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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThink Progress: President Obama Has Made Far Fewer Recess Appointments Than Any Recent President
Despite the inevitable conservative complaints that President Obama is engaged in some kind of massive overreach by recess appointing Richard Cordray as the nations chief consumer financial protection watchdog, the truth is that Obama has used his recess appointment power very sparingly. After todays appointment, President Obama will have made a total of 29 recess appointments. By comparison, George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments; Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments; George H.W. Bush made 77 recess appointments; and Ronald Reagan made 243. When you divide these numbers by the number of years each man spent in the White House, it reveals that Obama is far and away the least likely president to invoke this power:
Looks like the repubs can't claim that he is abusing the power to make recess appointments.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/04/397589/president-obama-has-made-far-fewer-recess-appointments-than-any-recent-president/
a2liberal
(1,524 posts)" Looks like the repubs can't claim that he is abusing the power to make recess appointments. "
They'll claim it anyway
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)It is time for us to hit republicans across the head with facts and don't stop hitting them with facts.
a2liberal
(1,524 posts)Since when have Democrats (those in power and with a pulpit to speak from) called out Republicans on factual errors?
Charlemagne
(576 posts)The media too. They do an interview, a lie is told (one that I the viewer know is a lie), and the reporter accepts it as fact and moves on.
Its like we are afraid to call foul on anything they say. This is why they can win.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)and even more in the future. Today was good but
should have filled a few more especially with how the Senate is...
That's part of the game.
Remember Bolton in the UN? He's equal to 200 recess appoints today.
Obama needs to become average not the least in history...
tblue
(16,350 posts)We should inandate him with praise.
librechik
(30,676 posts)Since Obama was elected. They are trying to block this appt too, for the same reason, but Obama, bless his heart, is finally getting the message to just DO something instead of waiting for the correct protocol to do anything. They wilkl use this against him as an illegtal power play, they are already saying it.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)was able to get in two key recess appointment, Craig Becker to the NLRB and Donald Berwick to the CMS, which is why I suspect Republicans became determined to block others. They were hell bent on blocking several of Obama's nominees, Goodwin Liu, Peter Diamond and Elizabeth Warren.
pnorman
(8,155 posts)n/t
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)truly hate America.
USA_1
(1,684 posts)If the Pukies can make these appointments, so can he. There is nothing to be afraid of.
spooky3
(34,483 posts)ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)I just heard on the radio that the Senate has been holding pro forma sessions with the express purpose of preventing an appointment being made. While it's their right to withhold consent if the prospective appointment is unqualified or otherwise unacceptable, surely it is improper for them block an appointment for the sole purpose of obstructing the function of government. Now they are holding sessions just so that the positions will remain vacant. That has to be improper in some way. Of course, I don't think that stops Obama from making the appointments. A thirty second session with only one member in attendance cannot hold appoint hearings, so essential Congress is out.
Anyway, this has to be a huge boon for the Democratic efforts in the upcoming Congressional elections. The number of actions taken in the past two years by the Republicans in Congress for the sole purpose of impeding the normal function of government is staggering. I think they can't help but garner a reputation as Nihilists.
These men are cowards, Donny....
Quantess
(27,630 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)lies and distortions.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)because the republicans didnt give him as many chances to exercise the power because they were being obstructionists.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)If the Republicans let him make more recess appointments, then he would!!!
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray was the top story throughout the day. The media is full of a bunch of biased assholes. They never covered Bush's recessed appointments like this. What fuckers. But I'm not telling you anything you already knew. Just venting. I hate the bias.
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)The obstructionist Republicans met their match with our President, and he showed them the losing side of Constitutional law.
Republicans really hate it when they get clearly beaten by superior intelligence.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)The Wizard
(12,549 posts)in two areas:
Temper tantrums and lying, it's in their DNA.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)... will also be true just as soon as one person in the media makes that claim. The fact that the claim is false will not change the fact that it was claimed.
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