This is where Obama has now set the bar. From now on Recess appointments will be the standard practice for any nominee who can’t get past congress. The imperial presidency.
This means a Supreme Court vacancy can be filled, without the Consent of Congress, doesn't it?
This is now a Dictatorship, using Executive Orders, un-elected Czars, and Regulatory Agencies to make Congress un-necessary.
How there is not ONE Republican that would challenge the Constitutionality of all this is beyond reproachable; it's Treason, pure and simple.
It’s bigger than that because they aren’t in recess. Even the White House doesn’t claim it’s a recess appointment, they’re doing it because they say the GOP is obstructionist.
By law they can’t do it, but they are anyway because the GOP doesn’t have the cajones to defund and get rid of the department. This is a Constitutional crisis pure and simple.
“GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner called the move “an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department.” “The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution,” the Ohio Republican said in a statement.”
And what is Boehner going to do about it? Nada. And neither will the senate. The GOP has no spine. They ought to initiate impeachment.