Gongress IS acting- they are STOPPING you from appointing this lunatic to be in charge of the insane asylum
Republican Senators should bombard the media with one question:
Who is Miguel Estrada!
This vacancy pre-dated the recess and was already under consideration by the Senate, and Cordray could not clear the hurdles. Obviously, the Senate thought there was no emergency or hurry. They left on vacation.
Unconstitutional because it was not a "happen during recess" issue.
Unconstitutional because the original constitution, with long periods for travel and communication, set this up for emergency vacancies, which this was not.
Unconstitutional because Cordray, even in a recess, cannot be "appointed". He could only be given a commission that automatically expires at the end of the Congressional session.
Congress has the power of the purse strings.....
Simply defund the entire department.
He can appoint all he wants, but where will the funds come from?
This was not a “recess” appointment. Technically the Senate is not in recess but they are all out of town.This appointment should be challenged on those ground but I doubt we’ll see anything from the spineless Repubs.
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The Chicago Punk is jab-pushing Uncle Sam, sayin’ “What ya gon’ do ‘bout it?” He has back up positioned around the corner, under the manhole covers, hiding in doorways ready to riot, and knows he can get what he wants in this street fight.
The rest of us wait along with Congress for that day we can vote the SOB out of office, go in, and clean up the mess.
We have to have Gingrich. HE IS American.
The consumer advocate crowed is almost exclusively leftist malcontents. This is about campaign strategy and nothing else.
Opposing Obama in anyway is RACISM.
If I am going to be labeled a racist for opposing him, so be it and more importantly, BRING IT ON.
We are headed for a fight one way or another, so it might as well be now.
I’ve had enough....and I’m not alone..
This is an outrage.
If this stands, Obama is the dictator that we thought he was.
but wait- the Republicans dont control the Senate...this is Harry Reid’s boys and girls club
Also, since Harry Reid invoked the "nuclear option" earlier this year, no one can raise a stink when the Republican-controlled Senate does it next year. Its no longer the "Nuclear Option," its the "Reid Option."
I thought a recess appointment was only good until the end of the current Congress which is the first week of January 2013? Or has Obama fudged that as well?
A second term of this would be the end. He cannot do this without enablers. Just like DOE loans, DOMA, fast and furious, vetting...
Obama’s getting in practice for how he intends to rule following his re-election in November. What separation of powers?
The GOP is rapidly becoming not only the Stupid Party but also the Cowardly Party!
Obama’s move isn’t even valid under the statute creating the CFPB: The law apparently states that the Director must be confirmed by the Senate and not appointed to trigger empowerment:
“Sources tell Capitol Confidential that the statute creating the CFPB demands that the director be confirmed by the Senate—not installed via recess appointment—to trigger the agency’s shift from Treasury to the Fed and empower the Director.
But not so outraged as to vote a Bill of Impeachment.
And that's the problem, isn't it.
ML/NJ