President Obama making recess appointments to labor board, again braving GOP outrage

[___closetome]

President Obama is making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in addition to his appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to Greg Sargent:

Obama is set to appoint Sharon Block, Terence Flynn, and Richard Grifin to the board - something unions have made a big priority for them

Comments

[jettakd]

[fauxdistressed]

GOP outrage?

[bnmc2005]

NICE MACRO!!!

[crossfire]

Unfortunately most Republicans will look at that and say "I TOLD YOU Clinton was a bad president, look at all the recess appointments he made! Almost twice as many as Bush I!"

[very_veggie]

Wow, very telling.

[carmy_w]

Dear obstructionist Congress:

Kindly go F*** yourselves.

Sincerely,

carmy_w.

[emofordino]

cosigned.

[carmy_w]

I was tempted to sign it "for the President", but I thought that would be presumptuous.

[ravenalegria13]

Fuck that I'll do it.

Signed: for the President.

YES

[ilovespooons]

Interesting asides I heard about this:
The senate has been holding hearings where they hold no business to prevent them from officially being recessed and this from happening (which also happened in 07-08 in Bush's term) but Obama went ahead and did it.

At this point in his time in office Bush had appointed something like 60+ recess appointments to 20 something from Obama

[grace_om]

All win for Obama! Even if they find a way to declare these appointments illegal and undo them, he's still drawn a big red arrow pointing right at Republican obstructionist assholes, determined to make government fail regardless of the harm to Americans. He's setting up his campaign to "run against congress" and they're making it so easy.

[carmy_w]

Not to mention that he's very adroitly getting the WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY (I know-except for the 8% or however many that are actually related to them) PISSED AT CONGRESS.

And hopefully, they'll stay pissed enough to vote most of their asses out of there!

(or is that what you meant in the first place? If so, sorry, and you are right on the money!)

[grace_om]

Lol! Yes! That's what I was trying to say!

[carmy_w]

Ok! Guess I need to brush up on my reading comprehension! :D