King Obama ‘non- recess’ appointments
January 5, 2012
“When Congress refuses to act, I as President have an obligation to act on the behalf of the American people and I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people.”
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Krauthammer: Obama’s Recess Appointents Part Of “A Long Strong Of Lawless Actions”
read text at RCP
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Obama Again Bypasses Congress, Appoints 3 To Labor Board
Obama appointed Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard Griffin to the NLRB.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka praised Obama’s decision to make the appointments in Congress’ absence.
“We commend the president for exercising his constitutional authority to ensure that crucially important agencies protecting workers and consumers are not shut down by Republican obstructionism,” Trumka said.
King Obama Takes Control – Breaks Rules On Recess Appointments… Just Because …Update: McConnell Issues Statement
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 4:06 PM
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Barack Obama used his recess powers to appoint a head for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new radical members of the NLRB today despite the fact that the senate was in session yesterday.
The Washington Times reported:
President Obama used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the National Labor Relations Board — moves Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session — breaking with at least three different precedents that said the Senate must be in recess for at least three days for the president to exercise his appointment power. Mr. Obama himself was part of two of those precedents, both during his time in the Senate and again in 2010 when one of his administration’s top constitutional lawyers made the argument for the three-day waiting period to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Obama tapped former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the CFPB, and named three others to the labor board — all of which had been stymied by congressional Republicans who said Mr. Obama is accruing too much power to himself through those two agencies.
Of course, the democrat-media complex will ignore this violation of justice as if it never happened.
Being a far left socialist has its perks.
The recess appointments are almost certain to be challenged in court.
UPDATE: Republican Leader Senator Mitch McConnell issued a statement today following Obama’s latest power grab.
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement today regarding the President’s unprecedented recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board:
“Just hours after he circumvented the American people by ‘recess’ appointing Richard Cordray to the CFPB, the President has upped the ante by making several additional recess appointments, this time to the NLRB. Although all of these appointments potentially raise legal and constitutional questions, the NLRB appointments are particularly egregious. Because the President waited to nominate Sharon Block and Richard Griffin until just two days before the Senate was scheduled to adjourn last month, neither has undergone a single confirmation hearing or a single day of debate by the representatives of the American people. Congress has a constitutional duty to examine presidential nominees, a responsibility that serves as a check on executive power. But what the President did today sets a terrible precedent that could allow any future President to completely cut the Senate out of the confirmation process, appointing his nominees immediately after sending their names up to Congress. This was surely not what the framers had in mind when they required the President to seek the advice and consent of the Senate in making appointments.”
January 5, 2012 at 6:59 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/15/reid-making-plans-to-bloc_n_72830.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2828711/posts
January 5, 2012 at 11:18 pm
He’s baaaaack: Obama recess-appoints Dodd-Frank czar
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/04/hes-baaaaack-obama-recess-appoints-dodd-frank-czar/
And when Bush used it in particular to appoint John Bolton as his UN ambassador, here’s what Obama himself had to say in 2005, via Morgen at Verum Serum:
“To some degree, he’s damaged goods,” said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I think that means we’ll have less credibility and, ironically, be less equipped to reform the United Nations in the way that it needs to be reformed.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/29/obama-2005-recess-appointees-are-damaged-goods-obama-2010-recess-appointments-are-critical-need/