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Bruno
01-04-2012, 12:43 PM
He was at a town hall covered live by CNN. He must have spent 5 or more boring, pimping, pandering minutes playing on people's fears to announce.

"You need someone (i.e. federal government) to watch out for your best interests." (paraphrase)

He's using the opportunity of a big speech after the Iowa caucuces to give more power to the Federal Reserve, the IRS and the federal governement as a whole. He's trying to get the crowd to rally behind him to pressure Congress to vote to appoint him.

Interesting.

The One
01-04-2012, 12:44 PM
Pimpin ain't easy...

oyarde
01-04-2012, 12:50 PM
OK , I give , what the hell is the role of the "cosumer bureau ch " ? Find THAT in Article One , Section Eight .

Lucille
01-04-2012, 01:04 PM
Denniger says this appointment is illegal.

Another day, another unconstitutional action by our benevolent dictator.

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The problem is that The Senate is not in recess. It is being held open with pro-forma sessions and not gaveled "sin die" for the specific purpose of preventing recess appointments.
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The White House does not have the authority; the Senate session is open.

This appointment is thus illegitimate under The Constitution -- it is an expressly unlawful act and a violation of Obama's oath of office.

Without a lawfully-appointed chair the agency has no right to meet, to spend money, or to promulgate regulations of any sort. It is legally a non-entity.

So now the obvious question is this: Does Congress have the balls to either (1) impeach or (2) de-fund the agency entirely by zeroing its funding, either of which it can do when it reconvenes, or will Congress confirm Obama's status as dictator of The United States through it's failure to so act?

oyarde
01-05-2012, 12:13 PM
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