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Title: Obama defies Senate, appointing consumer, labor officials
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URL Source: http://www.thesunnews.com/2012/01/0 ... a-make-recess-appointment.html
Published: Jan 4, 2012
Author: Lesley Clark and Tony Pugh
Post Date: 2012-01-04 23:22:22 by Mad Dog
Keywords: IMPEACH, this, INSANE COMMIE monster
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WASHINGTON — A defiant President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress on Wednesday and appointed a new consumer watchdog, locking horns with Republicans, who immediately accused the president of exceeding his authority to appoint a director to an agency they oppose. Speaking at a high school in the election battleground state of Ohio with his nominee for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by his side, Obama struck a populist tone and blamed congressional Republicans for stalling the appointment of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as “America’s consumer watchdog.” “I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people,” the president said. “And I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve.” Obama defies Senate, appoints consumer and labor officials Obama defies Senate, appoints consumer and labor officials A defiant President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress on Wednesday and appointed a new consumer watchdog, locking horns with Republicans, who immediately accused the president of exceeding his authority to appoint a director to an agency they oppose. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opens Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opens The most tangible government reform to grow out of the Great Recession officially goes live this week when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau assumes its regulatory authority on Thursday. Ex-Ohio attorney general picked to lead consumer finance watchdog agency Ex- Ohio attorney general picked to lead consumer finance watchdog agency President Barack Obama will nominate Richard Cordray, who as Ohio's attorney general was a leader in state policing of financial industry abuses, to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that formally opens its doors this week, the White House said Sunday. Stirring up a fight, Obama names consumer watchdog Stirring up a fight, Obama names consumer watchdog Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama on Wednesday barreled by the Senate and installed a national consumer watchdog on his own, provoking GOP threats of a constitutional showdown in the courts. Setting a fierce tone in the election-year fight for middle-class voters, Obama said: "I refuse to take 'no' for an answer." Senate Republicans block Obama nominee to head consumer finance agency Senate Republicans block Obama nominee to head consumer finance agency As expected, Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's choice to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Hours later, the White House announced that Obama also had appointed three members to the National Labor Relations Board, in defiance of Senate Republicans. In Ohio, the president noted that he'd nominated Cordray last summer to serve as a beat cop against deceptive, abusive and predatory loan products in the financial marketplace, but that Senate Republicans had blocked the appointment, not because Cordray was unqualified, but because “they don’t agree with the law that set up a consumer watchdog in the first place,” he said. Senate Republicans have made clear that is, indeed, their motive.“They want to weaken the law. They want to water it down,” Obama said, adding that, “by the way, a lot of folks in the financial industry have poured millions of dollars to try to water it down.” Senate Republicans blocked a confirmation vote on Cordray last month and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accused Obama on Wednesday of making an unprecedented appointment, because the Senate isn't in official recess. Traditionally, McConnell said, presidents make such appointments only when the Senate is in recess for 10 days or longer. Obama has “arrogantly circumvented the American people,” McConnell said, adding that the move “lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress’ role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch. ”He said that Republicans wanted structural changes to the agency, which was “subject to none of the checks that independent agencies normally operate under.”White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer accused Senate Republicans of coming up with a “gimmick” to prevent the president from exercising his recess appointment authority: being out of town for weeks but convening every few days in a “pro forma” session.Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a center-left policy-research center, said the Constitution “doesn’t define what constitutes a valid recess for the purpose of the president’s proper exercise of the recess appointment power, leaving it open to interpretation. ”She said that in the most recent court case on the matter _ when the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., challenged the recess appointment of William Pryor to an appeals court by President George W. Bush _ the administration’s right to make a recess appointment on the seventh day of a 10-day intra-session recess was upheld. The back and forth over Cordray underscores the partisan fighting that's characterized every development of the new consumer protection bureau, the most tangible government response to the nation's 2008 economic meltdown. After failing last month to get the 60 votes needed for a straight up-or-down Senate confirmation vote on Cordray, Obama hinted that he might use a recess appointment to bypass the GOP filibuster that's left the new agency without a director since its regulatory authority began in July. At the time, the president also voiced frustration over GOP efforts to delay his many other nominations, including federal judges and assistant treasury secretaries. Senate Republicans also have blocked appointments to the National Labor Relations Board; Obama appointed three members Wednesday. The NLRB appointments allow the board to decide cases again. That authority was lost earlier this week when the five-member panel was down to only two members and was unable to field a quorum. Kimberly Freeman Brown, the executive director of American Rights at Work, commended the president’s NLRB appointments.“Without a functioning board, employers and employees alike would have been stuck in legal limbo on a range of critical issues, including the rights of certain workers to form unions and the appropriate use of social media to discuss workplace concerns,” Brown said.Created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau monitors deceptive, abusive and predatory loan products in the financial marketplace. A division of the Federal Reserve, the bureau works as a stand-alone agency to make sure consumers understand the terms of loan products by reducing fine print, simplifying forms and helping to illuminate costly penalties and fees that often are hidden.Senate Republicans see the bureau as a vast overreach of government authority and have blocked any nominee for director until the agency's structure is revamped. Without a director, the bureau could examine and oversee large banks, but it couldn't oversee non-depository institutions such as mortgage companies, payday lenders and credit bureaus.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce decried Obama’s move as “unprecedented, constitutionally questionable” and said it put the authority of the director and the bureau’s work “in legal jeopardy.”
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#2. To: Mad Dog, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#0)
. Don't you like your President who YOUR vote help elect CULT boy? especially wearing the CMH? Only ignorant, lazy, shallow "thinker" FOOLS believe that "the two parties are the same". I'm waiting for the repukelican't messiah "king" obammy. Oh yeah "it was all de ebil BOOOOOOSH'S fault", right you CULT boy moron? EVERY vote that RonniePaulie takes in his coming third party run will be a vote FOR the messiah "king" obammy. F' ing CULTIST IDIOTS.
You are talking about the Republican Party People,of course. The ones that elected and miss the Bush Crime Family that helped hire the current denizen living in the WH. After all,the definition of insanity is when you keep doing the same thing and keep expecting different results. Which is what you do when you keep voting for the usual suspects. Last time the Party People fell in line behind John McLunatic as the "conservative savior". I have no doubt you will do the same this time for Romney.
F' ing CULTIST IDIOTS. You are talking about the Republican Party People,of course. The ones that elected and miss the Bush Crime Family that helped hire the current denizen living in the WH. After all,the definition of insanity is when you keep doing the same thing and keep expecting different results. Which is what you do when you keep voting for the usual suspects. Last time the Party People fell in line behind John McLunatic as the "conservative savior". I have no doubt you will do the same this time for Romney. Yep petey I was and AM talking about CULTIST fools such as YOU. You absurd gibbering CULTIST simpleton The F' ing SHIP HAS HIT THE ICEBERG OBAMMY and you gibbering CULTIST simpletons are running around pointing fingers at people long GONE from the scene. Searching to pin the BLAME on them. ALL that you F' ing gibbering CULTIST gerbils are doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the TITANTIC. You are pitiful, and YOU are helping obammy et. al. to MURDER AMERICA. I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, YOU are supposed to know better. FOOL.
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, YOU are supposed to know better. FOOL. Blah,blah,insane bullshit,blah. Tell us Buckwheat,how is voting for the lesser of two evils been working out for you since Reagan left office? Notice much change for the better? Ever caddy for Bubba Bill Bush and Poppy Bush? Notice how the country really swung to the right after Bob Dolt and John McLunatic ran as Clinton-Lite? And you wouldn't piss on me because you probably can't piss without getting your fingers wet.
#17. To: sneakypete (#13)
Can I have the complete list of Republicans you would vote for against Obama? The ones that are running. Thanks.
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"The constitution's just a God damned piece of paper" ~George W. Bush
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
#4. To: Mad Dog (#3)
F' ing CULTIST IDIOTS.
#10. To: sneakypete (#4)
#13. To: Mad Dog (#10)
You are pitiful, and YOU are helping obammy et. al. to MURDER AMERICA.
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