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King Obama: Screw the Constitution, I’m making recess appointments in direct violation of Article II Section II!

What is Article II Section II of the Constitution?

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Presidents from both parties have historically used recess appointments…when the Senate is in recess!  That’s kinda sorta, in a roundabout way, what a recess appointment is.

Well…the current Senate is not in recess.  Yet Chairman Zero says “I don’t care to see it that way”, and so he has intentionally violated the Constitution he has sworn to uphold.  Again.  The man-child rules by fiat.  He appointed his Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head, anti-business Richard Cordray, yesterday.  His justification?

The Senate has effectively been in recess for weeks, and is expected to remain in recess for weeks.

Um…it IS NOT in recess.  I missed the part in the Constitution where “effectively in recess” was located.  If someone could point me to that, I’d appreciate it.

He didn’t stop with Cordray, though.  He “recess” appointed three NLRB appointees, too.

Notes Leon Wolf:

Consider the astonishing timeline here – Obama submitted the names of his proposed appointments two weeks ago - two weeks ago - there has been no filibuster of the appointments; there hasn’t even been a cloture vote scheduled. The Senate hasn’t taken any action one way or another because there’s this holiday that happens in the last two weeks of December that some Americans celebrate, but Reid has kept the Senate in pro forma session, including regular meetings, to preserve the Senate’s prerogative to advise and consent on Obama’s nominees, as it is absolutely and beyond caveat the Senate’s prerogative to do. Thus, despite the fact that the Senate isn’t even dragging its feet on these appointments, and despite the fact that the Senate has been adamant that it is not in recess, Obama has arrogated to himself the power to declare the Senate in recess for them and short circuit the entire Constitutional process for Senate confirmation of Constitutional officers.

In other words, Reid allowed this Senate to be in a pro forma session.

So then Harry Reid, the man who said in 2007 that he was keeping the Senate in a pro forma session to prevent Bush’s recess appointments (and Bush respected the Constitution enough not to fight Reid), definitely has a problem with what B.O. is doing now, right?

Yeah, right:

“I support President Obama’s decision,” he [Reid] said in a statement.

Obama just made Reid and the other Senate Democrats his b#tch, and Reid is totally cool with that.  Of course, he’s been polishing B.O.’s putz for three years, so why stop now?

ObaMao is doing this for two reasons: (1) He has nothing but contempt for the Constitution; (2) he wants a fight with Republicans in Congress in an election year.  You know, so he can run on “Those evil Republicans are wanting to screw consumers in favor of big business, and they’re trying to use a ‘legal technicality’!”  The MSM will, naturally, carry his water, ignoring all Constitutional constraints.

Is this really the road Democrats want to take?  Next year, Republicans will control the Senate, and likely the White House.  So the Dems want to use this club over Republican heads for less than a year while opening up the door for 4+ years of Republicans doing the same thing to them?  Really?

January 5, 2012 Posted by crushliberalism | Constitution, corruption, Obama, shameful | 6 Comments