[MamaLucci]

William B. Cowen and Michael J. Bartlett to the National Labor Relations Board.

Oooh....this will make the libs howl!

[pushforbush]

Yes, the liberals will howl, but they will get no traction with the media. This is big, big news. Bush is a fighter who can keep a low profile to avoid being tagged as "partisan" by the electorate.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bush Makes Recess Appointment to SEC

Excerpt:

Bush appointed Cynthia A. Glassman, a principal at the Big Five accounting firm Ernst & Young. She worked at the Federal Reserve Board from 1977 to 1986 as economist and senior economist and in other positions.

He also reappointed Isaac C. Hunt Jr., a Democrat appointed to the SEC by former President Clinton in 1996.

Bush made the appointments just a day before the opening of the second session of the 107th Congress.

In other recess appointments Tuesday, Bush named:

_Deborah Matz and JoAnn Johnson to the board of the National Credit Union Administration.

_William B. Cowen and Michael J. Bartlett to the National Labor Relations Board.

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[sinkspur]

I wonder if Cynthia Glassman is related to James Glassman, author of DOW 36,000 and an economist with Barron's (I think).

He also hosted a version of Crossfire on a Sunday night for a few months.

[Map Kernow]

I only wish he had made other recess appointments like Eugene Scalia....but I think that one might have been too politically "hot."

[firewalk]

BTTT

[jungleboy]

These recess appointments are BAD POLICY and is taking our government down a nasty road. These cowardly recess appointments are something a crooked politician would do. We do not elect Dictators!

[Askel5]

Is anyone ... anyone at all ... complaining about the recess appointments? Or are we sitting here cheering and slapping each other on the back for beating Clinton at his own game while the Dems sits strangely mute. If there has been outrage, I haven't seen it.

I know and you know it's cheesy to turn around and complain about a tactic your guy has used in spades -- overcoming denied appointments, even. But why would fair play or logic stop the left from bitching about Bush's recess appointments?

Am I missing something?

[PianoMan]

I must confess, there were a few months at the end of last year when W didn't seem to be standing up to Daschle and I was worried he would get rolled over domestically. "Not over my dead body" gave me hope, and this, well this is just great. The sly dog. Every time I lose confidence in this guy he gives me good reason to regain it.

[Cicero]

Thank God. The Labor Relations Board, too! That's big news.

I'm glad Bush finally woke up. Every day he leaves a majority of Clintonoid Democrats in control of these important agencies, he risks big-time damage. If the SEC had come in with a partisan attack on his administration, which these slime are fully capable of doing, the media would jump all over it, and it would be too late to deal with the crisis.

This needs to be done all over the government and its agencies, because it's just not realistic to imagine that the Dems still ensconced in entrenched positions of power will be fair or reasonable or cooperative. They just don't play that way any more, as we have seen time after time the past eight or ten years.

[dodger]

He also reappointed Isaac C. Hunt Jr., a Democrat appointed to the SEC by former President Clinton in 1996. Hunt's term recently expired. A graduate of the University of Virginia law school, Hunt was dean of Antioch School of Law in Washington from 1987 to 1995.

Why???

Antioch Law School Clintonista ...

Why???

[Salvation]

AT WORK!

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I know Clinton pulled the same stunt. But to make a recess appointment one day before Congress gets back in town is just flouting the spirit of the law. Maybe it's legal, but it's still disconcerting.

[Clemenza]

Ms. Glassman has a wonderful reputation at E&Y. My congratulations.

[aristeides]

William B. Cowen and Michael J. Bartlett to the National Labor Relations Board

FYI.