Con-sty-two-shun? What's that? It sounds racist.
We don't do no Con-sty-two-shuns around here.
Now why don't you go pay your taxes? We need raises.
Posted on 01/04/2012 11:07:27 AM PST by Justaham
President Barack Obama says he won't take "no" as an answer from Republicans, so he's going around them to appoint the head of a new consumer protection agency. Obama says Republicans would just keep holding Richard Cordray's nomination hostage—and the president says that's inexcusable and wrong.
He says Cordray must be in place in order for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to start helping consumers deal with unscrupulous mortgage companies, dishonest payday lenders, and others.
Obama announced the appointment of Cordray during a stop Wednesday in Ohio, where Cordray once served as attorney general.
Republicans are outraged but Obama says he has an obligation to act when Congress refuses to.
The recess appointment means Cordray stands to serve for at least the next two years.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Are the republicans actually going to do something for a change or are they going to sit on the side lines and cry?
The AP is not in the bag for Obama's reelection, no...
So, who’s gonna’ take the sob on? Does anyone in the country have “standing” when it comes to opposing the tyrant in chief?
There needs to be a joint press conference on this this ASAP. It should not stand.
There needs to be a joint press conference on this this ASAP. It should not stand.
There needs to be a joint press conference on this this ASAP. It should not stand.
boo hoo
Cry of course!
Yup, crying is all the gop will do. Maybe the most worthless two women on the planet, boehner and mcconnel, can get together and cry together.
Boehner will cry. It’s what he does best.
If any of them had a spine, they’d defund that abomination. Obama can appoint whoever he wants - no money is no money.
But the R’s all wear pink ties and won’t do a damn thing.
at a minimum, the appointee should be publicly vetted, since Obama has bypassed the normal process. Any girlfriends? Boyfriends? Bad habits?
It sounded to me like Obama is selling us a benign dictatorship. Gotta get things done to “help” working folks, yes siree.
begin impeachment proceedings NOW!!!!
Republicans are outraged? What are they doing about it, send him a strongly worded post it note? Idiots.
begin impeachment proceedings NOW!!!!
Exactly. Even when the Dems are out numbered, they never give up when they have something on their minds.
The republicans better grow a damn back bone and fight for this country or step down and let someone who cares about this country to get in their and fight!!!!
Obama just provided another talking point for Newt in the upcoming debates.
Great! Going forward any Republican President can do the same. They can start with appointing conservative judges to SCOTUS.
This was done very deliberately. There was a small window in which Obama could have made a legal recess apt. He let it slide by, and then did this SO AS to get in congress’ face. Congress is pathetically unpopular right now and O’s plan is run against them. So he will be picking fight after fight and positioning himself as the champion of the people who gets things done despite the dysfunctional congress.
He should have been challenged on a fundamental level long ago. The Ruling Class Elites in the GOP leadership appeased him instead, and this is their reward. Unfortunately, we, not they, are the ones that will pay the price.
A boot needs to be put up his behind. We do not need this new consumer bureau.
Obama wants to be dictator.
Do you ever see the liberals give up? Even when they are out numbered they fight, and damit I don't care what the republicans do just as long as they fight. I'm sick and damn tired of these do nothing buffoons in congress!
To the GOP: Fight you bastards, fight!
“Republicans are outraged but Obama says he has an obligation to act when Congress refuses to.”
Maybe the Grim Weeper can send a strongly worded letter. Yeah, that’ll make obama straighten up.
Barry the great and magnificent is a one party kinda guy. He would have made an excellent Nazi dictator. He makes a shi**y American however.
Somehow, the US managed to survive over 200 years without such a position, and Obama decides it is so important, he must break the law to install his henchman. Thank goodness we have a POTUS who cares so much for the American people to break the law to help us. /half joking
Let’s see if one of the candidates has the backbone to get in the dictator’s face and make a statement about this. The first one to do so gets my vote.
Outrageous!
The Republicans had better not sit still for this.
http://news.yahoo.com/using-recess-power-obama-putting-cordray-job-162516090.html
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional. Period! That is the problem. There should be no appointment in the first place.
This bogus “bureau” will be used for nothing but shaking down people and companies for money.
Sickening.
What?
It turns out that the action not only contradicts long-standing practice, but also the view of the administration itself. In 2010, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to the Supreme Court the Obama administration’s view that recess appointments are only permissible when Congress is in recess for more than three days. Here’s the exchange with Chief Justice John Roberts:
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And the recess appointment power doesn't work why?
MR. KATYAL: The -- the recess appointment power can work in -- in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days. And -- and so, it is potentially available to avert the future crisis that -- that could -- that could take place with respect to the board. If there are no other questions –
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.
Speaker Boehner called the appointment an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,” and noted that the position “had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.”
CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW....THIS IS AN OUTRAGE....ANOTHER DISREGARD FROM OBAMA FOR AMERICA' S CONSTITUTION....
Unaccountable positions of power attract leftists like flies to cowpies.
Power of the purse. No money, no agency.
The Kenyan lizard cannot spend money not allocated by congress.
Gongress IS acting- they are STOPPING you from appointing this lunatic to be in charge of the insane asylum
Republican Senators should bombard the media with one question:
Who is Miguel Estrada!
who is going to pay this new agency chief and his staff?
congress? or obama
who is going to listen to, or take any actions, or enforce any actions directed by an imposed (not appointed) agency chief?
congress?
I think McConnell, Boehner and a couple of other senators with standing should come out and publicly denounce this. The dictator’s in our faces every day. Why not call him on it? What’s he going to do next?
This vacancy pre-dated the recess and was already under consideration by the Senate, and Cordray could not clear the hurdles. Obviously, the Senate thought there was no emergency or hurry. They left on vacation.
Unconstitutional because it was not a "happen during recess" issue.
Unconstitutional because the original constitution, with long periods for travel and communication, set this up for emergency vacancies, which this was not.
Unconstitutional because Cordray, even in a recess, cannot be "appointed". He could only be given a commission that automatically expires at the end of the Congressional session.
Are you kidding me? Obama would laugh in their faces and they would do nothing about it.
McConnell and boehner are pathetic.
Congress has the power of the purse strings.....
Simply defund the entire department.
He can appoint all he wants, but where will the funds come from?
This was not a “recess” appointment. Technically the Senate is not in recess but they are all out of town.This appointment should be challenged on those ground but I doubt we’ll see anything from the spineless Repubs.
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Obama is trying to put up as much framework as he can as quickly as he can - a dictatorship need a structure in place before they take over
The Chicago Punk is jab-pushing Uncle Sam, sayin’ “What ya gon’ do ‘bout it?” He has back up positioned around the corner, under the manhole covers, hiding in doorways ready to riot, and knows he can get what he wants in this street fight.
The rest of us wait along with Congress for that day we can vote the SOB out of office, go in, and clean up the mess.
We have to have Gingrich. HE IS American.
Frankly, I’m so jaded I just see them all as part of the problem. It started with Trent Lott for me. I’m so done with politics. It’s why I moved from my multi decade home of Seattle to a small farm in rural central Kentucky this summer. I saw last year as August of 1939. I see this year as the year that September of 1939 comes. I believe it to the core of my being.
Of course, I could still be wrong, but I’m putting my money where my mouth is. ;)
Where’s the money coming from for this agency and this guy’s paycheck ?
With all the legislation that has been passed, that many have not bothered to read, how do we know if this isn't already paid for or funding set aside?
The GOP do have mouths, they can speak. They can call out this president, they can hold press conferences....
Its amazing how the democrats when they are in the minority can get a lot accomplished.... And when they are in the majority, they're nearly unstoppable because the GOP either goes along with them or rolls over.
The consumer advocate crowed is almost exclusively leftist malcontents. This is about campaign strategy and nothing else.
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