It is either the ballsiest by the President or the most spineless by the Congress.

The sound of crickets is deafening.

http://www.redstate.com/derkrieger/

Or do we wait until we are wearing real and not just metaphorical chains?

It’s obvious to even the most obtuse that the GOP is simply unwilling and unable to confront and stop this madman.

Today he has continued his Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the GOP, the meda, and all that oppose him. He is doing so much, so fast that we can’t keep up.

Even if we get a GOP POTUS and capture the senate we won’t get 60 votes and the socialists will filibuster every bill aimed at rolling back the leviathan.

Have we lost? Is this the price of GOP cowardice and timidity?

I have NEVER feared for my liberty like I do right now. NEVER!

nt

Drew’s piece here and Ace’s follow-up and .. I gotta agree with Drew.

This is a campaign move.

Obama intends to run against McConnell, Boehner, and a “Do-Nothing Congress”, even if he has to castrate Harry Reid to set the stage.

I part company with them over what the reply should be .. I’d suggest Congress immediately strip all funding from the CFPB, and threaten the funding of any other department complying with requests from CFPB.

Congress, after all, has the power of the purse. Let them use it. Who knows, maybe even Harry Reid can prove he’s got half a nut left….

Mew

….but if Congress lies down they might just become superfluous like the Roman Senate.

This is what gives candidates like Ron Paul ammo. The guy’s a kook but legislation like this just imboldens the conspiracy NWO people.

There should be an immediate move by the House against President Obama. The man is behaving illegally, and should be called on it. Articles of impeachment would be drawn up except that Boehner is too terrified that he will look like the 1998 Speaker of the House (remember who that was? Gingrich is NOT the right answer).

Being a life-long resident of the State of Ohio, I will tell you that Richard Cordray is a politician’s politician, and will need to borrow Obama’s watch to tell him what time it is. Nevertheless, this worthless hack was not confirmed by the Senate, and should not be appointed.

Note that Obama cannot wait for a recess period (one of which just passed), but needs to stick it up the nose of the people of the US to show you that HE is better than the Constitution. What an egomaniac! And Dems think he is even the boil on the skin of a real politician?

Suit should be filed in whatever court immediately after Obama appoints him, to bar Cordray and all members of his staff from being paid.

This is really important to Obama. He will be using the Democrats Dodd-Frank bill to take apart our free enterprise system some more. Without a useful idiot like Cordray, Obama might have to do some work himself, and he might miss a vacation or some golf.

Is any Legal foundation planning to file a federal law suit and asking for temporary stay order? We can not let the illegal and illegitimate appointee cause the irreversible damage to the Republic.

Will Congress stop him, or will they continue to cede their power to a budding dictator?

After the two-month tax two-step, why shouldn’t Obama do this?

Does Ron Johnson or Rand Paul or Marco Rubio have the balls to shut the Senate down?

had the gall to say in a speech in Ohio that if Congress did not do what he wanted it to do in what he thought was best for the people he would bypass Congress. And the idiots on the platform behind him were clapping and cheering. Answer me this: If he were an avowed, out in the open Marxists, what would he be doing differently than what he is doing now?

I submit he does not know that he is violating the Constitution because he has never been taught US History. When he was a LECTURER at the U of Chicago, not a professor as the media says, he taught the Constitution as a living breathing document that should have given the government more powers and not tried to limit its actions.

If anyone has extra cahones please send them to the Republicans in DC because they are in dire need of some.

overwhelms its passive nature and natural tendency towards foolishness.

He’s in a large part running against Congress because it’s something he, and more importantly, his backers/handlers/advisers etc likely see as the easiest way to score political points and positive soundbites without consequences…

If Congress overturns by legislation it becomes a nasty fight that the O’s team can spin as “obstructionist opposition” etc. If Congress does nothing then it is essentially weak and worthless and people have no real sympathy for the perception of someone as weak in politics.

The problem for the R candidates is while they can bash the O for this to the choir, if Congress let’s it go then their silence undoes anything good that might otherwise come from it.

The only way the O really loses in this scenario is if he is impeached on multiple counts that include essentially all of the major scandals of his administration along with this. Personally I think it be awesome for the alleged constitutional scholar to be busted out being the kind of power grabbing wannabee dictator that the constitution is meant to impede from grabbing power.

NRLB and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Make all recess appointments into voluntary positions until and unless approved by the Senate. And while they’re at it, make the czar positions completely voluntary as well…. Let them earn what they’re worth = NOTHING!!

have the balls to do this, so anyone thinking the Rep POTUS will, is nuts. However president Santorum, or Gingrich or Perry certainly would. Meet the new Treasury Secretary, Grover Norquist , the Labor Secretary Rush Limbaugh, the new DOJ Chief Darrell Issa and the new SCOTUS member Thomas Sowell. All appointed during first recess of Congress 2013. Lets roll!

If he can make this fly, then he can just make all the recess appointments he wants at night. Just wait until the congresscritters have gone home for the day and make a “recess” appointment.
He said he wanted to run this country the way the Chinese government runs things.

According to the Congressional Research Service, President Ronald Reagan made 240 recess appointments, President George H. W. Bush made 77 recess appointments, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments.

Must we continue to deliberately ignore this history? You think that this hypocrisy and ignorance gets us anywhere with the mainstream voter? No wonder our chances of victory in the POTUS race this year is virtually nil.

IMHO, this action by Obama is just the latest in a tit-for-tat partisan game surrounding Presidential appointments for some time now. I understand the frustration from people who think he’s going outside the system, but it feels like crocodile tears when we were openly rooting for as much from Bush five years ago. Fix the procedure and you’ll fix the problem.

A Presidential appointment deserves a vote. Period. Congress can slow-walk legislation if they want to under the: “My Legislation, My House, My Rules, Neener Neener” doctrine, but I think a Presidential appointment to a vacant position ought to require action by Congress within some timeframe, say 30 days. Vote them down one after the other if you need to make your point, but I don’t want to see the precedent of filibustered nominations extend to positions with actual duties if we should win in 2012. Imagine the Democrats filibustering any and all defense-related appointments until “Waterboarding is illegal, punishable by life in prison” is made the law of the land.

We’ve been on a bad road for Presidential appointments, this was the inevitable consequence. If it wasn’t President Obama now, it likely would have been President GOP in 18 months. Let’s just fix this and move on to winning the election.

When Congress fails to fight to protect their 1/3 of the power of the government then our Democracy has failed. The Judicial branch is out of control and the Executive branch is out of control and the Legislative branch has ceded it’s powers.
The President needs to be impeached and the Judicial branch needs to be called to task for the laws they have passed that have created havoc in America through the misinterpretation i.e. separation of church and state, plus others.
Newt Gingrich is the only candidate seeing the dangers to this country from the Judicial System and he sees our government needs a good shaking up from top to bottom. We either take back control or we let Obama have the bloodless coup he and his Socialist friends are working toward.

“The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.”

The President has made recess appointments when Congress is NOT in recess. By so doing, the President has defied the Constitution and seized powers reserved to Congress. One wonders what it will take to move the House of Representatives to consider articles of impeachment.

Don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting real tired of BO’s R-Kelly Impersonaltion of P*ssing on everything he disrespects. Both the Constitution and the people are covered in urine from this despot, and we’re supposed to grin and bear it?

Recess appointments are a given….under Recess circumstance…this was not the case here.

How much more can he shove down our collective throats in the name of our mutual benefit.

Those we’ve elected, need to scream to high Heaven about this and use it in the ‘Dump this Loser’ Rhetoric they should be peddaling from the campaign pulpits.

This arrogant wannabe king must go and tomorrow would not be too soon. Disregard our Constitution, inciting class warfare, treason, and we could go on and on, this man should be impeached for these offenses against our great Republic.It is time for a revolution because of these recess appointments in the guise of protecting the middle class.

(I’m sorry I mis-posted this earlier)

I see many have suggested withholding funds, but our Congress wont even defund Cowboy Poetry.
I also see much being made about the Seperation of Powers, but Congress has been ceding power at least Marbury V Madison.

There is no GOP/Republican/Conservative leadership in this Congress. Tsar after Tsar, Executive order after Executive order, Bill after Bill, Law after Law, Continuing Resolution after Continuing Resolution – the assault on the Constitution has received no rebuke.

A ruling class has been created, and both D and R’s populate it. I fear a populous outcry will not happen, and if the Prolateriate (yes, even those who make over $250K) leave it to those who comprise the Bourgeoisie to self-regulate, is to surrender one’s humanity and submit to kowtowing superiors.

Americans have been conditioned very well to accept the leadership of government.

giving the finger to the American people and the leaders they have elected to do their business in DC. Whatever we do and whoever we nominate to do it with, we need to make sure The Communist is denied further access to the WH this year. The people who are going around saying and posting that if their candidate doesn’t get the GOP nomination, they will vote for The Communist, need to suck it up and vote GOP anyway. Anybody is better than The Communist, including the goofy Ron Paul.

we could wind up worse. A truly evil man, made and supported by an equally evil media. The leftie netroots will love this. Why?, because they will be told to love this.
The stench of fascism grows worse, the danger more obvious, and 2012 looks more ominpus today than even before. And to me it didn’t look good then.
It might be advisable for the GOP candidates to not waste too much money on what could be a useless, empty campaign. As I have said before, win or lose Benito Obama may not be leaving the WH.
National emergency you see.

so that now you know what you can expect from the upcoming campaign season, which will go down as one of the most brutal in history.

Cordray was appointed during the Summer of 2011, and his appt was filibustered by Senate Republicans, who wanted changes to the Consumer Protections bill. No problem with that in my opinion. The Dems used this same procedure to block Bush appointments to the Courts, so much for their outrage.

However, lest anyone think that the Senate Democrats are going to join with the Republicans in their anger over this end run, according to a piece in the LA Times, Reid gave his blessing to the President for this end run.

Do Something About it Congress!

drdan4congress.com

To say Obama has make fewer recess appointments is the same as the cow jumped over the moon in relation to not recessed appointments.

Can any of this possibly be a surprise from an administration that has shown that it and it’s Justice Department are more than willing to break felony criminal laws to carry out their socialist agenda of destruction?

I read that Obama’s campaign was having some trouble coming up with a campaign slogan for 2012, but this event gives him one: “What Are You Going To Do About It?”

The senate is always in recess this time of year. It’s the season for recess appointments. Get over it.