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Title: Bypassing Senate, Vacationing President Obama Makes 4 Recess Appointments
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URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2010-08-19-18-16-31
Published: Aug 19, 2010
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:44:57 by Brian S
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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) -- Once again bypassing a gridlocked Senate, President Barack Obama acted Thursday to install three agency officials and a diplomat whose nominations had stalled amid election-year squabbling. In a statement released shortly after he arrived here for vacation, Obama said the partisanship left him no choice but to resort to what's called a "recess appointment". He said Americans deserve better. "At a time when our nation faces so many pressing challenges, I urge members of the Senate to stop playing politics with our highly qualified nominees, and fulfill their responsibilities of advice and consent," Obama said. "Until they do, I reserve the right to act within my authority to do what is best for the American people." The move reflected Obama's increasing frustration with the scores of judicial and other nominees awaiting confirmation votes. Last month, he installed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, as head of the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid. Furious Republicans accused him of arrogance and seeking to avoid embarrassment at hearings that would have exposed flaws in his health care overhaul. Like Berwick, the four nominees Obama acted on Thursday will be able to serve until the end of next year. -Winslow Sargeant will be chief counsel of advocacy for the Small Business Administration. The White House said he had been waiting over 14 months for Senate action. -Richard Sorian will serve as assistant secretary for public affairs at the Health and Human Services Department. He had been waiting more than 11 months since Obama nominated him. -Maria del Carmen Aponte will be chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador. She'd been waiting more than eight months. -Elisabeth Hagen will be undersecretary for food safety at the Agriculture Department. Her wait was nearly seven months. Republicans countered that Sorien and Hagen won committee approval at the end of June, so when the Senate went on its recess, they'd been waiting just a month for floor action.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Just fookin beautiful!!!!! http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/07/obamas_cynical_recess_appo intm.html As a matter of policy, President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid was inspired: Berwick, co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is the country's leading evangelist for the proposition that it is possible to deliver higher quality medical care at a lower cost. He's not only preached that gospel; he's shown that it can be translated into reality. As a matter of politics, the president's choice of Berwick was, well, the polite word would be bold. The less polite word: boneheaded. Administration officials argue that Republicans would have seized on any nominee as an opportunity to re-litigate the health-care debate. But Berwick offered opponents a loaded gun with his talk about rationing, his discussion of health reform as a matter of redistributing wealth, and his effusive praise for the British system. If the president wanted to buy a fight like this, he ought to have been better prepared to wage it. And as a matter of good government, the president's move to snub the Senate and install Berwick by recess appointment was outrageous. Using -- more accurately, abusing -- this mechanism to make appointments during a Senate recess is a bipartisan temptation. All presidents succumb, and Obama is facing a more implacably recalcitrant Senate minority. Yet the original purpose of recess appointments was to let government function during the long stretches with Congress away, but that's water under the constitutional bridge.
Indicates that the dem controlled congress has abandoned him. Telling that he has to go around democrats.
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Second on that. November is the the start......change we can believe in. Meanwhile this crew of barack fellators can keep the belongings boxed up for the trip back home after the first of the year. Schadenfreude baby:)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
Bypassing Senate, Vacationing President Obama Makes 4 Recess Appointments
#2. To: Ibluafartsky (#1)
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Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
He said Americans deserve better.
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