Obama appoints and bypasses congress (impeachable)?

[Pauls' Revere]

http://news.yahoo.com/stymied-congress-obama-boldly-seat-nominees-004836547.html

WASHINGTON/CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A defiant President Barack Obama on Wednesday took his boldest action yet to show voters he will confront Republicans, announcing he will bypass Congress and install nominees into politically sensitive jobs overseeing consumer lending and the labor force.

Obama will make recess appointments placing Richard Cordray in charge of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and to fill three vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board.

The nominees were all facing drawn-out Republican opposition.

The moves sharply escalate an election strategy he kicked off last year of going around Republicans to get things done, tapping into voter hostility toward a gridlocked Congress and hardening the tone of his campaign to win reelection in November.

The announcement incensed Republicans who called the moves unprecedented and portrayed them as possibly illegal because the appointments were made while the Senate is still technically in session.

"This is an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama," House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement. "I expect the courts will find the appointment to be illegitimate."


Is this crap impeachable?

[eduardo89]

No, recess appointments are completely legal and constitutional. George Washington was the first to do it.



The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Article II Section 2 of the US Constitution

That said, congress is irrelevant. Obama has already bypassed congress to go to war so why is anyone surprised about this.

[Pauls' Revere]

However the article mentions that the Senate is technically in session?

The announcement incensed Republicans who called the moves unprecedented and portrayed them as possibly illegal because the appointments were made while the Senate is still technically in session.

So, what now?

[eduardo89]

However the article mentions that the Senate is technically in session?

The announcement incensed Republicans who called the moves unprecedented and portrayed them as possibly illegal because the appointments were made while the Senate is still technically in session.

So, what now?

Oh I thought they were recessed for the holidays. If that's true, then it's a blatant violation of the Constitution. Then again, so was going into Libya.

[Pauls' Revere]

I wonder if the speaker is going to call for it?

I emailed the speaker.

[ShaneEnochs]

It's a gray area. There's like three senators in session for five minutes a day.

[eduardo89]

It's a gray area. There's like three senators in session for five minutes a day.

Then it's in session. The senate is either in session or not. No gray area.

[Lucille]

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?

The obvious answers to Denninger's questions are no, no, and been there, done that.

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"This is an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama," House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement...

But waging wars without CONgressional approval, indefinitely detaining or assassinating American citizens aren't extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grabs. Aren't establishment Republican hacks precious?

[Pauls' Revere]

The obvious answers to Denninger's questions are no, no, and been there, done that.

hxxp://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=200063




But waging wars without CONgressional approval, indefinitely detaining or assassinating American citizens aren't extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grabs. Aren't establishment Republican hacks precious?

Pfft... No kidding they are one and the same party.