Another Obama payback to the unions to buy more elections
Posted on | March 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
WASHINGTON – Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.
The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in the Senate following a long, bruising fight over health care. Obama revealed his decision by blistering Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominees for months solely to try to score a political advantage on him.
“I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government,” Obama said in a statement.
The 15 appointees to boards and agencies include the contentious choice of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans had blocked his nomination on grounds he would bring a radical pro-union agenda to the job, and they called on Obama not to appoint Becker over the recess.
Obama went ahead anyway, while also choosing a second member for the labor board so that four of its five slots will be filled. The board, which referees labor-management disputes, has had a majority of its seats vacant for more than two years, slowing its work and raising questions about the legality of its rulings.
Overall, Obama’s appointments will take place throughout the week, allowing people to make the transition to their new jobs, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. The news of Becker’s appointment drew the bulk of the ire from Republicans.
“Once again the administration showed that it had little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress,” said Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama’s foe in the 2008 presidential election. “This is clear payback by the administration to organized labor.”
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March 28th, 2010 @ 9:06 pm
Beginning in 2009, the United States placed a new government in motion that no longer has any favor and will no longer receive any help from God.
Do not forget “OBAMA ” Is a Devote MUSLIM!! “OBAMA” is only about 1/16 African the rest is a mixture of ARAB (Muslim)
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Legal definition of Natural born Citizen, this is the
U.S. Supreme court ruling late 1700’s early 1800’s and
Still is to this day “A child born on U.S. Soil to
Parents [meaning two (2)] not owing foreign
Allegiance to any other country “OBAMA does not
Qualify [his dad is from Kenya, Non U.S. Citizen], therefore he is not
Constitutionally the Legal President!!!
SOME CONSTITUTIONAL FACTS
(1) Obama is not a natural born Citizen, because of the fact of his Dad being a non U.S. Citizen therefore the most that ” OBAMA ” could be is a ” Native ” Citizen ” that would be The 14th amendment,[ the 14th amendment states any child born on U.S. soil is a Native Citizen of the United States regardless of the status of the parents , but not a Natural born Citizen ](Even if “OBAMA was born in Hawaii) OBAMA’S Legal status is seriously in question, then why would that not have standing in Federal court, because is the bill Legal?
I seen on the news ( #9 , I think ) Last night , that the Obama team is going to use a part of the U.S. Constitution that gives the President Executive Power over any State , So they say they will win with The ” U.S. Constitution ” Then I say bring on the Whole U.S. Constitution!! Let us examine the Eligibility part to see if “ OBAMA “ can prove he is Legally the President via The U.S. Constitution
March 29th, 2010 @ 1:50 am
Bush and Reagan did this waaay more than Obama.