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To: Names Ash Housewares; nicmarlo
Obama must go, or nothing else will matter later.

Nah. Nothing to worry about. He'll have four more years and then we can get a real Conservative in the White House. /sarc

Obama Signs Bill Exempting Presidential Appointees from Senate Confirmation

President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday evening that would exempt some senior-level presidential appointees from Senate confirmation.

Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and cosponsored by Republicans and Democrats, the bill, now law, weakens the power of the legislature and strengthens the executive branch, critics have warned. The bill skated through the Senate three months after being introduced in 2011 and was passed by the Republican-controlled House 261-116 in July.

The law now allows Obama and future presidents to name appointees to senior positions in every branch of the administration, from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security.


647 posted on 08/11/2012 9:12:01 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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I thought this was a Constitutional prerogative of the Senate, not a matter amenable to mere legislation. Someone’s going to sue, soon.


664 posted on 08/11/2012 9:18:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: arasina; Names Ash Housewares
Nah. Nothing to worry about. He'll have four more years and then we can get a real Conservative in the White House. /sarc

It's sickly sad reading words from so many who call themselves conservatives, whose choices will knowingly and willfully cause the re-election of a lying, corrupt, Marxist to the White House. omg

678 posted on 08/11/2012 9:24:28 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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