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  1. Chait’s being more than a bit disingenuous. Did he complain when the Democrats used the same non-recess tactics to stymie Bush?

    As for the recent appointees, Congress has one interesting weapon: pass a bill forbidding the use of any federal money to pay the holders of these positions until they’ve been confirmed by the Senate. I doubt they’ll want to work for free.

  2. I get a lot of abuse when I say the Constitution has been rendered a dead letter. Then another news cycle confirms my view.

    A commenter elsewhere observed that the notion of recess appointments has been abused for generations. The constructionist version holds that appointments may be made only for offices *which become* vacant during a recess. Those which were vacant and go unfilled were to remain vacant. That’s a check against Executive over-reach.

    I haven’t read up on that line of argument. It is however moot when the Executive decides he will not be bound by the rules of Congress or the text of the Constitution.

  3. The appointment of stealth radicals is a key element of the Left. From library boards to the EPA this is how the elites govern. The true radical is not yesterdays statesman, but a ruthless advocate. If you haven’t been following the soap opera at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a google search is worth while. Chairman Jaczko was Harry Reids man, who’s sole job was to sink the nuclear wast disposal site in Nevada. Pres. Bush appointed him in exchange for other appointments from Harry Reid. But Jaczko has little time for collegial action. The other four commissioners (two democrats and two republicans) have publicly accused Jaczko of harrassment and intimidation. The hearings before Rep. Issa’s committee are priceless video.

    BUT, he got the job done of stopping Yucca Mountain so his lack of civility or professionalism is excused. President Obamas “recess” appointments need only do a few things in their hopefully short terms to earn their leftist stripes.

  4. What stops this sort of thing? Nothing except “a nipponized bit of the old Sixth Avenue El.”

    Which is why it will continue.

  5. Tom: The scrap from dismantling that line in 1939 is alleged to have been sold to Japan’s war effort.

    vanderleun reached a Dennis Miller level of obscurity with that reference. 🙂

  6. So the Chamber of Commerce (Registered Trademark)(a division of Mega Corp and in no way affiliated with the people of the United States) doesn’t want any appointment – which they told their Senate paid drones not to ever look at – will go to court against to prevent what the law passed by the Legislature requires.

  7. So now we have our very own “Il Duce,” I shoulda guessed it from the head tilt of our very own pantywaist wunnabe.

  8. Wolla Dalbo @ 11:59 . . .

    I remember when Obama first came out with that fascist poster/logo/head tilt. I couldn’t believe that so many people didn’t catch the fascist reference in the Obama advertising and logos.

    I was amazed, and still am, that Obama telegraphed his intentions so clearly, and the media fools, who clearly have no education whatsoever, missed all the blatant Mussolini references.

    WTF?????

  9. It is not
    economy
    that matters,
    when one loves.
    If we have
    you and me
    and you know
    who I am
    And I know
    who you are
    that’s enough
    for blessings.

    I will be
    since I will,
    and I will
    since I am!

    Get the thing!
    Beginning
    sexual,
    lacks the full.
    Who will care
    for children
    and secure
    the future?

    Ding an sich
    in itself
    remedies
    subjectivitity

  10. Anyone remember my point at how the soviets referred tp the new state as a

    Sovereign democracy (Russian: суверенная демократия, suveryennaya demokratiya) is a term that with regard to Russian politics was first used by Vladislav Surkov on the 22nd of February 2006 in a speech before a gathering of the Russian political party United Russia[1]. According to Surkov, sovereign democracy is:

    a society’s political life where the political powers, their authorities and decisions are decided and controlled by a diverse Russian nation for the purpose of reaching material welfare, freedom and fairness by all citizens, social groups and nationalities, by the people that formed it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy

    What is missing in western attempts to make sense of Putin’s Russia is an insight in the political imagination of the current political elite in Moscow. What is missing is an interest in the arguments with which the regime claims legitimacy. <Carl Schmitt could be right when some fifty years ago he noted that “the victor feels no curiosity”.

    Sovereignty, a recently published volume of ideological writings edited by Nikita Garadya presents a promising opportunity to glimpse into the political imagination of Putin’s elite.

    The volume is a compendium of excerpts from the president’s state of the union speeches, newspaper interviews with one of his possible “successors” (deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev), the legendary February theses of Kremlin’s ideologue-in-chief Vladislav Surkov delivered in front of the activists of United Russia, and a dozen essays and interviews in the tradition of enlightened loyalism.

    The book’s ambition is to define and develop the master-concept of Kremlin’s newfound ideology: the concept of sovereign democracy.

    Not keeping up with the stuff that others are doing and that our state copies is really foolish… not the least of the foolishness is to think that none of that exists, there is no lineage to it, and that the armchair musings in ignorance would conclude whats going on absent knowledge they don’t believe or are aware exists…

    and since the new order has decided fascist communism to be the end:

    Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) – the crown jurist of the Third Reich and the leading figure of the modern European anti-liberal tradition – is the other powerful intellectual presence that can be detected in the official philosophy of the new Russian sovereignists. His influence can be felt in many of the pages of the book but his “Nazi connection” made him unpublishable in a Kremlin-inspired book.

    and

    By nationality the concept of sovereign democracy is Ukrainian. It has its origin in the Kremlin’s conceptualisation of the orange revolution (orange technologies in Kremlin’s terms) of November 2004 to January 2005 in Ukraine. This lineage can be tracked in Surkov’s thesis, reprinted in Sovereignty. Sovereign democracy is Moscow’s response to the dangerous combination of populist pressure from below and international pressure from above that destroyed the Leonid Kuchma regime.

    leading to:

    In the regime of “directed democracy” that Putin inherited from Boris Yeltsin, elites deployed such institutional elements of democracy as political parties, elections, and diverse media for the sole purpose of helping those in power to stay in power. Elections were held regularly, but they did not provide an opportunity to transfer power, only to legitimise it. The “directed democracy” of the 1990s, in contrast to the classical models of managed democracy, did not imply a ruling party to manage the political process. The key to the system was the creation of a parallel political reality. The goal was not just to establish a monopoly of power but to monopolise the competition for it.

    Any of this seem familiar?

    …directed democracy reflected the strange relations between the rulers and the ruled…

    Stephen Holmes has acutely portrayed this relationship: “Those at the top neither exploit nor oppress those at the bottom. They do not even govern them; they simply ignore them.”

    Think Obama ignores the people? wonder why? All you have to do is understand the literature that they read and apply like fashion fads for people who have few original ideas themselves! from Herbert Marcuse in the 60s to Friedan, to Fujiyama, to stuff like this…. if you know the lineage of thought and know what they are reading and are influenced by, then you have a good idea what is generating their ideas about things.
    [edited for length by n-n]

  11. Now do you think he will stop at just one?
    of course not…

    he can appoint and change things way before we can bring his actions up before a force that could limit him… ie, the lag between action and negation that leaves a open run for despotism if it can be done fast enough to negate the action that came later abusing the lag, or negate the action through stacking the deck with like minded people…

    http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpps/news/obama-cordray-as-consumer-agency-chief-dpgonc-20120104-fc_16801655


    President Obama announced today his intent to recess appoint four individuals to fill key administration posts that have been left vacant,” the release said, noting that it would appoint Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard Griffin to the NLRB.

    The fourth recess appointment was to name Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the controversial new consumer watchdog created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in 2010.

    So its not one, but four appointees…

    from financial times: “the president increasingly relies on executive orders rather than risk his proposals being voted down in Congress.”

    You mean like sovereign decrees?

    Mr Obama signed a new executive order on Monday requiring the Food and Drug Administration to address a shortage in prescription medicine, the fifth such order in a week.

    so this order is way after a lot of others we didn’t pay attention to… or shall i said, i paid attention to, warned were coming, and watched them pass by…

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    with the executive orders, Mr Obama has signalled a new strategy to advance his agenda without Congress. It also marks the beginning of a public campaign, a year out from the presidential election, to show voters that he is taking concrete action to create jobs while Republicans are not.

    “He needs people in Congress who are not going to obstruct job creation,” said Thomas Mann, a Congressional expert at the Brookings Institution think tank, adding that the president had little choice.

    “So he has no alternative but to use executive orders. He should turn it into a virtue,” he said.

    so, true to sociopathic narcissism, its not his fault that he has to do this, all the others are forcing him… right?

    “Let’s re-emphasise what powers we have! What we can do on our own! Push the envelope!” – Bill Daley, Mr Obama’s chief of staff

    Earnest said Obama will come out with at least two or three directives per week, continuing the “We Can’t Wait” campaign the administration began this fall, and try to define Republicans in Congress as gridlocked and dysfunctional.

    this continues the constant line of thought that only one man with enough power like stalin can make the changes needed, and that such bodies or soviets like congress have no power to react fast enough to todays issues.

    but as with feminism, drinking a gallon of water a day has different outcomes depending on whether its consumed in one minute or throughout the day. something benign and good can easily be made toxic that way.

    Obama Announces Public New Measures to Bypass Congress and Use Dictator-like Decrees
    http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41802

    At times like this i wonder what “Huxley the Reasonable” would say?
    [edited for length by n-n]

  12. Obama held rallies in outdoor stadiums to excite and inflame the people’s passions. Frequently women would faint or break into tears.

    [who else did this?]

    Obama wrote a ghost biography before office (Dreams Of My Father).

    [who else did this?]

    Then a second book was written detailing his goals (The Audacity of Hope).

    [who else did this?]

    Obama changed his name and hides much of his early identity and inconvenient relations…

    [who else did this?]

    Obama’s supporters follow him blindly, and without question, even making apologies and convenient explanations to help.

    [who else did this?]

    Obama has games around his credentials and birth certificate…

    [who else did this?]

    Obama created his Youth Brigade and funded it.

    [who else did this?]

    Obama is assumed to have great orator skills and the public was told this, and told what to think about this.

    [who else did this?]

    Obama had messianic comparations, and had songs of adulation and adoration written about him.

    [who else did this?]

    Obama considers himself the will of the people and that any opposition to his will is opposition to the people and has usurped powers and created constitutional exceptions of convenience

    [who else did this?]

    Obama has an obvious dislike for observant jewish people, and the jewish state

    [who else was like this? (so far as it goes)]

    Obama mesmerizes his followers, lies to their faces and is accepted as truthful

    [who else?]

    Obama’s earliest rise was accomplished by the help of domestic terrorists, like ayers, and others…

    [who else?]

    Obama is for eugenics (abortion) and euthanasia as a means of population control

    [who else?]

    Obama is following the ideas of Carl Schmitt, and Heidekker, and others…

    [who else?]

    Obama was man of the year as decided by time

    [who else?]

    Obama Nationalized auto industry

    [who else?]

    Obama nationalizes health, education, etc

    [who else?]

    Obama is keen on green, and other naturalist ideas of living

    [who else?]

    Obama is into the class struggle and deciding winners and losers in society by race, and other convenient measures

    [who else?]

    Obama broke the rule of law with the financial industry, declaring contracts entered into as inconsequential changing their outcomes

    [who else?]

    this list can actually go on and on…
    however not all things match up
    the differences that can be listed match another man of the year…
    so a Hegelian hybrid appears…

    I really do wonder what Huxley would say…

  13. Wow. Didn’t realize that incredible matchup with ole Schnicklegruber!

    I suppose no one needs to hope for a catastrophe (not that anyone is or wants to) but if someone did, doesn’t the current administration qualify?

    At what point do we, so frustrated and fed up with our useless Republican apparatus, break into “catastrophic” mode?

    And we’re told, well, really, were “fear mongered” into relinquishing what is most ours as an American, our vote. It could not be clearer what “the people” want and that it is different than what the Republican establishment wants. And the Republican establishment wants that because it is only about retaining positions and power at any cost.

    And so we have about one-third of those who call themselves Republicans tellling the other two thirds that they will destroy America by “throwing away their vote.”

    And in the ongoing melee between the two groups, all sorts of mischief (fast and furious, interim appointment, and on and on and on) is accomplished.

    Who, then, is the problem. The one-third or the two thirds?

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