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Obama makes 15 recess appointments, blames Republicans
Reuters ^ | March 27, 2010

Posted on 03/27/2010 2:08:22 PM PDT by 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)

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhorecessappointment; congress; liberalfascism; obama; unions
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look up Autogolpe - Presidential Coups d’etat and Regime Change in Latin America and Soviet Successor States. autogolpe suspend the constitution eliminate the congress discharge the Supreme Court. rule by decree. There is th O agenda. The will of the people does not matter it is the will of a despot.


41 posted on 03/27/2010 3:03:16 PM PDT by hondact200 (hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan destroyed by Progressive Liberal Populism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Recess appointments are NOT always a bad thing.
42 posted on 03/27/2010 3:11:34 PM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: shooter223

Preach it, Brother or Sister! LOL


43 posted on 03/27/2010 3:19:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, the Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: hondact200

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


44 posted on 03/27/2010 3:20:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, the Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: shooter223

The guy in your post needs to think about running for national office, or at least a cabinet position in the next conservative administration.


45 posted on 03/27/2010 3:22:46 PM PDT by Canedawg (Deem this regime to hell.)
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To: TigersEye

END THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER!!

IMPEACH THE AMERICA HATER!!


46 posted on 03/27/2010 3:24:28 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off.)
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To: tbw2
Was that actually how Mussolini posed?

Yes, the picture has been around for a very long time, without the BO animation of-course.

47 posted on 03/27/2010 3:24:51 PM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government," said Obama

What?! What does he think *he's* been doing this whole time? They have been TRYING to do their jobs. He's the one blocking at every point. He'll do anything to get what he wants accomplished.

48 posted on 03/27/2010 3:27:42 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery (The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
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To: rlmorel

He even looks like him.


49 posted on 03/27/2010 3:30:02 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Am I wrong, or did the Demon-rats keep Congress OPEN during Bush’s term to prevent him from doing this?

Seems to me the junior senator from VA, James Webb, made an appearance each day during a recess in order to prevent Dubya from making any appointments. Why can't the pubbies do the same thing ... huh?

50 posted on 03/27/2010 3:32:34 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: stephenjohnbanker
One is the former lawyer for SEIU. Also a Marxist, but I lost count of Marxist appointments.

"Just because his policies are socialist and his appointees are Marxists doesn't mean he's a socialist or a Marxist." /BOR brain dead logic.

51 posted on 03/27/2010 3:34:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will be called a racist for this, nonetheless. Obama is living up to all the sterotypes that black people have been labeled with over the years.
He is an arrogant, in your face liar and if you call him on it then you are called a racist bigot who hates poor people.

If we were not racist before, we will be when Obama is done destroying the honest, hard working, middle class white man.


52 posted on 03/27/2010 3:34:49 PM PDT by winodog (We've got more people voting for a living than we do working for a living.")
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To: onyx

Anyone with the arrogance of BO is soon to have the rug jerked out from under them. He is so full of himself it’s positvely sickening. I turn off the TV or radio everytime he comes on. I’m not seeing too many BO bumper stickers anymore. His treatment of Netanyahu may come back and bite him in the as## I hope it does. Don’t the Isrealis have excellent intelligence?


53 posted on 03/27/2010 3:36:05 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Marysecretary

They can only hold office one year. At least, that’s what happened with John Bolton’s recess appointment.

On the other hand, they can do lots of damage in that time...


54 posted on 03/27/2010 3:36:10 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: TigersEye

Why I haven’t watched BOR in 6 or 7 years ;-)


55 posted on 03/27/2010 3:39:21 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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

Craig Becker, union hack and appointee for NLRB, was opposed by a number of Democrats.


56 posted on 03/27/2010 3:55:29 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: A. Morgan

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


You insult jackasses. 0bama is one evil bastard that hates America.


57 posted on 03/27/2010 4:04:01 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rlmorel

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


And end up like Mussolini.


58 posted on 03/27/2010 4:06:07 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Deetes

0bambi must be taking the one term deal to heart .


0bama doesn’t care about a second term. He’ll do as much damage in his only term as possible.


59 posted on 03/27/2010 4:07:48 PM PDT by unkus
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To: tbw2

Was that actually how Mussolini posed?


Yes.

But Mussolini did not hate Italy.


60 posted on 03/27/2010 4:10:44 PM PDT by unkus
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