Recessing the Republican Block Party!
During the Christmas recess, the President was able to exercise his LEGAL Recess Appointment Powers naming Richard Cordray as the Director of HIS Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with three FEDERALLY REQUIRED replacement members for the National Labor Relations Board and DARED the Tea Partied Republican Block Party to stop the process.
Despite the fact that NUMEROUS Tea Partied Republican Senators, INCLUDING Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, stated that Cordray was a “qualified individual with a good reputation”, Mitch AND Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney DISAGREE with the President’s actions to PROTECT consumers from predatory lenders and debt collection agencies. Mitch said that the President “circumvented the American people.” Romney said that the Consumer Protection Agency was the “worst bureaucratic agency in history.” The “American people” DISAGREE with Mitch and Mitt - 63% of “American people” polled stated that they want financial oversight of lending institutions and debt collection agencies.
Throughout his term in office the President submitted a number of nominees for CRITICAL positions. The Director of Homeland Security nominee was blocked for OVER a year, and numerous federal judgeships REMAIN in limbo because Tea Partied Republican Congressional members refuse to bring the nominations to a vote. Whenever there was a recess, Tea Partied Republican Congressional members, ALSO, blocked the President’s Recess Appointment Powers by holding FAKE Congressional sessions where a handful of Tea Partied representatives sat in their Congressional Chamber seats for about 5 minutes, presented NOTHING, voted on NOTHING then left the building.
If Recess Appointments are the ONLY measure the President has at his disposal to move HIS agenda to protect and assist the “American people” from the DO NOTHING Tea Partied Republican Block Party – so be it!
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