Friday, January 06, 2012

Obama is DARING a republican house, and senate minority to give him some payback


Obama takes victory lap

By Amie Parnes 01/06/12 12:45 PM ET
Two days after defying Republicans and appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama visited the new agency to take a little time to gloat.
Making a victory lap of sorts at the independent agency, Obama cracked a joke, telling employees that he came by to help their new director move in.
More seriously, a seemingly content Obama called the man he tapped a “great director who is tailor-made to lead this agency.”With Cordray at the helm, after months of delay, the agency will help Americans better digest mortgages, student loans and credit card fees before they become entangled in debt, Obama said before a packed room of more than 100 CFPB employees.
Did he just say americans are too STUPID to understand a mortgage? Understand a credit card?
Dem NLRB ‘recess’ appointments rushed, don’t appear on White House nominee list
The two Democrats that President Barack Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board during what he considered a congressional “recess” are not on the White House’s official list of Obama’s appointments and nominations for various positions.
Obama referred his two Democratic nominees, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, to the Senate on Dec. 15. The Senate adjourned for the year – but did not go into an official recess — on the following day.
WhiteHouse.gov tracks the status of all of Obama’s appointments and nominations. Block and Griffin do not appear on that list — a sign that the administration rushed the recess appointments through too quickly for the Senate to even consider them.
“It’s hard to argue that the Senate was obstructing these Democratic nominees when they don’t even appear on the administration’s own list of nominations and appointments,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce labor policy specialist Glenn Spencer told The Daily Caller.
Pres Clinton’s justice department, and SCOTUS both ruled that a recess must be > 3 days to be considered a recess. Neither side of the legislature has been out of session for more than 2 days.
 
The Republicans should send this to the courts, fast tracked, and call for more cooperation with Obama.
 
EASILY OBSERVED TRAP
 
However, if Obama goes out of office, unless the democrats in the legislature make a positive move, the sine waves of extreme behavior will only INCREASE in amplitude.
 
Obama is going to conduct a scorched earth campaign.

If this is going to be Romney, we all had better be ready for him to be portrayed as the handmaiden and protector of the (white) 1%, a prime member of the (white inherited moneyed) 1%, and a proper target of justified incitement, whose prior hob was to buy companies and fire the 99% for his 1% buddies.

Romney should FULLY prepared for this

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Three of the officials, a Republican and two Democratic nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, never even received a committee hearing, let alone a cloture vote. In other words, the Senate never got a chance to obstruct; the president decided to preemptively circumvent the Senate’s advice and consent duties altogether.The three officials in question are Sharon Block, Terence Flynn and Richard Griffin, each of whom will fill an empty spot on the NLRB.Nominations for Block and Griffin, both Democrats, were submitted to the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension Committee on December 15. The Senate entered pro forma session the next day, with most members returning to their home states after only a day to review the nominations.Neither Griffin nor Block had even submitted the required paperwork to the committee. That paperwork includes a background check, “which addresses whether taxes are paid and if the nominee is facing any pending civil or criminal investigations,” according to the committee. “This also ensures that there are no conflicts-of-interest before being confirmed for the position.”Committee spokesman Joe Brenckle told Scribe that members had not expressed their views on those nominations for the simple reason that they had not had a chance to undergo the normal vetting procedures. In other words, there is no evidence that the committee – let alone the full Senate – would have blocked those nominations even if they had come up for a vote.

Hmmmm.......Definition of 'Dictator' - Government, Politics and Diplomacy) a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc

Always On Watch said...

Is Congress just going to stand by and do nothing???

Epaminondas said...

If this were 2010, or 2009 or last year I would say GO CRAZY congress. But this is about the next pres election...I am ABSOLUTELY convinced that Obama could give a shit about the actual appointments. The entire purpose is to goad congress to act against him both in stopping his actions now, and in not cooperating later so he can execute the only plan he has which is historically viable... run against an obstructionist congress.

SEND THIS TO SCOTUS, repubs.

Act to find compromises.
DO NOT GO FOR THIS BAIT

Unknown said...

He appointed them so there would be no background checks it's just that simple.

Always On Watch said...

About Romney....

The LDS Church (Mormonism) is going to come under great scrutiny as well. I know quite a bit about the LDS. If the media pulls out all the stops, it's gonna be ugly.