Posted on 12/30/2010 8:52:10 AM PST by Sub-Driver
GOP Fuming Over Recess Appointment of Lawyer Who Compared 9/11 to Drug Trade
Published December 30, 2010 | FoxNews.com
President Obama has outraged Republicans by directly appointing six officials this week without the consent of Congress, including his pick for deputy attorney general, who once compared the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to the drug trade.
The president announced the so-called recess appointments Wednesday, using his power to install sidelined nominees while Congress is on break. They will still need to be confirmed by the Senate before the end of the next session, but the recess appointments allow Obama to break a series of logjams and fill positions that have been vacant for months.
Obama appointed four new U.S. ambassadors, along with the U.S. public printer and the deputy attorney general.
The latter, James Cole, had been in limbo since he was nominated in May, though his name did clear the Senate Judiciary Committee over the summer. Republicans had questioned his past consulting work with bailed-out insurance giant AIG but had been particularly critical of his stance on prosecuting terror suspects.
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So eliminate his position from the budget come January.
Good idea. Reminds me of that old lawyer joke...”pro bono, what’s that?”
The Republicans might question but usually confirm anyway;it is meaniingless drama for the voters back home.How about the Senate NOT confirm these six recess appointees?
The House has to dig in their feet and shut down the government by controlling the purse strings if neccessary to stop this guy obama.
...just imagine the howling response from the hypocrite libtards if this had been Bush... =.=
Gee, they’re “fuming”. I guess that has Zero shakin’ in his flip-flops, eh what??
I see 0bama has his NEW LETS ALL WORK TOGETHER campaign with the GOP in high gear for the New Congress. /sarcasm
This guy is a hyper partisan punk who does’t have the first clue about building a working relationship with people who don’t see things the way he does.
Also just gave Boehner a justifying reason to come into town with guns a blazin, but he most likely won’t anyhow.
“Our country has faced many forms of devastating crime, including the scourge of the drug trade, the reign of organized crime, and countless acts of rape, child abuse, and murder,” he wrote. “The acts of Sept. 11 were horrible, but so are these other things.”
This will be ALL OVER the news tonight! /s
Does not take much of a memory to remember the angst, despair, gloom, gnashing of teeth and predictions that Bush was becoming a dictator over the recess appointment of John Bolton as UN Ambassador.
Didn’t the dems open session for one hour each day to prevent Bush from making recess appointments?
By such empty postering they hope to obtain some cover for failing to stonewall Obama during the lame duck.
Republicans are great at outrage. Unfortunately, they are not so great in battling Dem facists.
The Bambi administration has been referring to Islamic terrorism as simple crime from the very start. And it’s not just this guy, but Bambi and all his minions, from Holder and Hillary on down.
Why are they fuming? The bastards gave this POS a lifeline these pass few weeks! They could have completely immobilize the POS instead they gave in to ALL his agenda demands and threw him a life vest!! The HELL with all of them....ALL OF THEM!! Including the incoming class who will eventually drink the DC water and stab the American folk on the back!!
Kudos on a good point rose, I was about the write the very same point. Our only hope is this guy gets hoisted by his own petard beyond all sense of reason and he gets put out of office.
Lets start a National Revolt and Protest against SNOWE, COLLINS, BROWN and other Revolting RINOS! Another cause for Our Tea Party! Maybe a Campout at Snowe’s and Collin’s Maine and Washington Mansions! Let them know that we are personally holding them accountable for their Obscene and Traitorous Acts Against America’s Constitution and Our America’s Future for Our Children!
You really hit the nail on the head!! Thank you!! With all the labels for this Sleezeball that we have alluded too, PUNK really describes this Scumbag Perfectly!
Zero is just a PUNK that has been selected as Farrakkon announced from His Muslim Polpit, “THEIR PROPHET FROM ALLAH!” What more Proof does America Need? Why cannot Americans believe Farrakkon’s own words? He said “Obama was Selected by Us! He was NOT Elected!” That is true Arrogance coming from one who Hates America! and provided, it is alleged, all of His Personal Bodyguards as Office Staff for Senator Obama.............
That is pretty much what I told a Scott Brown aid- along with the fact that DADT and START should have been held over to the new congress. There was no reason for rushing those things to a vote before Christmas except to avoid putting them before a more conservative congress. - Tom
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