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Courts and Congress give Obama adult supervision (Obama failing on many fronts)
Washington Post ^ | Apr 23, 2013 | George Will

Posted on 04/27/2013 1:51:35 PM PDT by what's up

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.), chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision.

Barack Obama used a recess appointment to make Cordray director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But a federal circuit court has declared unconstitutional three other recess appointments made the same day because the Senate was not in recess. So Hensarling has told Cordray not to testify before his committee: “Absent contrary guidance from the United States Supreme Court, you do not meet the statutory requirements of a validly serving director of the CFPB, and cannot be recognized as such.”

Last week the Federal Aviation Administration promoted chaos in travel by furloughing air-traffic controllers, supposedly because the cuts from the so-called sequester — amounting to 4 percent of its budget — cannot be otherwise implemented. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) notes that the FAA says its 15,000 air-traffic controllers must be furloughed in the same proportion as its 32,000 other employees, who include librarians, historians, speechwriters, PR people, congressional and White House liaisons and many others perhaps less essential to the FAA’s primary mission than are people in O’Hare’s control tower.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cfpb; faa; fisker; obama
Although electric cars are 40 percent powered by coal, that being the percentage of U.S. electricity generated by coal, Fisker was supposed to combat global warming, of which there has been essentially none for 15 years

Some nice tidbits in this column. I haven't really enjoyed Wills' columns for some time but this is a great one.

1 posted on 04/27/2013 1:51:35 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

Obama is an idiot! Impeach the criminally incompetent, negligent, usurper!!


2 posted on 04/27/2013 2:03:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree with Jim, he has failed on ALL my fronts!!!


3 posted on 04/27/2013 2:12:16 PM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: what's up
Adult supervision?

I'm afraid that it is going to take more than that.. White House releases Obama's medical records..

:)

4 posted on 04/27/2013 2:22:04 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Colorado Cowgirl
When only a Presidential "Face Palm" will suffice.


5 posted on 04/27/2013 2:23:14 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: what's up

“Courts and Congress give Obama adult supervision...”

Well, he certainly needs it.


6 posted on 04/27/2013 2:24:52 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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You cannot “suoervise” Obama, any more than you could “supervise” Idi Amin.


7 posted on 04/27/2013 2:42:43 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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8 posted on 04/27/2013 3:23:13 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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