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Congress "in session" for 20 Seconds today, so GOP can block Obama appointments [Video]

source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/06/1052150/-John-Boehner-claims-House-in-session,-but-...

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House Speaker John Boehner is absolutely "outraged" that President Obama appointed Richard Cordray while the Congress was in "session."

“This is an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department," Boehner said. "The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution."

Where's the catch?

Well, there's a big one. The House Republicans have "gavelled-in" a session of Congress like this every few days in order to claim that they were never in recess.

You see, if Congress doesn't meet for up to 10 days, President Obama can make recess appointments much like he has tried with Richard Cordray, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They have MANDATED that Congress will not bring up any legislative business during these fake sessions.

This morning, Speaker Pro Tempore Jeff Denham, under orders from Speaker Boehner, refused to allow Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn to speak on the floor and call for the payroll tax cut conference committee to get to work. And, actually cut Mr. Clyburn's microphone in the process.

Thus, Speaker Boehner continues his fake outrage while using dodgy and deceitful House practices in order to cut the President off at the knees and gum up the legislative process.

And people wonder why Congress' approval is in the single-digits?



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9 comments // Congress "in session" for 20 Seconds today, so GOP can block Obama appointments [Video] // Video

  • wolfess
    • +1
      wolfess  

    • "The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution."
      Riiiiiiiiiight, and bawlin boehner and his fellow terrorists are in a position to know as they have been doing this for at least a decade! Fuck him and the ASS he rode in on!

    • 5 months ago
  • wolfess
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      wolfess  

    • Let's use the NDAA to indefinitely detain this reptard pondscum -- they are holding this country and US hostage; if that doesn't qualify as terrorism I don't know what does!

      GUILLOTINE these fucking pieces of SHIT!

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • freecrack
    • +2
      freecrack  

    • damn democrats making the republicans work that extra 20 seconds lol.too bad the republicansjust didnt actualy work and do their job all along so this wouldnt be the desperate silliness it is

    • 5 months ago
  • jeffissleeping
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      jeffissleeping  

    • Pro-Forma: (Latin "as a matter of form") is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, perfunctorily, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements.

    • 5 months ago
  • moodyblue
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      moodyblue  

    • They've been playing this petty game since the beginning of his term. This is why I get so pissed off when liberals say... Obama's not doing anything!Well, duh.. when you've got a Congress willing to obstruct in every way they can im surprised he's accomplished anything at all.

    • 5 months ago
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