Posted on 02/09/2010 4:06:45 PM PST by coaltrain
Major Garrett tweets this response from AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka on the defeat of Craig Becker: "A Republican-led filibuster has put political interests over the needs of America’s working families," Trumka said. "We support President Obama’s expressed willingness to make recess appointments of critical posts in the federal government if that’s what it takes to get around minority delay and obstruction."
You can bet on it.
What happens with recess appointments?
Do they automatically get accepted?
It seems like Jim Webb slept in the chamber or something like that in order to keep President Bush from making recess appointments.
Reps need to keep one stooge in Washington, to block this.
Beat me by 3 seconds.
Then the pubs need to step up!
Snowmageddon makes me type fast.
Why not? Just another nail in Obama's coffin.
Any President can do a recess appointment and it cannot be stopped. The appointment expires at the end of the current Congressional session, which would be January 2011.
And I believe that the President must do it when Congress is adjourned.
That being said, I think a recess appointment would only fan the flames of anger among those who are fed up with the underhanded dealings in Washington.
“Do they automatically get accepted?”
I believe the appointed can serve without a vote until the end of the current Congressional Session (Jan 2011).
“Article II, Sec. 2, of the Constitution says, “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.””
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022251.php
He only got 52 votes. That means that the "delay and obstruction" was BIPARTISAN!
Yep, another one added to the list. Right now I think ZERO needs less not more.
Is anyone planning on reading the bill?
You bet that communists pig King Obama will do it. America is starting to churn and one of these communists moves will set it off.
“He only got 52 votes. That means that the “delay and obstruction” was BIPARTISAN!”
Actually it was SUPER Bipartisan because if 1 Repub votes yes in the house (e.g. health bill) the media calls it “Bipartisan”. So 2 votes on this from Dems is super!
And what is up with the 33 voting to end filibuster? Where are the other 15? Afraid to vote? Or snowed in?
For some reason, the Democrats have sometime in the last year altered their view of recess appointments.
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