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Obama bypasses Senate to fill labor board posts

World Jan. 05, 2012 - 05:37AM JST ( 13 )

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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 10:05AM JST

Showing his Marxist, totalitarian colors.
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MolenirJan. 05, 2012 - 10:31AM JST

Considering this is his Majesty, King Obama the 1st, his ignoring the constitution isn't really a surprise. After all, this is the same person who decided that if he can't get laws he wants passed, he'll just implement them by executive fiat. Fortunately when we get a President again, they can simply undo all the crap he's done with the stroke of a pen.
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LagunaJan. 05, 2012 - 12:03PM JST

GOP leaders.. .threatened legal action and warned that Obama was setting a dangerous precedent by ignoring the will of Congress.

Sixty votes were needed to end debate on the nomination of the new director. Fifty-three senators voted in favor while 45 senators — all Republicans — were opposed. It is not Obama who is ignoring the will of Congress; it is a determined minority of deeply partisan obstructionists who are ignoring the will of Congress.

What the GOP wants is a do-over. They are not happy with the law as it stands and want a board of commissioners rather than a single director to oversee the agency and more control over the agency's budget - a sure way to emasculate the agency.

Also - the law is the law. It was passed by Congress and signed by the President. If some members of Congress oppose the law, they are welcome to work on repealing it. Simply ignoring it is not an option.
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WolfpackJan. 05, 2012 - 12:04PM JST

Just waiting now to see who he names to his Politburo. He is just setting a precedent that a later Republican president could use to by-pass the Senate. Dumb move and not good for the country. Obama has no use for the messy business of Democracy.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 03:08PM JST

Impeach.
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unreconstructedJan. 05, 2012 - 03:14PM JST

Labor unions, a bedrock of Democratic political support in this election year, had been pushing the White House to fill the seats.

Obama is their boy.
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KapunaJan. 05, 2012 - 03:21PM JST

The most honest, open, transparent administration.........
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LagunaJan. 05, 2012 - 03:56PM JST

GOP Senators have need to be angry because this is how it will now unfold. The CFPB will issue some ruling regarding credit cards or mortgages or pay-day loans that will anger Big Business, and they will then have to sue the government arguing that the director's appointment was unconstitutional. There are two problems with this: the first is that they will very probably lose: courts will see ample precedent in presidents' making recess appointments, as is stipulated in the Constitution.

The bigger problem is now some business or business group will have to expose itself to the limelight arguing against what will undoubtedly prove popular regulations for what will clearly be selfish motives. This is what they pay GOP politicians for in the first place! - to pretend to care about the consumer while paying politicians to legislate against the consumer's interest.

So the GOP overlords will not be happy about this turn of events at all, and you can bet that they will direct very harsh comments in private to their politicians which they did after all buy and pay for.
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MadvertsJan. 06, 2012 - 02:59AM JST

The party of No denied its' No.

There will be hell on, the President might actually get something done, un-impeded by partisan crank-shafts in the party of No.
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MolenirJan. 06, 2012 - 04:38AM JST

There are two problems with this: the first is that they will very probably lose: courts will see ample precedent in presidents' making recess appointments, as is stipulated in the Constitution.

Except, for the simple fact, that they never went into recess, thus the appointment is invalid. Ample argument against it. Even more telling is the simple fact that it is no less then a direct circumvention of the constitution. Specifically, the role of the Senate in confirming appointments. Think longer term then this Laguna. Eventually we'll have someone decent as President again, and possibly, the Dems will manage to sucker enough people into giving them back a majority in congress. So with a Republican President, and horrors, another Dem congress. Will you still agree with it then?

There will be hell on, the President might actually get something done, un-impeded by partisan crank-shafts in the party of No.

And the chorus against Democracy continues to grow. May I suggest moving to Venezuela? Or perhaps Syria. I mean since you seem to be so strongly in favor of Dictatorship.
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RomeoRJan. 06, 2012 - 09:40AM JST

Obama bypasses Senate to fill labor board posts

Translation: when Congress refuses to hurt our economy, Obama feels obligated to go ahead and hurt our economy by himself.

RR
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unreconstructedJan. 06, 2012 - 09:45AM JST

Obama's own legal counsel advised against the move. Maybe now they have gotten an inkling of how he really regards the Constitution.

madverts :"There will be hell on, the President might actually get something done, un-impeded by partisan crank-shafts in the party of No."

And the chorus against Democracy continues to grow. May I suggest moving to Venezuela? Or perhaps Syria. I mean since you seem to be so strongly in favor of Dictatorship

Good reply. The lone non-American here has no grasp of the issue. The NLRB, Boeing's place in this, the demands of Obama's union cronies, these are immaterial to people here looking for thrills bashing any who oppose their hero.
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RomeoRJan. 06, 2012 - 10:05AM JST

Barack, Harry and Nancy owned our government for two full years; ignoring half the population and their elected representatives. They lost their super majority for a reason.

RR