Obama takes victory lap
By Amie Parnes - 01/06/12 12:45 PM ET
Two days after defying Republicans and appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama visited the new agency to take a little time to gloat.
Making a victory lap of sorts at the independent agency, Obama cracked a joke, telling employees that he came by to help their new director move in.
More seriously, a seemingly content Obama called the man he tapped a “great director who is tailor-made to lead this agency.”With Cordray at the helm, after months of delay, the agency will help Americans better digest mortgages, student loans and credit card fees before they become entangled in debt, Obama said before a packed room of more than 100 CFPB employees.
Did he just say americans are too STUPID to understand a mortgage? Understand a credit card?
Dem NLRB ‘recess’ appointments rushed, don’t appear on White House nominee list
The two Democrats that President Barack Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board during what he considered a congressional “recess” are not on the White House’s official list of Obama’s appointments and nominations for various positions.
Obama referred his two Democratic nominees, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, to the Senate on Dec. 15. The Senate adjourned for the year – but did not go into an official recess — on the following day.
WhiteHouse.gov tracks the status of all of Obama’s appointments and nominations. Block and Griffin do not appear on that list — a sign that the administration rushed the recess appointments through too quickly for the Senate to even consider them.
“It’s hard to argue that the Senate was obstructing these Democratic nominees when they don’t even appear on the administration’s own list of nominations and appointments,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce labor policy specialist Glenn Spencer told The Daily Caller.
Pres Clinton’s justice department, and SCOTUS both ruled that a recess must be > 3 days to be considered a recess. Neither side of the legislature has been out of session for more than 2 days.
The Republicans should send this to the courts, fast tracked, and call for more cooperation with Obama.
EASILY OBSERVED TRAP
However, if Obama goes out of office, unless the democrats in the legislature make a positive move, the sine waves of extreme behavior will only INCREASE in amplitude.
Obama is going to conduct a scorched earth campaign.
If this is going to be Romney, we all had better be ready for him to be portrayed as the handmaiden and protector of the (white) 1%, a prime member of the (white inherited moneyed) 1%, and a proper target of justified incitement, whose prior hob was to buy companies and fire the 99% for his 1% buddies.
Romney should FULLY prepared for this
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