xblade on January 4, 2012 at 10:23 PM

They won’t address that point. They are pretending that it doesn’t exist. That way they can pretend to legitimately say, “Bush did it too!”.

I’ll be the first to say it on this thread: IMPEACH NOW!

annoyinglittletwerp on January 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM

Agreed. This demagogue needs to be removed from office ASAP.

Please don’t let the fact that gwb made nearly 200 recess appointments interfere with your ill-informed, yet highly entertaining, discussion.

benny shakar

Here’s a fact for you….congress isn’t in recess, making your point…..stupid. But you’re a lib, so that’s to be expected.

Think Ford Motor Credit and any care dealers that offer financing. Ford Motor Credit was denied bank status by the Feds even though GMAC was given bank status at the same time. GMAC is now Ally. This all occurred around the time of the government take-over of GM and Chrysler. I can’t recall what happened with Chrysler’s financing arm, or if they used GMAC, too.

totherightofthem on January 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM

Chrysler Financial was bought by TD Bank earlier last year, so is regulated under the banking laws. I believe Ford and Toyota both have nonbank finance companies.

In 2010, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to the Supreme Court the Obama administration’s view that recess appointments are only permissible when Congress is in recess for more than three days. Here’s the exchange with Chief Justice John Roberts:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And the recess appointment power doesn’t work why?

MR. KATYAL: The — the recess appointment power can work in — in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days. And — and so, it is potentially available to avert the future crisis that — that could — that could take place with respect to the board. If there are no other questions –

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.

Please don’t let the fact that gwb made nearly 200 recess appointments interfere with your ill-informed, yet highly entertaining, discussion.

benny shakar on January 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM

Please don’t let the fact that gwb made nearly 200 recess appointments interfere with your ill-informed, yet highly entertaining, discussion.

benny shakar on January 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM

No room for facts here. This is Hot Air.

Constantine on January 4, 2012 at 5:56 PM

Troll Tag Team! Just like the good old days of Bleeds Blue, GrowFins, getalife, etc.

Lying with your “facts” will only be believed by your Fellow Democrats.

Over an 8 year period, Bush in fact made 171 Recess Appointments; 40% of those were for part time positions only.

On the other hand, Democrat President Bill Clinton made 139 Recess Appointments; 30% were part time.

By the end only of his second year in Office, your Dear Leader had already made 28 Recess Appointments. 100% of them full-time, unlike Bush. That puts him on a pace, if he is re-elected, to make as many as Clinton.

Source: US Congressional Research Service.

http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid=%270DP%2BP\W%3B%20P%20%20%0A

F- to you both, as usual.

Please don’t let the fact that gwb made nearly 200 recess appointments interfere with your ill-informed, yet highly entertaining, discussion.

benny shakar on January 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM

Not one when Congress was in session. Not one when Hypocrite Reid did these exactly the same sessions to not allow recess appointments.

Reid also did the Nuclear Option and changed the rules to stop a Filibuster.

Seems the Democrats could care less about the constraints of the Constitution. Or Common Law as in this case.

Wow, I misread that opening sentence of Ed’s. Has this ever been done before. I know there have been recess appointments but has it been done during a pro forma session?

Cindy Munford on January 4, 2012 at 1:27 PM

FDR did it sometimes over a 2 day weekend. Course he broke the Constitution several times only got stopped when he tried to pack the Supreme Court with more Judges.

Please don’t let the fact that gwb made nearly 200 recess appointments interfere with your ill-informed, yet highly entertaining, discussion.
benny shakar on January 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM

No room for facts here. This is Hot Air.

Mimzey on January 4, 2012 at 2:39 PM

LOL!
Don’t you know, I’m all for blacks having their own markets?

The Executive is too big. The Legislature doesn’t grow as the “government expands.”

“The bureau’s goals include watching for major violations of mortgage disclosure laws and other infractions at the firms that could cause consumers to unwittingly sign up for risky loans. It also scrutinizes whether credit card forms issued by big banks are misleading.”

You’ve heard of the global financial crisis, right?

Constantine on January 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM

LOL, Consumers have to be protected from unwittingly taking out risky loans? You don’t see anything wrong with that statement? So someone needs to stop evil banks from forcing people to borrow money they can’t pay back?

theCork on January 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM

Impeachment means nothing. Conviction is all that matters. Chance of that – absolute zero.

Samantha on January 4, 2012 at 11:03 AM

This has as much meaning as the birther lawsuits – none.

THAT ought to be part of the question statement – ‘how can the President boast he kept Congress in session, AND make a ‘recess’ appointment??’

rayra on January 4, 2012 at 5:05 PM

Heh. Good catch.