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oooh...a strawman!!!!
Your source. It is quite clear there are two sides to the story.
The Senate has followed the proper protocols. Protocols that Obama's own Justice Department argued for. These protocols compel a President to act with the advice and consent of Congress. Such advice and consent Obama has shunned. Now Obama has taken a further unprecedented step to take power from the Legislative. The community organizer needs to be shown the door.
You referring to the WH lawyers who said the President can bypass it? So it is "period." This is an open shut case and quite unprecedented.
According to the republicans in congress. So that is not "period". Nice try though.
Funny how Bush was never demanded to be shown the door by Republicans, and he made 171 recess appointments.
Ummm....no prior precedence makes it pretty much "period." The Senate was IN SESSION in accordance with their rules which they draft in accordance with the Constitution. I get that that document isn't very important to this Admin or its more ardent followers.
Bush makes recess appointments, no problem. Obama makes recess appointments, it's a constitutional crisis. For gods sake people, whether something is right or wrong is not determined by who did it.
Good for Obama, it's about time he got some balls. Let the GOP fight him in an election year. Bring it on!!The Senate has followed the proper protocols. Protocols that Obama's own Justice Department argued for. These protocols compel a President to act with the advice and consent of Congress. Such advice and consent Obama has shunned. Now Obama has taken a further unprecedented step to take power from the Legislative. The community organizer needs to be shown the door.
Your source. It is quite clear there are two sides to the story.
Good for Obama, it's about time he got some balls. Let the GOP fight him in an election year. Bring it on!!
...My disappointment is that Obama has chosen politics again, at the expense of the country.....
Good for Obama, it's about time he got some balls. Let the GOP fight him in an election year. Bring it on!!
are you ****ing kidding me????
the GOP in Congress has admitted to filibustering every God-damned bill proposed or supported by Obama, for the simple purpose of winning the 2012 election and you are complaining about Obama choosing politics????
give me a break!!
Link it "Progressive". Otherwise, I am calling your bluff. Many bills have passed this year.
Bush makes recess appointments, no problem. Obama makes recess appointments, it's a constitutional crisis. For gods sake people, whether something is right or wrong is not determined by who did it.
Did you miss the example given in the source?
Bush makes recess appointments, no problem. Obama makes recess appointments, it's a constitutional crisis. For gods sake people, whether something is right or wrong is not determined by who did it.
why did you put Progressive in quotes? do you think I'm a crypto-Conservative?
Link it "Progressive". Otherwise, I am calling your bluff. Many bills have passed this year.
Thunder said:the GOP in Congress has admitted to fillibustering every God-damned bill proposed or supported by Obama, for the simple purpose of winning the 2012 election and you are complaining about Obama choosing politics????
Obama is quite the hypocrit in this one isn't he?
We have recess appointments occurring when his own party controls the Senate. Maybe he should pick a less controversial appointment if he cant even get it by his own party.
Now if you want to claim its being blocked, debate the nominee, see how that plays out. If it plays out badly, maybe he shouldnt be the nominee.
Lastly, this is all political maneuvering, its being done to provoke a reaction from the GOP so Obama can go radical, blah blah, extreme, blah blah. Its all really transparent. Funny how he can ignore precedent to make a political move that he was against before he was President. Maybe if it was the wrong thing to do before, it should be the wrong thing to do now.
Someone, somewhere is going to sue, per the law, the Chairman or whatever the term is, must be confirmed by the Senate to enact any of his duties. So we will see what happens.
Good for him. At this point the Congressional Republicans simply can't be reasoned with. The days when Obama pushed so hard for bi-partisan compromise on everything are over. He was shockingly patient with the Republican obstructionism for 3 years, but that patience appears to have worn out.
The Republicans have consistently been using every dirty trick they can come up with to block everything of any kind. Every nominee, every bill. Even nominees and bills that they in the past have supported. At this point it is becoming more and more clear that they are openly trying to prevent government from functioning entirely. They don't want it to pay it's bills, they don't want any legislation of any kind passed, they keep pushing for government shutdowns, they don't want the positions required to fulfill it's basic functions to be staffed. They're trying to sabotage the US government itself. Well, when one of the parties decides to try to intentionally derail the country you don't sit there and say "ok, how about if we just half derail it"... What you do is you try everything you can to circumvent them and keep the train on the tracks.
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