and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 03/27/2010 11:54:25 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
BULLETIN: Obama announces more than a dozen recess appointments, including NRLB nominee Craig Becker. 3 minutes ago via Tweetie
Appointments include 5 members of EEOC, senior DHS management offcial, CPB...
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The Politboro is almost complete. How’s that hope-ee Change-ee thing workin for ya?
Every one is a scumbag.
Is there a stronger word I can use?
Well, I usually say I loathe the evil bastard.
No suprise here folks, since the SEIU union owns the Chicago crook Obama.
Before Snowpocalypse II hit Washington yesterday, the Senate squeezed in a brush back to President Obama and his friends at Big Labor. As the old saw goes, elections have consequences, and the one on the mind of legislators took place in Massachusetts last month.
Democrats Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln joined with Republicans to block cloture on a closely watched vote on the appointment of a lawyer for Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union to a seat on the National Labor Relations Board. As glaring was that only 52 Democratic Senators dared record their support for Craig Becker’s nomination.
Speaking earlier in the day, President Obama hinted that he would be prepared to make recess appointments. Mr. Becker may be first on his list. If that happens, this confirmation battle should be clarifying about the NLRB’s legal remit.
Mr. Becker ran into trouble from the moment his nomination came up last April. Among the nominees for the three open seats on the five-member board, his views stood out for their radicalism. In a law review article, Mr. Becker said the NLRB could rewrite union-election rules to favor labor by fiat—for example, by removing the requirement for a secret ballot.
His supporters at the SEIU saw an opportunity to run around Congress, which has so far failed even to vote on Big Labor’s dream of a “card check” law that would make it much easier to organize. While an employee of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO last year, Mr. Becker also helped prepare several pro-labor executive orders issued by Mr. Obama. He failed to clarify his role during the confirmation process.
Explaining his opposition, Senator Nelson noted that Mr. Becker would bring “an aggressive personal agenda” to the NLRB, whose “main responsibility is to resolve labor disputes with an even and impartial hand.” The board supervises union elections, investigates labor practices and interprets the National Labor Relations Act.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704820904575055561992685740.html
They only get one year with a recess appt - this guy has so poisoned the well in the Senate that even without a GOP majority next year, they are all unemployed again. Like Reid, Lincoln, Specter, Bennet, Boxer, hopefully Finegold
These people are apparently so horrendously unqualified and dangerous that Obama could not get his own party to confirm them in the Senate.
That’s exactly what it says.
That is the first I have heard of that appointment.
to coin a phrase of McCain's she is a good womans and there is nothing to be afraid of....
From obama:
Obama Administration appointees have faced an unprecedented level of obstruction in the Senate.
•President Obama currently has a total of 217 nominees pending before the Senate. These nominees have been pending for an average of 101 days, including 34 nominees pending for more than 6 months.
•The 15 nominees President Obama intends to recess appoint have been pending for an average of 214 days or 7 months for a total of 3204 days or almost 9 years.
•President Bush had made 15 recess appointments by this point in his presidency, but he was not facing the same level of obstruction. At this time in 2002, President Bush had only 5 nominees pending on the floor.
By contrast, President Obama has 77 nominees currently pending on the floor, 58 of whom have been waiting for over two weeks and 44 of those have been waiting more than a month.
HATE!
and America takes another one in the........
We can look for all the Blue Dogs who were bribed into voting for Obamacare to get recess appointments to cushy jobs after they lose.
Wait until RUSH gets on air with this!
Or, what an execrable load of excrement.
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"...Like EFCA, the RESPECT Act has also failed to garner legislative—let alone public—support. Becker, however, in an article predating the introduction of the RESPECT Act, has signaled that he favors limiting which workers the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) classifies as supervisors. This limiting would be done, of course, not through Congress and a revision of statutory language but through the NLRB.
Even if Becker’s policies were remotely mainstream, his role as ALF-CIO/SEIU super lawyer, his prior work for Obama, and his associations with ACORN all raise questions about his nomination. Becker is currently associate general counsel for the SEIU, the same position he held when, as part of the Obama transition team, Becker drafted Executive Order 13496, “requiring government contractors and subcontractors to post a Notice of Employees Rights under Federal Labor Laws.” Although Becker claimed he was on “vacation” while working with the Obama transition team, allowing a high-ranking, paid member of organized labor to draft executive orders benefiting (surprise!) organized labor contradicts the President’s pledge to enforce a high standard of government transparency.
And then there is the ACORN issue. Although Becker rejects charges that he has ever done work for ACORN, he did admit he “worked with and provided advice to” SEIU Local 880 in Chicago. Yes, that SEIU Local 880 in Chicago. In fact, ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke has praised Becker for his “contributions.”"....
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http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/26/craig-becker-big-labor%E2%80%99s-big-ally/
She’s a “wise Latina”. She had to recuse herself after she was hearing one of Sheriff Joe’s cases, and that topic was brought up.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/152208
trib/ap didn’t place that fact about her sister in the article.
President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. District Court Judge Mary Murguia of Arizona to fill a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Murguia was the first Latina to serve on the federal bench in Arizona.
She was nominated to her current post in 2000 by then-President Bill Clinton.
Murguia worked previously as a county prosecutor in her native Kansas and as a federal prosecutor in Arizona. She also was director of the U.S. Attorney’s Executive Office.
Obama says has demonstrated a strong commitment to public service in her career.
add rep. steve cohen to the list!
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