Posted on 03/29/2010 8:41:02 AM PDT by ocr1
Ah, the Obama water-carriers at the NYTimes never fail to disappoint. They describe the Obama White House decision to bypass the Senate and make 15 recess appointments while the Senate is on spring break — including radical SEIU labor lawyer Craig Becker’s appointment to the NLRB, which was rejected by the Senate last month on a 52-33 cloture vote — as a “muscular show of his executive authority.” When that authority was exercised by GOP President George W. Bush, of course, the NYTimes editorial board called it a “constitutional gimmick.”
And when Bush used it in particular to appoint John Bolton as his UN ambassador, here’s what Obama himself had to say in 2005, via Morgen at Verum Serum:
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You know, if Israel wants to bring bammy around to its way of thinking it should just join a union.
HYPOCRITE!!!!!..........proved again and again and again.
Both parties do it because it is ‘accepted practice.’ It is also accepted practice for politicians of both parties to make 180 degree turns with a straight face and expect us to believe their sincerity in both directions. Yet another example of why you cannot EVER trust a politician. If the media called them on it, nothing would change, but at least we might draw some comfort that the media was doing its job (some hope!), and some amusement from the momentary discomfort of the politicians.
Of course he’s a hypocrite - that’s a prerequisite for the Democratic nomination, isn’t it?
Obama was dead wrong in 2005. It is well within the Constitutional authority of the President to make recess appointments. He made some terrible appointments here, but they should be criticized on their merits, not on the constitutionally-sound appointment procedure used.
What do you mean this isn’t all of the news?
*over the news.
The list, ping
Question: In the 2011 impeachment hearing for these appointees, can the House of Representatives just “deem” them to have paid for these positions?
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