Tuesday, January 10, 2012

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR?...EXCUSE ME...DON'T THINK SO...

Obama’s 2012 Slogan:I Can’t Work with Others

Debra J. Saunders,San Francisco Chronicle

President Obama is running for re-election with an unusual pitch:He can’t work with others.
He only gets along with yes-men. “I refuse to take no for an answer,”Obama said Wednesday of his decision to make a “recess”appointment that placed Richard Cordray as head of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Constitution,of course,gives the president the power to make appointments during Senate recesses. Technically,however,the Senate was in session. The imperial president bypassed Senate rules and years of precedent,because he wouldn’t or couldn’t cut a deal.
Later Wednesday,the White House announced three more recess appointments for vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board. Obama explained:“When Congress refuses to act,and as a result,hurts our economy and puts our people at risk,then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”
Obama,a former constitutional law professor,just kicked the Constitution’s delicate balance of powers by using the executive boot to step on the Senate’s power to advise and consent….
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1 comment:

  1. No, no, no... not a professor.. he was a senior lecturer....big difference. If he were a professor he would have had a requirement to actually WRITE- and Bill Ayers probably did not have time to do that.

    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html

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