Senate blocks recess appointments with deal between Dems, GOP

[usregimechange]

Senate Democrats struck a deal Wednesday night with Republicans that will keep President Obama from making recess appointments while Congress is out of town campaigning for the midterm elections.

Democratic leaders have agreed to schedule pro-forma sessions of the Senate every week over the next six weeks, a move that will prevent Obama from making emergency appointments, according to Senate sources briefed on the talks.

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.

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


In other words, Democrats are pussies. They could have called the WH and responded in the following way: "If you send them back again the President will nominate all of them to recess appointments."


Edited to thank DUer Hawaii Hiker for sending this on.

[muntrv]

1. We need a new majority leader to replace Reid.

[usregimechange]

3. I would give a dollar to hear what Leahy thinks about this

[Uzybone]

2. ahhh the Senate

that body needs to be cut up and tossed into the Biscayne Bay, Dexter style.

[Luciferous]

7. :)

[usregimechange]

4. GOP would never do this if they had the majority

[msongs]

5. for Obama it is the Ides of September (metaphorically speaking) nt

[Tesha]

6. Excuse me for being blunt, but "What the fuck is wrong with our elected Democrats?"

Are they completely moronic wimps, or what?

Besides being completely spineless, have they reached
the point where they don't have a single political bone
left anywhere in their body politic?

Did years and years in the minority not teach them
*ONE DAMNED THING* about how to to use raw political
power?

Tesha

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. " have they reached the point where they don't have a single political bone left anywhere..."

"Besides being completely spineless, have they reached
the point where they don't have a single political bone
left anywhere in their body politic?"

Yes, but sadly, it's the spinelessness that allows them to keep that one bone, their skull, firmly up their asses.

It's time to vote out ALL incumbents, set term limits, and start over. I'm sick of corrupt career politicians who have no connection with the common man.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. bringing a spork to a gun fight nt

[jwirr]

10. He is making deals with our appointees so he can be reelected. nt