BULLETIN: Obama announces more than a dozen recess appointments

Twitter ^ | March 27, 2010 | marcambinder

[VRWCTexan]

BULLETIN: Obama announces more than a dozen recess appointments, including NRLB nominee Craig Becker. 3 minutes ago via Tweetie

Appointments include 5 members of EEOC, senior DHS management offcial, CPB...

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[VRWCTexan]

Via twitter

OLC head Dawn Johnsen not included, but Chai Feldblum is. 15 total.

[VRWCTexan]

Just on Twitter so far - will hit the wires in about 10 minutes - Free Republic beats AP once again !

[Terry Mross]

Is anyone surprised? We let this government go too far a long time ago.

I wonder when he’ll appoint Bill Ayers to something. Ayers was in the White House three times. What do you think he was doing there? Helping write the healthcare bill and that’s probably where the student loan provision came from.

[VRWCTexan]

FYI “marcambinder” = The Atlantic’s politics editor and CBS News consultant

[Stosh]

Another bold gesture by “the One” to bring us all together in his tranquil post-partisan world.

[massmike]

read later

[K-oneTexas]

Thanks. Nothing new in recess appointments ... will be nice to see the names and the backgrounds/CV eventually.

[VRWCTexan]

BREAKING now on Fox News - includes several that COULD NOT make it thru Senate

Includes SEIU lawyer Becker to Nat. Labor Relations Board...

[Freddd]

Craig Becker....oh my...

[scott7278]

FNC just came with an alert and said Craig Becker(sp?) was appointed to the labor board when Obama was specifically asked not to do so by the 41 Republicans in the Senate.

[Terry Mross]

Once again it’s “I won. Get used to it.” I never liked this guy but I now detest him. Is there a stronger word I can use?

[Oldexpat]

What’s new. He appoints a bunch of crooks? Nothing new about that. One by one we now need to pick them off(note the play on words). They should be easy targets to expose.
It is more embarassing to have them resign.

[lucky american]

Feldblum, Boy, I wonder how she feels about the way Obama has treated Israel?
Oh, wait Jews love Obama, would follow him right into the ovens.

[scott7278]

Personally, I believe that recess appointments should only be for the period between Congresses, not brief breaks.

[VRWCTexan]

All 41 Senate Republicans wrote Obama this week urging him not to use a recess appointment for Becker, a former top lawyer with Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO.

The Chamber of Commerce also wrote Obama on behalf, it said, of 20 business groups that oppose Becker’s nomination

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/27/will-he-or-wont-he-anxietyanticipation-build-over-possible-obama-recess-appointments/

[Yo-Yo]

And the left had a cow when Dubya appointed UN Ambassador John Bolton in a recess appointment.

[marstegreg]

So, what this tells me is that he doesn’t think these people could get past a heavily Democratic Congress and Senate?

[Perdogg]

You mean between sessions, right? Once there is a new Congress he has to get congessional approval.