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Obama makes four appointments, bypassing Senate
Reuters ^ | 19 August 2010 | VINEYARD HAVEN

Posted on 08/19/2010 5:22:07 PM PDT by bd476


Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday made four recess job appointments to his administration, including a new U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, postponing the need for Senate approval.

Recess appointments, which have been made by presidents of both parties, allow a president to temporarily bypass the Senate confirmation process required for senior federal posts by filling vacant positions while lawmakers are on vacation.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communismkills; communistspy; cultureofcorruption; espionage; nationalsecurity; obamascandals; obamunism; recessappointment; transparency
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1 posted on 08/19/2010 5:22:13 PM PDT by bd476
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To: bd476
The emperor absolutely has no clothes.
2 posted on 08/19/2010 5:26:13 PM PDT by bethtopaz ( www.rapturealert.com)
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To: bd476

Did Bush make any such appointments?


3 posted on 08/19/2010 5:30:06 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I am currently under federal investigation by the DNC for my opposition to the Ground Zero mosque.)
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To: bd476
I reserve the right to act within my authority to do what is best for the American people"

I'll be darned, he's resigning! Oh, wait, my mistake, I took him at his word.

4 posted on 08/19/2010 5:32:07 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: bd476

“Postponing the need for Senate approval.”

In other words, the cowardly bastards in the Senate don’t want to have to ask any kind of controversial questions of one of Premier Hussein’s Czars while they are already desperately trying to hold on to “their” seats.

This is cover for the Dhimmies ahead of the November elections, and nothing else.


5 posted on 08/19/2010 5:37:44 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: NoLibZone
He did but I think because there was threats of Filibusters from the democrats—Bolton is one who comes to mind.
6 posted on 08/19/2010 5:39:51 PM PDT by funfan
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To: NoLibZone
Did Bush make any such appointments?

Quite a few, although in his defense, the Dems blocked pretty much every appointment he tried, so he had little choice if he was going to have an adequately staffed government.

I have to say that I feel differently about Obama's appointments, because even though the GOP tries to block them, so many of them are manifestly seditious.

7 posted on 08/19/2010 5:41:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: NoLibZone
Did Bush make any such appointments?

Every President does.

8 posted on 08/19/2010 5:54:36 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; funfan

Thank you both.

Obama feels he has lost the Dem support and needs to make appointments outside of the DNC controlled Congress.


9 posted on 08/19/2010 5:55:05 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I am currently under federal investigation by the DNC for my opposition to the Ground Zero mosque.)
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To: bd476

Sneakin’ In da Freaks!


10 posted on 08/19/2010 6:04:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! America's Taliban!)
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To: NoLibZone

I was trying to do a llittle research to see who the 4 are-I am sure they are of the socialst commie variety
Birds of a feather.......


11 posted on 08/19/2010 6:04:28 PM PDT by funfan
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To: bd476

Caliphates don’t need Senate confirmation. It’s beneath them.


12 posted on 08/19/2010 6:16:26 PM PDT by pallis
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To: bd476

Did any of these four have committee hearings at least? Were they blocked by the GOP? Or were they like the new Medicare Director who never even had a hearing scheduled by the Dems?


13 posted on 08/19/2010 6:37:49 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
including a new U.S. ambassador to El Salvador
Thanks bd476.
14 posted on 08/19/2010 6:44:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Tatze
From The New American.com

President Barack Obama has appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte to be the next American ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, a La Raza devotee, was nominated in 1998 by Bill Clinton to be ambassador to the Domincan Republic, but her name was withdrawn after revelations that she had intimate ties to an agent of the DGI, the Cuban intelligence agency.

15 posted on 08/19/2010 6:44:14 PM PDT by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: funfan

See post #15


16 posted on 08/19/2010 6:45:14 PM PDT by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: bd476

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/08/obama_makes_four_recess_appoin.html

**Maria del Carmen Aponte, ambassador to El Salvador.

**Elisabeth Hagen, Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for food safety

**Winslow Sargeant, chief counsel for advocacy at the Small Business Administration

**Richard Sorian, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.


17 posted on 08/19/2010 6:45:46 PM PDT by deport
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To: bethtopaz
The emperor absolutely has no clothes.

Cute saying and all, but has not a damn thing to do with recess appointments, which prove that this damned prez indeed has a ton of tools at his disposal, and is being guided in their use.

He ain't hardly nekkid. His agenda is being fulfilled.

18 posted on 08/19/2010 7:39:28 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: bd476

Transparency ... Chicago style.


19 posted on 08/19/2010 7:46:23 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: NoLibZone

You have to scroll almost all the way down to the bottom to see the list of appointments, but the whole document is an interesting read.

Congressional Research Service

Recess Appointments Made By President George W. Bush,
January 20, 2001-October 31, 2008

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33310.pdf


20 posted on 08/20/2010 1:29:53 AM PDT by Mila
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