[doodad]

It was worse than that. Remember they would open the session, gavel is closed and go home. Took all of 60 seconds of their time.

[chimera]

As soon as the 'Rats took over the Senate, they started that crap. Reid would call the Senate into session, do some minor point of business, then gavel an adjournment (not a recess). They did this on holidays, Christmas and the like, just to spite Bush and circumvent his authority to do recess appointments.

The Constitution allows recess appointments. If he wants to, Obama should just go ahead and do them and stop bellyaching. He may take some flak for it but BFD, Bush and others did for years and they took it like men. But Obama has to act like the petulant child he is and whine about his opponents. If he'd just act like a man for a change and take care of business, he might get more respect than he does from those outside his circle of sycophants and groupies.