Obama makes 15 recess appointments, blames Republicans

Reuters ^ | March 27, 2010

[2ndDivisionVet]

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday announced his plan to make 15 recess appointments held up by Republican delays, including two Treasury Department positions and two on the National Labor Relations Board that have been vacant for more than a year.

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The move was likely to intensify an already bitter partisan atmosphere in Washington.

Obama accused Republicans of playing politics by obstructing his nominations, and calculated the appointments had already been held up for an average of 214 days.

"I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government," said Obama, a Democrat, who days ago signed historic healthcare reform in the face of often vitriolic Republican opposition.

The two top Treasury posts are for Jeffrey Goldstein, nominee for Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, and Michael Mundaca, nominee for Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy.

"At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months," Obama said in a statement.

The appointments on the NLRB were Craig Becker and Mark Pearce.

The five-member NLRB decides cases involving workers' rights to form and join unions and the nominations are part of a bigger fight between Democrats alongside organized labor, and the Republican Party and its allies in the business community.(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why even have a congress?

[GeronL]

Anyone remember Miguel Estrada??

[kik5150]

Dictatorships are far more efficient than Democracies.

[Fresh Wind]

The RATS never blocked any of Bush’s nominations, of course.

[A. Morgan]

Zer0 is on the North end of a South bound jackass.

[SmokingJoe]

Why even have a congress?

So he can tell his comrades in North Korea that he is running a democratic government. The current congress is strictly for show.

[FrankR]

The kenyan is just doing what he does best, sneaking, lying and stabbing America in the back...Republicans have nothing to do with that, it's all obama.

He knows the conservatives object to his radical appointments and he knows it's a back door way to get them appointed.

This president is a low-rent, bottom feeder, and deserves to be in prison.

[farmguy]

Do the Republicans even have enough votes to block an appointment?

[Signalman]

Trying to appoint as many communists as possible.

[nutmeg]

My husband said he saw "Obama makes 52 recess appointments" on the Fox News crawl about 2 hours ago...

Is it 15 or 52?

[Marysecretary]

Gee, how many of Bush’s nominees were held up or beaten down??? How soon they forget.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Am I wrong, or did the Demon-rats keep Congress OPEN during Bush’s term to prevent him from doing this? Was it possible for Rs to do this, even if they’re in the minority??

[ronnie raygun]

democratic government, the new play on words meaning communist government. The gullible rats painted themselves into a corner and now they have a community organizer telling them they are irrelevant, inept and useless. I'll agree but someone please tell the emperor he has no clothes and he is clown leader of the clown posse

[ClearCase_guy]

[rlmorel]

I'm guessing he will turn out to be like Mussolini in many more ways than just his arrogant posture.

[haircutter]

Hussein always blames someone...He NEVER takes the blame for anything, I’m surprised he didn’t blame BUSH.

Real transparent!!!

[VRWCTexan]

Posted here also

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2481232/posts

[2ndDivisionVet]

Two Democrats, Lincoln (AR) and Nelson (NE) joined in on the filibuster of that radical SEIU lawyer.

[Vermont Lt]

I appreciate that this type of thing is within the rules. Why can’t he just say that and not have to get into a pissing contest about “they did this, and they did that..”

A Don Corleone said, “Act like a man.”

I wish one of these swishy politicians (from either side) would simply start acting like a man.

[blueyon]

You mean something isn’t directly Bushes fault