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Originally Posted by jms62
Not the Change I was Hoping for when I voted for him. Politics as usual.
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When one party literally says it's only goal is to make sure the President is a one-term President, and blocks routine Senate business at historically-never-before-seen levels, it's about time the President uses the same rules tactics as the several presidents before him to achieve the implementation of a law that was duly passed by that same obstructive Senate.
The law the GOP helped pass requires a head of this agency be appointed. If the GOP didn't like the law, they shouldn't have voted it into being in the first place.
But they did.
Cordray was nominated months ago, and had a majority of support in the Senate via vote - the normal path to nominee approval. It's the GOP using "politics as usual" to halt the complete implementation of a law they already passed, for a chief whom already has received a majority affirmation in the Senate.
With the appointment of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chief, perhaps the headline seen this week, "Massive consumer mortgage fraud by GMAC and Wells Fargo", where they ripped off average people on their mortgages by an extra $1000-$2800 in fees - won't be seen again.
However, you can see why the bank-owned Republican Party has been blocking this appointment. Their Bank masters told them too. Can't threaten to cut the gravy train of consumer fraud.
So have to keep the citizens stirred up and distracted, so that they think passing consumer protection for themselves is a bad thing. Pay those extra false charges buried in the paperwork, citizens! Somebody has all the money - and it's not 80% of the American people.
President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments, all to full-time positions.
President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, 99 were to full-time positions.
President William J. Clinton made 139 recess appointments, 95 to full-time positions.
President George H.W. Bush made 77 recess appointments.
President Ronald Reagan made
243 recess appointments.