Senate? Senate? We don't need no stinkin Senate!

[888888]

YEP WE GET IT! If a dem does it it's wrong, but when a republican does it, it's just good goverence.

How do you justify not approving a guy who everyone says is qualified just because your side doesn't like the law that was passed by both the Senate and congress. Now that is almost treason to keep the govt from functioning. Esp when the agency is there to make sure your "REPUBLICAN BASE" doesn't cause another melt down of the financial markets again.

 

[PolitacynicNH]

In these crazy times all we have is our humor. I save mine for laughing at the angry ranting fools. I keep saying to myself 'so this is what it was like to feel like a Buchco koolaide drinking fool....'
I just like watching them whine- 'aw that's not fair!....'
But to really watch them squirm all you have to do is let a few facts fly and they lift their feet and whimper like you just dumped a box of poisonous snakes on the floor!

 

[Saladin2]

Next week these Republican senators will complain about something else.....They look like grumpy old men ...Oh I forgot they are

 

[Alinvegas]

You are still missing the point. It ain't about the injustice either.

 

[Alinvegas]

Reagan was in office 8 years as well. O'bungle = not quite 3. Give him time.

 

[Alinvegas]

Please provide your proof that the republicans were responsible for the melt down of the financial markets!

 

[middleview]

I have been calling Obama "Joseph Stalin's Clone" for quite some time... people should have known who Obama was before voting for him.

What is funny is that Bush did the same thing.....bush had nearly 200 recess appointments. He also had more "czars" than Obama.

Don't bother with claiming the Senate is in session. One senator with a gavel is not sufficient to vote on an appointment.

 

[middleview]

Please provide your proof that the republicans were responsible for the melt down of the financial markets!

1. Gramm-Leach-Bliley: Deregulated financial industry. Eliminated oversight for derivatives. The bill was written by republicans, signed into law by Clinton. Effects were not obvious until after the 2001 inauguaration of "W". FBI warned of massive mortgage fraud threatening to destabilize the economy in 2004.
2. American Dreams act: Required FHA to back 3% down mortgage loans. Provided loans for those who couldn't afford 3% down. Loans were not counted against income in calculating acceptable mortgage payments.
3. Bank leveraging changed in 2003. Bush administration let banks leverage at 40::1 instead of the previous 15::1. That allowed them to make more and more risky investments.
4. Bush appointee Cox (SEC) moved people from enforcement to other departments. The number of prosecutions for fraud dropped substantially after 2002. There was only one person in the department of Risk Assessment. There was only one person assigned to audit AIG. There was no effort to provide oversight to companies rating mortgage backed securities.

Finally, Bush took office in 2001 with a 4.5% unemployment rate and a budget surplus. He left office with an 8.2% unemployment rate and a deficit over a trillion bucks and an economy going over the cliff. Bush did nothing to correct any of the problems, until TARP.

 

[lupehernandezdepedajack]

I didn't "mise" the point at all. In fact I specifically noted that the GOP couldn't make it about the appointee, even if they wanted to. Dyed-in-the-wool Obama-haters will make this one all about "the injustice of it all", just as dyed-in-the-wool Li'l George-haters made HIS recess appoints all about the injustice of it all. And in both cases, no one in the vast in between, gives a rat's ass.

The Question is!!!! How many appointments did dubya make after the Democrat run Senate started the "still in session" gimmick. I honestly don't know and if he made some in spite of the Senate declaring they were still in session then this is no big deal. If he made none because he felt they were unconstitutional well then this speaks volumes about Democrats and that arrogant Dicktaterlike Obama in particular.

 

[Alinvegas]

#1. This isn't about the apointee.
#2. Prove to us that W had more czars than O'bungle
#3. According to Senate rules, they are still in session.

 

[Alinvegas]

 

[Saladin2]

Looks like some of these Republican types don't know when they have been defeated

 

[Bo-4]

There was nothing controversial about Richard Cordray.

Your clowns just like saying no. ;-)

 

[middleview]

#1. This isn't about the apointee.
#2. Prove to us that W had more czars than O'bungle
#3. According to Senate rules, they are still in session.

The post that Obama filled was created over a year ago. The law that created the post was passed by Congress and the republicans don't like the fact that there is a department that would have oversight related to the practices that created the mortgage mess. Preventing the appointment is not an acceptable tactic. They can work to modify the charter of the department, but this is more of the same crap...."my way or nothing at all", so when they lost the vote creating the department they work to undermine it in other ways.....tough shit. Didn't work.

According to senate rules? But according to rational thought, they are not. One senator is not a session in any logical way. They cannot pass a bill or conduct debate or approve an appointment. Therefore, for the purpose of voting on Obama's appointment, they are not in session.

Czars?
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Czars.pdf

 

[PolitacynicNH]

Hmmmn. This is a Tea Party darling sharing his thoughts... More of this and Congress might occomplish something???
Here’s a pretty clear sign of which way the politics are moving in the fight over Obama’s decision to employ a recess appointment to install Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Senator Scott Brown — who’s facing a stiff populist challenge from Elizabeth Warren, the creator of the agency — has now come out in support of the move. His statement, sent over by his office:

“I support President Obama’s appointment today of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB. I believe he is the right person to lead the agency and help protect consumers from fraud and scams. While I would have strongly preferred that it go through the normal confirmation process, unfortunately the system is completely broken. If we’re going to make progress as a nation, both parties in Washington need to work together to end the procedural gridlock and hyper-partisanship.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/a-telling-sign-scott-brown-comes-out-in-support-of-cordray-recess-appointment/2012/01/04/gIQA8r68aP_blog.html

 

[Kenny]

Obama can break laws because he defeated McCain?

What kind of system is that?

 

[Kenny]

Scott Brown will lose. This gets him nowhere because Elizabeth Warren is a real socialist and Brown can't fake being a socialist.

 

[amfh]

View attachment 313

Here you go

 

[middleview]

Is that a promise that you'll quit bullshitting us?

 

[middleview]

Obama can break laws because he defeated McCain?

What kind of system is that?

What laws have been broken?