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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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#176. To: A K A Stone (#172)
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.
Your problem is you seem to think you speak for God.
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
I just proved otherwise. And you continue to mock. Why won't you listen to Jesus and abide by his 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
Some Christians reject the call to be like Christ and rely instead on forgiveness. This is known as cheap grace - it's what gives Christianity as a whole a bad name.
Economics is a social phenomenon and in no way a “science”, no matter how desperately its high priests would like to have it believed otherwise. It is, instead, a branch of anthropology and the sooner that is recognized and accepted, the better off human-kind in general and the world of academic economics, in particular, shall be proximity1 We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
Again it is you that mock God. You talked about God creating us in his own image. Which is true. But the way you said it implied that he condoned homosexual activity. That is you mocking God plane as day.
...I agree Stone...it was MD that posted the quote originally...I was only replying to his quote...and yes, we are supposed to have a discerning spirit and judge a tree by it's fruit. Judging and sitting in judgement are to different things.
please state what these might be...I'm curious.
LOL! I'm not surprised that a pussy such as you confuses PASSION with HATE. You pitiful simpering faux "christian" little creep FRAUD. You "aren't interested in what I say" in response to your oh so "Christian" comments about my own faith, eh COWARD? LMAO! I'm sure that you are not, you cowardly creep. I'm sure that you are the type who likes to hit people but is afraid of being hit in response? Maybe from now on you should screw with infant children? They wouldn't be much of a threat to you coward. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a base liar and a base hypocrite and an out and out cowardly FRAUD. You set yourself above GOD. You try to judge me and my faith, you gibbering hypocrite liar FRAUD. As if you had the right to do that, you sputtering hypocrite creep. Then you TRY to claim that you are a REAL "christian" as opposed to me. What you are is an arrogant hypocrite, liar, FRAUD "christian". You base HYPOCRITE, you base FRAUD. CHRISTIANS are NOT required by our Lord to be the milquetoast pussies that you limp wristed faux "Christians" want us to be. You are so stupid that you don't even understand what OUR Lord meant when he said to "turn the other cheek". HYPOCRITE. You are a whitewash TOMB.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
It is also speaking of the judgement of other's FAITH. Look out, or you'll get told how you aren't a REAL "Christian".
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
. LOL! The pitiful HEATHEN weasel tries to lecture the Christian on Christianity. What is WRONG with this picture?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
bully nazi weasel !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
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Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
your actions and words speak so loudly about you, I can't hear a word you're saying...
. LOL! PROVING what we all here already know, that you are a FRAUD and a COWARD. Gee who saw THAT coming eh? What is the view from above GOD where you have tried to set yourself FRAUD? BTW FRAUD, "TRUTH is an absolute defense". You don't even know the difference between WORDS and ACTIONS you pitiful little FRAUD.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Ok,here you are calling him a child molester in public as well as a homosexual,and also claiming he is lying. Which means you somehow know more about his sex life than he does? And you wonder why so many people call you nuts?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
My his rabies booster shots aren't up to date? He is clearly off his meds.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Which means they can never be cured of it no matter what they try. Which means any that are caught and convicted should be put into a prison or a mental institution for life.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
It is a well-established truth that while figures never lie,liars are always figuring.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
According to your logic. Fags should be put in jail forever too. Because you think they were "boooooornnnn" that way.
I'm praying for you MD...I hope you find the peace in your soul you claim you have.
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#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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#197. To: Ferret Mike, mininggold (#196)
#198. To: A K A Stone (#197)
#199. To: A K A Stone (#195)
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Trace this thread. It is you that started this by claiming I mock God.
#200. To: Ferret Mike, A K A Stone (#196)
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.
#201. To: mininggold (#199)
And you continue to mock. Why won't you listen to Jesus and abide by his teachings?
#202. To: A K A Stone (#148)
#203. To: mininggold (#176)
Jesus had other stipulations, which you ignore.
#204. To: freedomsnotfree (#144)
give it a rest dog...not interested in what you have to say...I didn't read your post, nor will I. YOU are the one that proclaimed you are a "sword carrying Christian", not me. I haven't judged you, I've seen your actions, words, statements and your accusations. There is absolutely nothing coming from you that gives the slightest hint of Christian behavior... you are the Yukon of LF... shame on you. I hope you're as you say Dog...but there's a lot of hate spewing from a spirit filled soul if it's true.
#205. To: A K A Stone (#148)
You should quote the whole thing. It is saying to not be a hypocrite when you judge. Don't judge someone for something when you do the same thing.
#206. To: A K A Stone, Ferret Mike (#159)
#207. To: Mad Dog (#206)
The pitiful HEATHEN weasel tries to lecture the Christian on Christianity.
#208. To: BorisY (#207)
#209. To: Mad Dog (#204)
#210. To: freedomsnotfree (#209)
#211. To: Mad Dog, Ferret Mike (#129)
Nope, I prefer women my own age. I have no sympathy for pedophiles. That's TWO lies faggot.
#212. To: meguro (#132)
The saddest part is that despite the insane obscene rants you see him spew in his typical posts,he really is a very bright guy.
#213. To: war (#142)
Child molestation is a deviant pathological compulsion.
#214. To: CZ82 (#143)
Put it this way I have seen studies/articles that say Homosexuals commit anywhere from 0% to 80% of all pedophile crimes in this country...
#215. To: sneakypete (#213)
Which means they can never be cured of it no matter what they try. Which means any that are caught and convicted should be put into a prison or a mental institution for life.
#216. To: Mad Dog (#210)
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