Maddow: GOP Blocks Everything Obama

[Grassy Knoll]

Run time: 03:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28oVxQWiE4o   Posted on YouTube: June 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: amnewswatch Views on YouTube: 3   Posted on DU: June 22, 2011 By DU Member: Grassy Knoll Views on DU: 1442

 

[AsahinaKimi]

1. Republicans..

Trying to make government so small they can drown it in a bath tub. meh...

[KT2000]

2. they could care less

about this country. All they stand for is petty fighting and obstruction.

[Tx4obama]

3. K & R nt

[Rhiannon12866]

4. K&R! Off to The Greatest Page!

Rachel is just the best! :patriot: Thanks so much for posting this! :)

[SemperEadem]

5. however, Obama can still adjourn congress and make the appointments

yes, it's in the constitution:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-arkush/republicans-do-not-have-t_b_880968.html

"Here's the rule:

Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

That's Article I, section 5, clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution. You have to hand it to the House Republicans. They read the Constitution.

But they may not have read the whole thing. A little bit later -- in the very same Constitution -- is this passage on presidential powers:

shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

That's Article II, section 3, clause 3 (the emphasis is mine, not the founders'). Yes, you read it correctly."

[Dj13Francis]

6. This sucks.

There ain't one of them ass clowns with a shred of integrity.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. This is exactly why you don't give them things without getting something in return. n/t