{"id":1000,"date":"2010-03-28T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2010-03-28T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T08:47:14","slug":"recess-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/recess-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recess Appointments!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sorry to see it come to this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPgo\"<\/a> The White House has just announced that President Obama has made fifteen recess appointments, including several for hot-button nominees. These are appointees Republicans refused to allow votes on and for which the president’s supporters have been pressing for recess appointees.<\/p>\n

Notable on the list are Craig Becker to NLRB and Chai Feldblum to EEOC. <\/p>\n

In arguing for the appointments the press release states: "President Bush had made 15 recess appointments by this point in his presidency, but he was not facing the same level of obstruction. At this time in 2002, President Bush had only 5 nominees pending on the floor. By contrast, President Obama has 77 nominees currently pending on the floor, 58 of whom have been waiting for over two weeks and 44 of those have been waiting more than a month."\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019ll be the first one to admit that I screamed bloody murder when Bush did the exact same thing.  But there\u2019s a difference.  Democrats only filibustered most extreme ideologues, and even then, only to sensitive posts.  Ob the whole, the left has been quite disappointed with Obama\u2019s appointments, because most of them are so centrist.  Considering the role we played in putting him into office, he has denied us our fair share of seats at the table.  Still, the GOP had blocked virtually all of them.  Therefore, Obama\u2019s recess appointments are completely justified.<\/font><\/p>\n

For the complete list, click through to the source.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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