Obama vs. Congress: There Is No More Compromise
From Charles Pierce:
"If the president really sticks to what he's done today, then we are seeing the belated beginnings of open warfare with the vandals in the Republican congressional caucuses, both in the Senate and in the House. There is no question that the president has the obvious right of things when he says that Richard Cordray is not yet the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because a lot of Republicans in Congress simply don't want a law passed by the Congress and signed by the president to function. They don't want it to function for two reasons, neither of which has fk-all to do with the common good. They don't want it to work because a lot of them have been bribed by the financial-services industries, which really don't want it to work. And they don't want it to work because it might work, and President Obama would get credit from all those people who are sick of being stuck up for fees, and spurious late charges, and by fine print that might as well be written in Klingon. This might help him get re-elected, and the vandals would rather than not happen, thanks, and to hell with the fact that your interest rate just got jacked up a couple of points because the shrimp was warm at the last Bank of America outing.
"I think the Republicans might be getting the message, too, if the wounded bleatings of Mitch McConnell are any indication:
"Although the Senate is not in recess, President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people by 'recess' appointing Richard Cordray as director of the new CFPB. This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer...
"Hold it a minute. A bit of common sense got caught in my throat there. This is Mitch McConnell complaining about someone "arrogantly circumventing the American people"?"
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-richard-cordray-congress-6632899
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