After much strategic pissing and moaning on our part, we win one! No Recess Appointments!! Yay!

[Stinky The Clown]

We FINALLY won one. We stopped the recess appointments!

What?

Really? . . . . . . . . . . Us?

[gkhouston]

1. I prefer an unstructured, appointment-free recess.

It keeps my options open as to whether I'll be playing Kick the Can or Dodgeball, two popular DC games.

[jannyk]

2. With friends like these who needs enemies?

:crazy: :hi: :crazy:

[Fumesucker]

3. We can end women's suffrage if we just try hard enough..

/Man Show

[Supersedeas]

18. oh no

[Name removed]

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[TBF]

6. lol :) nt

[HughMoran]

5. Not that facts are relevant, but for those who care...

"

Democrats agreed to the pro forma sessions to keep Republicans from sending Obama's most controversial nominees back to him while lawmakers are out of town. Such a move would have forced the president to resubmit the nominees to the Senate and Democrats to start their confirmation processes (including hearings) all over again.

...
Obama had more than 110 executive- and judicial-branch nominees pending on the Senate’s executive calendar as of Wednesday afternoon.

The Senate approved 54 of Obama’s nominees late Wednesday evening, including a dozen ambassadors, 11 U.S. Marshals and six U.S. attorneys.

The Senate confirmed Sarah Raskin to serve as a member and Janel Yellen to serve as a member and chair of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve. The chamber also confirmed Maria Raffinan as an associate judge of the D.C. Superior Court, the only judicial nominee on the list.
"

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/121775-senate-blocks-recess-appointments

[Stinky The Clown]

7. What's the significance of your sig ine?

[POAS]

13. What does your question have to do with the

facts presented?

[Stinky The Clown]

15. I see by your avatar that you favor the Sox

You an actual fan?

[POAS]

17. Another attempt to deflect and retreat from

actually responding to the facts presented.

Your very practiced at that but not very clever in the way you do it!

[Stinky The Clown]

24. There's no particular need to be clever. The question I asked is about something obvious.

Also, why are you replying when the question was not posed to you? How does it concern you?

[Umbral]

8. Where's Goodwin Liu on that list?

So the Republicans didn't concede a fucking thing.

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[Stinky The Clown]

23. Self delete - wrong place

[Autumn]

12. Quite a few people have them

I was wondering what they are supporting. I asked the same question of one but never got an answer.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Its either about endanger animals or

a secret club with a handshake and password and stuff.

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[Zhade]

20. Who was it? Can you PM me?

I like to dance on homophobes' graves.

[Hekate]

29. It's not what you think

[Warren Stupidity]

22. The republicans gave up nothing in exchange.

They will continue to block all the appointments they feel like blocking. Such a deal.

[madinmaryland]

10. Wouldn't a recess appointment be good only through the rest of the term of this

Congressional Term??

He has made recess appointments.

[ThomWV]

21. The appointments are only good for the Congress during which they are made

Which means they confirmations are only good for 2 years at most, and that 2 years is now whittled down to 3 months.

[treestar]

25. IOW this is much ado about nothing

By those trying to go out of their way to find something wrong.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. Only if ya want it to be, tree, only if ya want it to be.

Most people saw it as the satire intended. But if you wish to see monsters under the bed, you will.

boo

[laughingliberal]

14. K & R nt

[SidDithers]

26. Unrec...

for having the facts wrong.

Sid

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Hey Sid . . . . .

. . . . satire is often fact free.

Not everything is serious. Like this OP. It was sarcastic irony. Satire.

But you can unrec it for any reason you wanna. Thanks for at least manning up and owning your unrec, though.


See ya around campus. :hi: