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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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#156. To: A K A Stone (#154)
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I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Then why do you appear to love and tolerate Homo sex when Happy Quanzaa posts about it?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Happy posts negative true stuff about it. You two proclaim it as a virtue.
You are made so blind by your loyalty to your religious paradigm you've adopted you no longer know what is truly ethical and right from what is dogmatic and serves only the purpose of insuring structural loyalty to an intolerant mindset. You are unwilling to grant people their rights and privileges as citizens if you and others in your particular set of fascist ideology doesn't like it and thinks it their duty to bully and harass them. Until you wake up and smell the coffee that you don't control people not of your religious clique, you are going to be eternally unhappy, and always have the desire to try to be a bully in ways not your right to. This is your problem, not that of homosexual people, people like me and others that support their rights as citizens, and those that will make you obey civil rights laws you violently oppose.
CHALLENGE.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
He posts about it down to the minutist detail. There's nothing negative about it. So does the Bible lie when it says that God made man in (H)his own image?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You don't do things like the Jesus model in your Bible would have you do it, and you don't care.
I don't take witches to seriously. It is like the devil complaining about helping out a little old lady. You don't know right from wrong most of the time. That is your problem not mine.
No. Do you even know what an image is?
Are you a lesbian?
These born agains think that grace makes up for behavior that continually mocks Jesus's words.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You only prove my point by reverting to a derisive high school bully model of behaviour where you try to make things personal to try to get me angry enough to lose control enough for you to possibly manipulate me. It won't work. I know your game, and it has no power to affect me. You are once again merely your own worse enemy here.
He never discusses lesbians, only the voyeuristic type of male homosexuality which seems to interest quite a few here. Are you a latent Homo? You respond like one.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Mike you are a nice guy. You want to do right. You just don't know right from wrong. You have deceived yourself. You can undo it. But you have to let go of your hatred of things that are righteous and good. Your hatred of the truth is what makes you what you are.
yet you continually mock Jesus' teachings and call God a liar.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You can't just say yes or no. Why the cloak of secrecy. You proclaim it a virtue. If you don't want us to know you don't have to answer and we can infer from your non answer.
Actually that would be you. Well it is the truth. Lets prove it again I believe Jesus when he says he is the Son of God. That he will not admit anyone to heaven unless they come through him. Do you believe Jesus or was he a liar?
Yet you are the one who allows...... no... actively encourages, graphic detail of male homosexual sex to be posted on his forum and you call me a Lezzy? LOLOLOLOL You are being judged by YOUR behavior.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
now you try to play both roles of the 'good cop/bad cop' game. I have a very well developed sense of what is right and wrong, and I am well educated in truths you blind yourself too. This won't work either.
Actually I asked if you were because of your posts. I would have taken you at your word regardless of the answer. But you didn't answer for some strange reason. If someone asked me if I was some homo. I surely wouldn't say none of your business. I'd say hell no.
Lets prove it again I believe Jesus when he says he is the Son of God. That he will not admit anyone to heaven unless they come through him. Do you believe Jesus or was he a liar? Jesus had other stipulations, which you ignore. Or do you believe that Satan doesn't believe in the power of Jesus too?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Actually I don't like that. Would you please ping me to anything like that in the future. Thanks.
Yes of course. I fall short all the time. But you still never answered the question.
If someone asked me if I was some homo. I surely wouldn't say none of your business. I'd say hell no. And I asked you because of your consistent behavior. Are you a latent Homo? Your voyeuristic qualities toward male homo sex as expressed by your repeated behaviors on this forum would tend to say....Yes.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
But you still never answered the question. When you can find one post of mine that leads you in that direction I will answer.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Do you believe Jesus or was he a liar?" You can believe he is the son of God all you want, but you still won't reach your goals of following him until you emulate his teachings in the New Testament. How you act and what you say conflict with his model of behavior. Is there any scripture where he mocks the religion of another? Is there a scripture where he calls someone a dirty lesbian and mocks them in the manner of a bully? I don't think so. When I read that religious text, I see someone quite a bit differently than the man you value being.
There were a couple of questions. I'm talking about the one about if Jesus was liar. You can just answer now. Please.
Yes. It is found in numerous places. Start with the 10 commandments.
You can just answer now. Please. You are trying to distract from your own behaviors which show you mocking the teachings of Jesus Christ every day on this forum.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
That is the Old Testament and an off the subject red herring, stop changing the subject and stop ignoring the parts of Jesus' teachings inconvenient to your desire to manipulate, control and oppress others.
You gave no examples. Instead you just proved that it is you that mocks God. You just denied Jesus. Thanks for playing.
It is in the Bible. It is all one book. It is you that brought up the subject. Jesus quoted from the 10 commandments moron.
Thanks for playing. And you continue with your Jesus mocking behaviors. Thanks for setting an example of a modern day, self professed, true blue, "Christian".
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Again. No denial of your denial of Christ.
By your inquisitions you think you are Christ and God all rolled into one. As you are an admittedly unrepentant sinner, I owe you no confession of any sort. You might be Satan for all I know, you certainly act the part.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
YOU are not GOD. You are an unrepentant sinner whose past behaviors proved full of sneaky ulterior motives. Even quite satanic at times.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
No I am not God. I am a man. "But whosoever shall deny me before men"
"But whosoever shall deny me before men" Then stop taking on the role. You have not proven trustworthy or even capable of minimally following Christ's teachings.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Trace this thread. It is you that started this by claiming I mock God. I just proved otherwise.
That is his hands to ears, "La la la la la la, I hear nothing" phrase when the truth becomes too inconvenient to him. He is distressed because he cannot effectively recruit others to his particularly odious for of social control, and even if he becomes angry enough to try to use his moderator's dashboard to bully and manipulate, he will still lose. The simple truth is he has lost the thread of comprehending the very teachings he claims to value most; this of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. He doesn't want to admit this or try to see how this is so, but it is obvious to everyone else here what he is really all about, and he does not like that.
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#157. To: A K A Stone, Happy Quanzaa (#153)
I'm not interested in your knowledge of homo sex. I don't care if you do know a lot about it. It is not interesting in the least.
#158. To: mininggold (#157)
Then why do you appear to love and tolerate Homo sex when Happy Quanzaa posts about it?
#159. To: A K A Stone (#149)
#160. To: A K A Stone (#158)
Happy posts negative true stuff about it.
#161. To: A K A Stone (#158)
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Happy posts negative true stuff about it. You two proclaim it as a virtue.
#162. To: A K A Stone (#158)
#163. To: Ferret Mike (#159)
#164. To: mininggold (#161)
So does the Bible lie when it says that God made man in (H)his own image?
#165. To: mininggold (#161)
There's nothing negative about it.
#166. To: Ferret Mike (#162)
You don't do things like the Jesus model in your Bible would have you do it, and you don't care.
#167. To: A K A Stone (#163)
#168. To: A K A Stone (#165)
Are you a lesbian?
#169. To: Ferret Mike (#167)
#170. To: A K A Stone (#169)
Mike you are a nice guy. You want to do right. You just don't know right from wrong. You have deceived yourself. You can undo it. But you have to let go of your hatred of things that are righteous and good. Your hatred of the truth is what makes you what you are.
#171. To: mininggold (#168)
#172. To: mininggold (#170)
yet you continually mock Jesus' teachings and call God a liar.
#173. To: A K A Stone (#171)
You can't just say yes or no. Why the cloak of secrecy. You proclaim it a virtue. If you don't want us to know you don't have to answer and we can infer from your non answer.
#174. To: A K A Stone (#169)
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"Mike you are a nice guy. You want to do right. You just don't know right from wrong. You have deceived yourself. You can undo it. But you have to let go of your hatred of things that are righteous and good. Your hatred of the truth is what makes you what you are."
#175. To: mininggold (#173)
and you call me a Lezzy?
#176. To: A K A Stone (#172)
Actually that would be you. Well it is the truth.
#177. To: mininggold (#173)
Yet you are the one who allows...... no... actively encourages, graphic detail of male homosexual sex to be posted on his forum
#178. To: mininggold (#176)
Jesus had other stipulations, which you ignore. Or do you believe that Satan doesn't believe in the power of Jesus too?
#179. To: A K A Stone (#175)
Actually I asked if you were because of your posts. I would have taken you at your word regardless of the answer. But you didn't answer for some strange reason.
#180. To: A K A Stone (#178)
Yes of course. I fall short all the time.
#181. To: A K A Stone (#172)
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"I believe Jesus when he says he is the Son of God. That he will not admit anyone to heaven unless they come through him.
#182. To: mininggold (#180)
When you can find one post of mine that leads you in that direction I will answer.
#183. To: Ferret Mike (#181)
Is there any scripture where he mocks the religion of another?
#184. To: A K A Stone (#182)
I'm talking about the one about if Jesus was liar.
#185. To: A K A Stone (#183)
#186. To: mininggold (#184)
You are trying to distract from your own behaviors which show you mocking the teachings of Jesus Christ every day on this forum.
#187. To: Ferret Mike (#185)
That is the Old Testament and an off the subject red herring,
#188. To: A K A Stone (#186)
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ou gave no examples. Instead you just proved that it is you that mocks God. You just denied Jesus.
#189. To: mininggold (#188)
#190. To: A K A Stone (#189)
Again. No denial of your denial of Christ.
#191. To: mininggold (#190)
#192. To: A K A Stone (#191)
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But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
#193. To: mininggold (#192)
YOU are not GOD.
#194. To: A K A Stone (#193)
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I am a man.
#195. To: mininggold (#194)
Then stop taking on the role.
#196. To: mininggold (#192)
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