Aren’t recess appointments only for 6 months and non-renewable?
Yes, but remember when Obola did a recess appointment when the Senate was in session? In 6 months, reappoint a similar and different guy, with the Senate in session.
I thought that recess appointments expire at the end of the particular session of Congress in which they were made...so if McConnell NEVER closes the Senate, there can’t be any recess appointments. This still let’s the Senate go home for vacations, campaigning, etc., since nothing gets to the floor without the Majority Leader’s specific approval.
The Pubbies HAVE to play real hardball...but still produce a budget and do other work to make it look like everything wrong with DC is at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. This shouldn’t be hard, as that’s largely the truth.
I think that impeachment is off the table, though it shouldn’t be. It’s off because there simply aren’t the votes in the Senate. There should be - if the Dems were like they were 50 years ago (i.e. most of them actually loved and cared about their nation). Now, however, it is vastly different. Impeachment can’t work unless you have 2/3 of the Senate, so why bother. It is also something of a “Please don’t throw me in the br’er patch!” thing - Obama REALLY wants it, because it’ll make him the victim and the Pubbies the bad, old, racist party. The Pubbies need to be smarter than that...even though the statist bastard deserves to be impeached and then imprisoned, along with all of his enablers in DC and the press/media.