Obama takes down the evil Republicans in Congress - No Lube!!

In a masterful stroke of genius, Obama today made 4 recess appointments, three to the National Labor Relations Board, and one to a new Consumer Protection Financial Position. Normally, these positions require ratification by Congress, though the president can make the appointments without the approval of congress in an emergency, if congress is in recess.

Apparently, the Republicans in congress were impeeding the progress the President wants to bring to this country, so with the Senate out of session for only a single day, the president declared congress to be in recess and made the four appointments without congressional approval.

He may face a few problems in court, since there have now been three precedents established in the supreme court saying that congress must be in recess for at least three days for the president to use his recess appointment powers. To be fair, the Democrat controlled congress Obama was a member of, managed to block all Bush appointments from 2006 to 2008 by using the very same three day rule, and actually argued the case to the supreme court.

No matter. Obama has convinced the rest of the nation and I that Congress is the problem, so a minimum of a three day recess should not be required for him to bypass congressional approval for his cabinet picks. I personally think he should just do away with congress altogether, as they are clearly nothing more than a bunch of obstructionists who are getting in the way of the progress President Obama is trying to bring to this great nation.

 

Nice piece of satire,one would almost think you believed it.....(last paragraph)

 

...and its damn good he did it. The Republicans are essentially blocking any appointment for any reason in any office for any task. This has been going on since Obama got in office. Essentially the Republican led house, and Republican senators simply don't want government to work in any fashion in any way as long as Obama is in office. The GOP stubbornness led to a downgrading of American debt, a recognition that the US govt can't work, endless blackmail...

cripes....the tax cutting GOP house didn't want to allow a tax cut for regular working Americans....because Obama generated it.

Its a relief:

Obama just appointed somebody to Protect Consumers. At the end of last year he got a tax cut paid for regular working Americans.

O_Nation: I know these kinds of things are driving you nuts. I'm sure you are furious!!! In the last two weeks or so...the American government has done a few things....and none of these things are hugely advantageous to incredibly wealthy people.

It must be making you crazy!!!!

 

Absolutely! I don't see why we need a congress at all! Obviously they are not doing their job and getting in the way of the presidents agenda, so I don't think any of the laws and court precedents regarding balance of power should apply.

If congress won't approve his budget, he should just spend the money anyway.

If he doesn't like the laws he is supposed to enforce, and should simply refusing to enforce them.

If congressional reps refuse to tow the line, he should jail them. He is, after all, the commander and chief of the armed forces.

You think I'm joking, I know, but I'm being dead serious here. You are absolutely right in pointing out that the congressmen have been using the law of the land to block Obama's appointments, and at some point, he needs to say enough is enough. The law no longer applies! What the hell do we need due process for when its just slowing things down. What is the point of being a leader if people won't follow? Make them follow I say.

Obama finally has the skilled people he needs to get things done in place. Take Sharon Block for instance. On her resume you will find the following:
Fields of Interest: Early America, History of Sexuality, Gender, Law and Society, Race and Slavery, Comparative Colonialism, Digital Humanities

Top talent!


Speaking of keeping getting rid of problems, here is some of the legislation Obama signed into law over New Years.

 

...and here is what American's think...they are in deep agreement with you. They despise Congress: they not only HATE Congress...but the GOP's own handpicked pollsters...Rasmussen gets to report it...

Essentially American's view Congress as the equivalent...even worse than the worst you can think of. The GOP Congress has rendered the nation's government entirely non functional and Americans can't stand it. Its the virtual equivalent of breaking the rule of law...making the government entirely non functional.

Meanwhile, in one additional glimpse into the way the Right Wing views the "rule of law"...the Iowa caucus elections were the first example of the recent ruling by the extremist Right Wing Supreme Court...that opened the door for untold millions of dollars to be spent by unaccountable, unknown billionaires on behalf of their candidates', whom they buy and sell through Super Pacs' officially non aligned with anyone and with zero accountability.

btw: those unrestricted super Pacs...just skewered the candidate you were rooting for just a few days ago Newt Gingrich. LOL interesting turnaround.

The rule of law is critically important, in my perspective. The actions of the Right Wing are perverting it in a way that is damaging to the fabric of the nation.

Meanwhile, Obama appointed someone to protect consumers....and some other people so that the NLRB so they could have a quorum and do what they are supposed to be doing.....by law.

Endlessly blocking those appointments for purely political reasons is the perversion of the rule of law...not the other way around.

 

Well you are clearly out of step with the rest of the nation. We want progress, laws and process be damned. If the Republicans in congress want to obstruct and refuse to be lead, they should be forced to follow, and as you pointed out, America agrees!

North Carolina's Democrat governor Bev Perdue recommended that we suspend elections, and I couldn't agree more. Obama needs to be given more powers and these distracting elections are simply exacerbating our problems. He needs to be able to protect consumers and the NLRB needs to protect the middle class by increasing the presence of Unions in the private sector.

We also need to stop the congressional witch hunt that is falsely accusing the ATF of selling thousands of high powered weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels. If we just outlawed firearms, there would be no need to track the sale of weapons.

Obama needs more power to protect us, and elimination of these cumbersome laws and procedures(As they apply to the president) is the answer.

Edit: BTW, I didn't see your comments on the NDAA, which allows Obama to incarcerate without charges or trial. I see that as a good thing! He's keeping us safe. You agree?

 

Couple of years ago, the right wing Republicans were calling anybody who was against imprisonment without proper charges or trial terrorist sympathizer. Now you have a situation that Americans can be imprisoned or even killed without charges or due process. I wonder how long it takes before government come out and admit that Americans can be even tortured. The sick people behind people like Bush and Chaney finally get the type of government that they were dreaming about, a dictatorship.

 

Pres. Obama is no doubt cleaning the US administrations of individuals who are not actually needs and just a waste of time. I expect more moves from Pres Obama that will probably - or quite probably give the US a heads up on what is really happening.

 

Last time I checked, it was Obama who is our president. Sounds like you'd like to give this a pass.

 

Not at all, I just don´t think that it matters who is the president or which party has the majority in house or senate. This is a car with no brake and in a steep downhill, no one can stop it anymore.

 

Even a car with no brakes comes to a stop when it comes in contact with an object of greater mass that is not moving, or moving in the opposite direction.

 

That is correct but usually in an accident that destroys the car and possibly the wall in front of it. I believe that USA will be facing a period of harsh dictatorship which will either cause the population to wake up and revolt against the establishment or live under it for a long time until it destructs itself. Either way, it will not be good for common man on the street.

 

I suppose that is one possible outcome. The truth is, the US is really no more oppressive than any other first world country. People who bitch about the intrusive natures of our laws have the option to move to France, the UK, Canada, etc. You don't exactly see a stream of people fleeing the "oppressive" USA because it isn't any better anywhere else worth living.

Perhaps we, as a generation, are just sad to see the days when you could drive in the US, or any other country with a beer between your legs and a shotgun in the back window.

 

That is not totally true. While oppressive governments are becoming more and more common in Europe thanks to meddling of USA and buying their politicians, there are still many countries that rule of law matters. Your argument about people not moving away from USA is the other side governments argument that if we don´t give everything to the bankers and CEOs, they are all going to move to the other countries.
The same way that whole Asia is not waiting to hire all these bankers and CEOs, the majority of all Americans have no way to move to another countries because of immigration regulations and financial problems. It is not easy to move when you don´t have the possibilities.

 

Massively timely question. What has this to do with Internet Marketing?

Norm

 

Massively timely question. Are you able to read? You are in the wrong section of the forum if you are looking for Internet Marketing discussion.

 

Massively timely question,if internet marketing is your thing,why are you reading posts on a political+religious forum?

 

And this is why I would love to give out greens in P&R. Great responses yet again gworld.

 

What a load of hooey. We have more people in prison in the US because we have the money to police a population this size. Most other places, you can still drive with a beer between your legs because there simply are not as many police, nor the ability to process and incarcerate all the violators.

As far as moving to one of these so called "less oppressive" locations, I find your argument to be extremely weak. My parents moved to the US from Canada when they were young and broke. The Jews flooded into many European nations after fleeing Germany and Russia. Thousands of immigrants from Mexico and Asia wash up on America's shores with nothing and do quite well. If having the cash to move is a problem, very few people seem to let it stop them from moving IN to the USA.

And regarding immigration regulations, I will grant you that very few places on the planet are as lax about accepting immigrants as the US. You enter without a visa or overstay your visa in most places, you get deported or jailed, and they don't hand out residency without proof of 100k in the bank and an income stream. That said, the US passport is possibly the single most widely accepted travel document on the planet, automatically granting a 90 day tourist visa to most nations on the planet. I used to travel with a pack of Australians(another country with a widely accepted passport), and they would consistently overstay their visas and work under the table for a year at a time at various spots around the planet.

 

As usual when you don´t have an answer, you make up something that supposedly the other person has posted and then answer your BS. Wake up, people are not stupid and everyone can see that you are not answering the question. Has anybody seen in my post any mention of driving with a beer between your legs??? Most countries laws are harsher than USA for driving with drinks in the car or DUI.
I am talking about the loss of person freedom, loss of bill of rights and the emerging dictatorship which is USA becoming. If you honestly didn´t understood my posts the first time that you read it, then please read it again since other people seems have no problem comprehending it.