Posted on 01/25/2012 4:17:01 PM PST by Tigen
(CNSNews.com) - Former Attorney General Ed Meese says the U.S. House of Representatives should pass a resolution condemning President Barack Obama for acting unconstitutionally in appointing a director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three members to the National Labor Relations Board without Senate confirmation and when Congress was still in session.
“I wish it would also be the Senate,” Meese told CNSNews.com, “but that probably wouldn’t happen because of the fact that [it is] in Democrat hands. But the House of Representatives should pass a sense of the House resolution condemning the president for this, so that the people themselves will understand that he is doing an unconstitutional act.”
Like the three Grey Sisters of Greek Mythology who had to share one eyeball between them—the Republican leadership have to share one testicle between them.
Problem is, when it’s time for one of them to cowboy up, someone else is holding the “package.”
Resolution?
Pansies.
The only legitimate course of action is Impeachment.
Sending a message through a symbolic resolution is horse manure.
The House should cancel all funding for any board with members appointed in direct violation of the Constitution, starting with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board. They should make that non-negotiable with the Senate, and shut down the CFPB and the NLRB. Neither board is useful in general, so it would be no loss, and standing up for the Constitution would strengthen the Congress (which even libs in Congress would like), while reinforcing the rule of law (which I hope libs won't mind too much).
Articles of Impeachment and a rider in some bill Obama favors forbidding any expenditures to pay salary or benefits to persons appointed in violation of Article II Section 2 by virtue of having been appointed without the advice and consent of the Senate, while the Senate was in session, and invalidating all actions taken by such persons or by bodies of which they were purported to be members.
Articles of Impeachment and a rider in some bill Obama favors forbidding any expenditures to pay salary or benefits to persons appointed in violation of Article II Section 2 by virtue of having been appointed without the advice and consent of the Senate, while the Senate was in session, and invalidating all actions taken by such persons or by bodies of which they were purported to be members.
But I repeat myself.
(Not sure how that got doubles posted. . .) If the mods want to delete the second occurrence and this post to save bandwidth and server space, by all means, go for it!
“Like the three Grey Sisters of Greek Mythology who had to share one eyeball between them—the Republican leadership have to share one testicle between them.”
That is the funniest thing I have read in weeks.
The GOP doesn’t have the stones to do anything like this.
I believe the House has employed this mechanism on several occasions already.
However, the whole budget process has been short-circuited by the Democrat Senate's refusal to pass any budget bills whatsoever.
This leaves the "budget" to the mercy of so-called "baseline budgeting" -- last year's expenditures plus a certain percentage.
As a consequence, agencies like the EPA, the NLRB and CFPB proceed without interruption.
Should the GOP House make an issue of this sad state of affairs? Of course. But, for some reason, they remain silent...
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