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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama has made 32 recess appointments. bush 171. reagan 232.
republicans are challenging Obama's right to make recess appointments and have taken their challenge to the supreme court.
oddly the republicans had no problem with mr bush's 171 appointments or reagans 232.
this is how republicans rule.
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Obama has made 32 recess appointments. bush 171. reagan 232. (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2014
OP
To hear Republicans talk, you'd think President Obama is the first to ever use a teleprompter, too.
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2014
#2
Sad. Just more evidence that Obama is unwilling to stand up to Republican obstruction.
Scuba
Jun 2014
#4
Any two party system where one side sees a future full of electoral losses will attack democracy
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#5
malaise
(269,157 posts)1. But but but but
Obama is not a white Anglo-Saxon protestant
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)2. To hear Republicans talk, you'd think President Obama is the first to ever use a teleprompter, too.
They have very convenient selective memories. The other explanation is IOKIYAR.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3. More proof that we have a tyrannical imperial dictator on our hands.
President Rubio can't arrive quickly enough.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Sad. Just more evidence that Obama is unwilling to stand up to Republican obstruction.
Is he complicit? I have to wonder.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Any two party system where one side sees a future full of electoral losses will attack democracy
itself in order to get back into power.
Welcome to the new Republican Party, the losers and anti- democratically.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)6. And we have the basis for the latest republican manufactured outrage. nt
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)7. I don't think that it is "Republicans" who sued over this.
The suit was filed by Noel Canning, a canning and bottling company.
Fed up with the Senate blocking key nominees to administration posts, Obama made the appointments anyway, arguing that the Senate was technically in recess since it wasnt actually conducting business. When the NLRB ruled that Noel Canning, a canning and bottling company, had illegally reneged on a labor agreement with its workers, Noel Canning sued, arguing that the decision was invalid because Obamas recess appointments to the board were unconstitutional.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-may-lose-recess-appointment-power
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-may-lose-recess-appointment-power
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)8. That's the Obama presidency in a nutshell wrt Republicans
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