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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.
The False Left-Right Paradigm and the Deception of the American People The truth is, there is no right or left. There is only right and wrong, freedom or tyranny. The party bosses and ardent followers would have you believe otherwise. They would have you believe that right is whatever particular party they belong to, and wrong is the political opposition. This might be true if the sides of today were genuine. Instead, both parties and most mainstream organizations funnel into the same end result: total control. While the left and right bicker publicly on "hot topics", the end result is the same, regardless of who is President, or who is in control of Congress. Less freedoms for individuals, less sovereignty for nations, losses of jobs through insane international agreements like NAFTA, the dilution of American culture, and the over extension of our military. It's been said that if you don't like what the Republicans are doing, vote for the Democrats, and if you don't like what Democrats are doing, vote Republican. It's set up like a game. I have my favorite team, and you have yours. I'll back my team no matter what, just as long as your team doesn't win. The problem is, both teams are full of scandalous figures who are so busy selling you and I out for their own personal gain, they have no time or desire to help our country in this time of need. While we Americans are busy cheering our favorite politicos and jeering our least favorites, both sides are pursuing the policy of the destruction of America. EVERY vote that RonniePaulie takes in his coming third party run will be a vote FOR the messiah "king" obammy. You know what? I am NOT voting for another big-government LIBERAL Republican. I'll vote third party if Congressman Paul does not get the nomination. NO ONE else owns my vote, not you, not the RNC. I'm disgusted with bleating sheep like you who don't have the balls to take a stand and support an honest, principled candidate who is head and shoulders above the rest and is not a shill for the New World Order. Poster comment : How many of the other so-called conservative candidates have spoken out about TSA abuses? The PATRIOT Act? How about the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act? Has anyone besides Ron Paul stood against this abomination? Romney HASN"T EVEN READ IT!
LOL! Your ignorance is invincible CULT boy. You pin headed CULTISTS really do think that you have discovered THE super DECODER ring of the US CONSTITUTION don't you? You actually believe that you have some "special" secret gnostic KNOWLEDGE, that the rest of us AMERICANS, (especially we CONSERVATIVES who despise your wee FRAUD hero), don't have! After all, you PaulTARDS are "SPECIAL"! Right CULT boy? LMAO! CULTIST IDIOTS. Gibber on loser. RP will NEVER be President and every vote for his coming third party run is a vote FOR the messiah "king" obammy.
How many of the other so-called conservative candidates have spoken out about TSA abuses? The PATRIOT Act? How about the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act? Has anyone besides Ron Paul stood against this abomination? Romney HASN"T EVEN READ IT!
That was her view in 1996. It's 16 years later. Can we shoot them now???
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"The constitution's just a God damned piece of paper" ~George W. Bush
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
#23. To: Mad Dog, A K A Stone, hondo68, freedomsnotfree, (#3)
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Only ignorant, lazy, shallow "thinker" FOOLS believe that "the two parties are the same".
#28. To: Deckard (#23)
I'm disgusted with bleating sheep like you who don't have the balls to take a stand and support an honest, principled candidate who is head and shoulders above the rest and is not a shill for the New World Order.
#30. To: Mad Dog (#28)
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You pin headed CULTISTS really do think that you have discovered THE super DECODER ring of the US CONSTITUTION don't you?
#32. To: Bill D Berger (#30)
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe
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