Posted on 08/19/2010 5:22:07 PM PDT by bd476
temporarily bypass the Senate .....so how many of these so called temporary post have been filled now for 18 months?
I know others have replied to you, but GW Bush’s most important and crucial recess appointment was, in my opinion, John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN.
As I recall, we had been without a US ambassador to the UN for a significant period of time and when John Bolton took his place at the UN, there were, as I recall, 37 resolutions being considered that were significantly detrimental to the US. Had Pres. Bush not appointed the astute and courageous Bolton, I believe Kofi et. al. would have run wild.
EODGUY
Yeah, this is pretty temporary. I think the recess appointments are only good until the end of the legislative session. Thus, if he appointed someone the january after the election, they could serve two years, but doing it right before the election means they only get about four months.
GOOD LUCK GETTING YOUR STALINISTS AND MAOISTS THROUGH THE SENATE AFTER NOVEMBER IMAMOBAMA YOU FRICKIN COMMUNIST.
If we take the senate we can also hold up future scotus nominees, assuming some senators with fortitude get elected.
I am waiting for him to appoint his horse - Incitatus - to the senate!
HE will soon appoint Osama Bin Laden, Bill Ayers, Revie Wright whitey hater,and Lucifer himself and the media would ignore it and just report on the glorious relaxed day the POTUS is having on vacation and how he went out for ice cream and healed many by his look.
“the Dems blocked pretty much every appointment he tried, so he had little choice if he was going to have an adequately staffed government.”
Wouldn’t the Republicans opt to do something similar?
“Did Bush make any such appointments?”
Start with John Bolton.
This is normal for Presidents. However, I would worry when they do it under cover of darkness or media blackout.
“When the GOP finds it’s spine, I might consider changing my registration back. “
If Republicans were the majority they would do the same thing.... hahahahahahaha.... sorry, sometimes I crack myself up.
Yes, John Bolton to UN Ambassador post, a brilliant and necessary appointment, and likely a few others as well. Clinton used it to appoint a person some considered a race-imbued ideologue to, as I recall, the Civil Rights Commission, a man named Lee. However, this did not become a routine mode of governance until 2009
Moe, Larry and Curley make only three. Who was the fourth?
Obama appointed Maria del Carmen Aponte, who has faced Republican opposition in the Senate, as ambassador to El Salvador.
During her March Senate confirmation hearing, Aponte was questioned about a former romantic relationship with a Cuban national she lived with in the 1980s who was linked to Cuban intelligence officials, according to the Washington Post.
If I was President I would do this for everybody in my administration
Just wait for the Senate to go on vacation and appoint away
The Senate needs to grow a set and tell Obama he is abusing the law and then Congress needs to change the law so the President cannot bypass “we the people”
nobama is a traitor.
Obama's Democratic Party lost its 60 seat Senate majority in January, costing it the votes needed to overcome procedural hurdles by Republicans.
Last time I checked, January was not 303 days ago, which means the "filibuster-proof" Senate wouldn't confirm them, either.
Could they be anything else?
Arrogant a$$h01e.
I sure wish I lived close enough to sit in on this stuff. If nothing else, I’d throw popcorn.
Yeh, but I'd like to think they are more justified with many of Obama's more radical appointments. Obviously, opinions differ.
There's always been some of this, but I think the degree of partisanship became particularly bad under Clinton, and has stayed bad since. That's in part because the parties differences have been accentuated--common ground has become hard to find.
Of course, we should probably start referring to Obama's "czars" as emirs or sultans, in keeping with the Muslim underpinning of the current administration.
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