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spanone

(135,772 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:32 AM Jun 2014

Obama has made 32 recess appointments. bush 171. reagan 232.

republicans are challenging Obama's right to make recess appointments and have taken their challenge to the supreme court.

oddly the republicans had no problem with mr bush's 171 appointments or reagans 232.

this is how republicans rule.

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Obama has made 32 recess appointments. bush 171. reagan 232. (Original Post) spanone Jun 2014 OP

But but but but malaise Jun 2014 #1

To hear Republicans talk, you'd think President Obama is the first to ever use a teleprompter, too. Arkansas Granny Jun 2014 #2

More proof that we have a tyrannical imperial dictator on our hands. onehandle Jun 2014 #3

Sad. Just more evidence that Obama is unwilling to stand up to Republican obstruction. Scuba Jun 2014 #4

Any two party system where one side sees a future full of electoral losses will attack democracy Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #5

And we have the basis for the latest republican manufactured outrage. nt stevenleser Jun 2014 #6

I don't think that it is "Republicans" who sued over this. Nye Bevan Jun 2014 #7

That's the Obama presidency in a nutshell wrt Republicans MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #8

malaise

(268,609 posts)

1. But but but but

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:37 AM

Jun 2014

Obama is not a white Anglo-Saxon protestant

Arkansas Granny

(31,504 posts)

2. To hear Republicans talk, you'd think President Obama is the first to ever use a teleprompter, too.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:43 AM

Jun 2014

They have very convenient selective memories. The other explanation is IOKIYAR.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

3. More proof that we have a tyrannical imperial dictator on our hands.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:43 AM

Jun 2014

President Rubio can't arrive quickly enough.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. Sad. Just more evidence that Obama is unwilling to stand up to Republican obstruction.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:47 AM

Jun 2014

Is he complicit? I have to wonder.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

5. Any two party system where one side sees a future full of electoral losses will attack democracy

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:56 AM

Jun 2014

itself in order to get back into power.

Welcome to the new Republican Party, the losers and anti- democratically.

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)

6. And we have the basis for the latest republican manufactured outrage. nt

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:56 AM

Jun 2014

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

7. I don't think that it is "Republicans" who sued over this.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:57 AM

Jun 2014

The suit was filed by Noel Canning, a canning and bottling company.

Fed up with the Senate blocking key nominees to administration posts, Obama made the appointments anyway, arguing that the Senate was technically in recess since it wasn’t actually conducting business. When the NLRB ruled that Noel Canning, a canning and bottling company, had illegally reneged on a labor agreement with its workers, Noel Canning sued, arguing that the decision was invalid because Obama’s recess appointments to the board were unconstitutional.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-may-lose-recess-appointment-power

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

8. That's the Obama presidency in a nutshell wrt Republicans

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 10:11 AM

Jun 2014

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
- Winston Churchill

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