Were Bush recess appointments allowed to do through during Dingy Harry’s pro forma sessions?
Bush didn’t make any appointments when the Dems held their “pro forma” sessions.
All his recess appointments were made when Congress was officially in recess.
Bush's version of that was the bill signing statements(dems were crying ‘Dictator’ and ‘unconstitutional’ over those at the time) , which Obama promised not to do and now he is doing them himself for the same reason as he did this, for political reasons.
I am telling you that this issue is going no place for Republicans unless the new agency does something that really draws negative attention to itself that Republicans can use against Obama, maybe like the national labor relations board going after Boeing SC plant did with NLRB.
The agency will (this year) cherry pick cases that look like they are helping the little guy voter to fight the big bad greedy bankers, and Obama is working that into his “Republicans only care about the millionaires and billionaires “ act he used to win the FICA battle.
And it is going no-where in the courts because unlike Obama-care in this case the courts will demand a plaintiff with standing to even look at it which means someone who lost something due to the agencies actions, yep, that greedy banker as Obama will portray it. Then you got the problem that the US constitution doesn't define 'recess'.
The FICA extension battle comes up again soon, Are congressional Republicans going to try to look stupid again or do they actually have a plan this time to put Obama on the defensive? This is turning out even worse than I thought it would.