using the GAS of PEACE on you, makes it easy to take your guns put you on FEMA BUS.

Laus Deo
Semper Fi

USAF VET

Shoot the tires out of the bus from ambush. Won’t be going anywere any too soon that way.

Robert Smith

Let’s deal with some facts folks.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment: “According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments.[4]”

It appears Bush is the king of recess appointments. Let me know when Obama gets into the same league.

Rob

FreedomFighter

Bush is not in office, its 2012, please try to keep up.

Laus Deo
Semper Fi
Deerinwater

RIGHT! It does not matter who’s “potato” it is , until it be comes “your” potato.

I understand that about “conservatives”. Everything is fair game until you have to swallow some of your own medicine. What you subscribe for “others” is not what you would subscribe for yourselves. Then you run and hiding behind some elevated and lofty biblical phrase, professing your Christianity.

From the Book of George; “Don’t pull anything you might have to eat”

Pull your gloves on, it’s going to be a long year and expect to taste some blood. No more Mr. Nice Guy with you and your friends.
http://windstream Concerned American Citizen

You are right about the blood but you had best have some very thick and high gloves of your own since this administration and their radical supporters are going to be up to their elbow’s in the mess that they have created. The conservative ‘s ( as well as the Christian’s that you like to poke so much fun at ) will have some boots on and are ready to wade up to their necks to make darned sure that you deerinwater will be underwater with all the rest who have been bound and determined to destroy this country for your own purposes.
joe1cr

Our country has been taken over by our first communist dictator. He has no need of congress nor their approval as he does his end runs around the constitution.
His justice dept. is a joke ,the supreme court and lower federal courts are simply denying all law suits filed against this royal dictator in case after case.
Let’s face it, they the liberal socialist communist democrats now rule this country and did not have to fire a shot to do it.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
101stRECON68

You idiot! So that makes it right because other jackasses did it too? Can’t get that party system cocaine from between your ears can you? Don’t know about you, but I have had enough of all these baboons in DC.and their little parlor tricks of circumventing the Constitution whenever they feel like it. Time to flush the toilet. In Texas, we once used the Battle Cry “Remember the Alamo”. This time around I think it should be “Remember the Constitution”.
liberty49

I could not agree with you more! This dictator MUST be defeated! The new Battle cry of the TEA PARTY PATRIOTS should be “REMEMBER THE CONSTITUTION AND REMEMBER WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY, WE ARE A REPUBLIC!
richard keeney

maybe congress thinks it’s o’k to ignore constitution , but we the people don’t and thanks for your correct perspective we are a republic , send e-mail to tea party.net they don’t know , all they’ll corrspondents i get from them use we are a democracy
http://aol.com firedup

Wait a freaking minute – these douchebags are talking about a second term of trashing OUR country – when HE should’nt be there in the first place!! WTF – How come THAT has’nt been satisfactorily resolved? He did’nt prove that he’s a legal citizen the FIRST TIME ROUND – What the hells going on and he has’nt yet and they’re actually considering trying to pull the wool over everyones eyes again? For the worthless,perpetual welfare recipients who voted him in in the first place i guess it would’nt matter where the hell you were from as long as you keep sending money that they don’t have to do anything for – Like any other clown they will continue to pull their crap until someone makes them stop – He feels he’s above the laws that we all adhere too – IMPEACH NOW!!
eddie47d

The point Smith is making is that you don’t give a rat’s patute when the Republicans do it and do it more often. Your minds are shut tighter than a steel trap and are entangled in the left/right paradigm. No appointment should take as long as they do and vacancies should be filled as soon as possible. The left does it an the right does it and all for political posturing. If you don’t like it get off the left/right seesaw.Demand accountability and reform on the issue or accept it the way it is.
Flashy

Ahhh shucks. let’s just wait until 2017 and then see if there is a GOP President…then we can hammer the recess appointment issue. That way, we’ll have both the wacked Right and the moderates wanting change. Right? I mean, the TPers and the Right will be against it no matter who sits in the WH.

uh huh … sure

Look..all the GOP has to do is come up with a reason why the person is unqualified for the appointment. If not, explain to the People why they are refusing to allow voting on the appointments.

And if they want to use the gimmick they are insisting on…i.e. the Senate is not in “recess”…then show us what work is being done during this time of “non-recess”.

Is it any wonder the Congress has a lower approval rating than Hugo Chavez of Venezula? Such is the GOP way of “working” for compromise….
daniel

Flashy, eddie makes more sense than you do. And yes I do disagree with a lot of what he says. Get off the Dem vs. Rep. merry go round. It is a nowhere ride. I’ve watched both parties do the same things for years. They just get us caught up in their game of gotcha.
duaner

Get your sorry putrid but off of this site. go hobnob with madcow and nasty eddied on msnbc. I am sick of you and all the other liberal pukes than pollute this site. Go f yourself since you are so good at doing it.
WickedPickle

… And I’m getting tired of this “Birth” thing.. “He did’nt prove that he’s a legal citizen the FIRST TIME ROUND”

If it’s true then PER our constitution, he should be ousted (with prejudice) but don’t you think every Republican in the Nation would be on this like flies on $hit if there were even the slightest degree of truth to it? Instead they keep their bureaucratic mouth shut (even during the primaries) and simply allows the innuendos and propaganda flourish while they wash their hands of the entire affair.. And don’t tell me that the Democrats have more imagination and where to do in hiding such a gigantic secret.. Any one with the guts and the proof would have the president up on charges but they don’t so they won’t.. and another thing.. “The worthless, perpetual welfare recipients”.. Seems the right wants to sacrifice the true needy by concentrating on and seeking the destruction of the welfare system (something that all charitable people are known for) because of the few who abuse the system that the federal g’ment allows by ignoring these fraudulent percentages. I myself am angry at these bottom feeders, but not to the point of killing of the true needy in order to make a point. DEMAND that the g’ment find and convict these low life’s who live in chateaus and drive caddies and use tax payer money to by both illegal and prescription drugs.. Their out there and their obvious if only the feds gave a $hit. I sure as hell wouldn’t want on my conscious the elimination of these oldsters and needy because I’m pissed at fraudulent users.. Eliminate them through the process of law so that those in need do not suffer. But then that would eliminate all the tin men in the Nation because we would all have a heart now wouldn’t we, instead of all the inhumanity that’s being spewed…
John Woodbury

Hey Dishwater and Fat Eddie and assorted liberal nut cases;
Sure President Clinton and President Bush did it, but they played by the rules. Your freaking leader is not anywhere close to the rules, that is what we are talking about. So your childish “you did it too” is not in question, we would like him to play by the rules. BTW we a Representative Democracy i.e. a republic. If O has his way, we will be a Banana Republic.
eddie47d

I was speaking of the lack of accountability John so take that banana out of your mouth.
mark

No, Robert Smith not an idiot. He is just pointing out the incredible hypocrisy and duplicity of conservatives when it comes to criticizing liberals and progressives for doing the exact same thing they often do. Liberals and progressives are frequently guilty of this very same hypocrisy themselves. Not admitting that everyone involved in the political process from all parties from voters to leaders are hypocrites is what’s idiotic.
TML

I think you’re missing the point. Obama just disregarded the rule of law, and blatantly disregarded the Constitution, to appoint someone he wanted. I think that puts him in the same league.
Bob Jeffrey

If Sen. McConnell doesn’t like the appointment, stop filbustering!! Let the Senate vote!
Flashy

Errr..what law did he violate? What standard of the Constitution which bars recess appointments?
DJ

” A lawless banana republic in the making- this isn’t about the appointee, it,s about the way the CFPB will have a blank check to spend taxpayer dollars with ZERO congressional oversight and also can’t be challenged in the courts, all of which DEMOCRATS wrote into the law.

http://mrctv.org/videos/revealing-story-obamas-recess-appointments-fox-news-and-charles-krauthammer
gardenlady

he still has to GO!!!! we want our country back, not in pieces if he stays in office!! He is out to destroy this country any way he can! does not appreciate the Constitution, just out to ruin it..
Les

Might try reading the Constitution Sir; makes no difference Rep. or Dem. its a violation of the Separation of Powers, because Congress is in fact dysfunctional due to the likes of Harry Reid and friends is no reason to ignore our Constitution which is not a living breathing document as most Progressives believe.
equinimity

The point here is….Congress is NOT in recess! Why are people so willing to relinquish all their liberty and self-government to a dictator?
Paul Ouijan

Looks like you a hit a nerve! Most of the respondents of this blog/site/service are so blinded by hatred of President Obama that they are unable to address any of the long-standing, real-world threats to Liberty. The rebuttals all seem to devolve into teenage sarcasm. The same attitudes and behavior that have deranged the Left have come to our own house.

Particularly surprising is how many of these self-described Constitutional “experts” do not seem to have read ANY of that document, except possibly the Second Amendment.

The consequences of these errors are already grave. They are turning the Libertarian movement into a cranks’ club and debasing the value of Conservative philosophy and action. Our support or opposition to various issues are completely determined by the press’ loosy-goosy view of the parties. We no longer make thoughtful, impossible-to-ignore arguments that win minds and hearts, but simply spit venom at our neighbors as proxies for the politicians we loathe. The tone and precision of our rhetoric is already close to that of the Marxists. Overall this is not a good development under ANY circumstance, even in extremis.

I plead for a little more clear thought about these issues. The “Gays, Guns, and God” political fights will take care of themselves. Error can be easily corrected; malice, not so easily. We are the ones who must again be “the adults” and take responsibility for cleaning up the national mess. It may be unfair that we are the ones charged with the sanitation detail in King Augeas’ stables, but if we lose control over our civic life, we will be finally and truly lost.
Historian

Very good comment Paul. I wish others saw this as clearly as you and weren’t so blinded by partisan rage. Well-couched arguments that can’t be ignored are what will eventually win the day. Not teenage name calling and pissing contests.
dfinch

These totals were over an 8 year period.
Bus

Bush made RECESS appts, Obama is making recess appts when the Senate is in session. Duh.
Bus

Also Bush was working with a Democratic Senate his entire time in office. While Obama has had the yes men rubber stamp Senate in place for 2/3 of his time in office.
smilee

Bus

The senate was not in session they did not have a quorum there since before Christmas, and Bush had a Gop senate 6 of his 8 years. Do you have a bad memory or is it your not capable of realistic thought
DJ

According to the register of Congress GW Bush made 42 recess appointments. Huffpo pulled your lie at 140, you expanded it with more propaganda. Now head on back to Media Matters and suck the progressive kool-aid down.
RickC

Rob, please pay attention to the details. They matter. I do not believe that any of us have issues with recess appointments. It is a President’s right to appoint folks WHILE THE SENATE IS NOT IN SESSION. Therein lies the problem. The senate was in session and Obama has no right whatsoever according to our laws and The Constitution to appoint anybody without the “advice and consent” of Congress if they are in session. The recess appointments you speak of were all done when the senate was NOT IN SESSION. This is a serious matter and I believe an impeachable offense if anybody on the GOP side has the balls to do it. Which if recent history is any guide they do not and most likely will do nothing to remedy this traitor’s behavior.
smilee

Rick
Your wrong, the Constitution only says the president has the right to make recess appointments and the Constitution says nothing about pro forma, the fact is there has been no quorum, not even in DC much less in the senate chamber, the question is can they be in session without a quorum and if not in session then they are in recess, that is Obama position and if the GOP does not like it take it court, I bet they don’t because if the court finds Obama is correct they will look like fools. The court can reject hearing it and then Obama’s position stands and if the court does hear they can find for Obama or define what a recess is and I think they would be hard pressed to say they are in recess when they are not in session. (session being having a quorum so they can conduct business and without a quorum they can not) The Constitution does require a quorum to conduct business of a majority of the senate present. This will end up being just more GOP BS.

wandamurline

It is time to change some of the rules in Washington….one being that anything you vote into law, you have to participate in that law, two…no more czars…the president has his cabinet that is approved by congress and that is all he needs….three, this presidential choice of appointing board members without congressional approval needs to be terminated. If we can get enough conservative constitutionalist representation, I believe that we can stop these processes and cut departments from this expanded overreaching government and take it back to constitutional size….enough is enough.

gardenlady

well said…aslo no more “executive orders”! what does he think he is…king! and 17 days on a vacation, when was the last time any of us had that much time to go on vacation??? but of course, we paid for all vacations….the public picked up the tab for this one and many more.
Flashy

I assumje Reagan is your idol. So…care to match up Pres. Obama’s Executive Orders and his vacation days versus Reagan? LOL …

DavidL

Talk what you know instead of regurgitating what you swallow from Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, and other right wing nut jobs. Here are the facts. If 9 gets you to dictator, what label do you have for the others? See below.

Reagan issued 30 per year. Bush senior 19 per year. Clinton 18 per year. W. Bush 21 per year. Obama 9.

John Woodbury

Once more for Koolaid guzzlers like you, the problem is not the recess appointments, it is the fact that the Senate was not in recess.

Michael

Treason seem the only word to describe these actions!

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