Junior made 171 recess appointments.

Actually the likely VP candidate will be Chris Christie and one of the reasons he is campaigning for Romney....much to my chagrin

coralway: It is not the process of said recess appoitnments. apparently many presidents have done so. It is these two particular appointsment s because of their potential dangerous and devasting effect on our economy.

Sarbane Oxly has literally driven many Us business out of the country or closed them down. this new consumer Agency is Sarbanes on steroids.

Secondly the NLRB appointments were primarily union bias appointments. Get ready for the fall out. Finally the house claims they were not out owing to a technical ploy. It will be left or the courts to decide but by then this will all be old news. Obama's motives were a big push for his campaign and neither of the issues will help our economy.

The difference here is that Obama made these recess appointments while Congress was still "in session".

In 2007 after Pres. Bush made recess appointments that the Liberals hated they began to reconvene, if even for only 30 seconds, every 3 days to stop any further recess appointments as 3 days was the rule in place.

Now Obama has instituted unilaterally a new "nuclear option", if you will, and made recess appointments without adhering to the rules of Congress. I guess Congress can never stop running now for even a second. The Liberals won't like this when the President is no longer a Democrat. Will they like what they've sown?

This is the same thing that is happening with judges now. The Democrats pulled the "nuclear option" of filibustering judges so than G.W. Bush couldn't name any and now the Republicans are doing the same thing to them. Reaping what you sow. Is this any way to run a country?

We now have a President who is acting as a despot. Just beautiful, isn't it?

It will never happen. He has too much personality easily outshining Mitt. No way are two northern governors going to be on the ticket. And he needs to lose 200 lbs imho.

Now that President Obama has produced his long form birth certificate, when is Mitt Romney going to produce his tax returns?

Isn't it interesting that The Boston Globe and the NH Times Leader would not endorse Romney, the people that know him best? If he's the nominee, he won't even carry MA, his home state.

LOL - "in session"? LOL - Perhaps, but only if you consider all of them back home in their districts on vacation - as being in session.

LOL.... good one......

You have no idea what you're talking about. Please research before you opine.

The intent of recess appointments by our Founding Fathers was based on their anticipating that Congress was not in session year round and so as not to impair advice and consent role in federal appointments allowed for temporary appointments.

However presidents and especially in recent times have abused this priviledge to advance their political agendas vis a vis serve the people.

Obama's recent recess appointments were done while congress was still in session and will be challenged in court. The intent of these appointments is believed to trample the US Constitution....why am I not surprised

"The two Democrats that President Barack Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board during what he considered a congressional “recess” are not on the White House’s official list of Obama’s appointments and nominations for various positions.

Obama referred his two Democratic nominees, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, to the Senate on Dec. 15. The Senate adjourned for the year – but did not go into an official recess — on the following day.

WhiteHouse.gov tracks the status of all of Obama’s appointments and nominations. Block and Griffin do not appear on that list — a sign that the administration rushed the recess appointments through too quickly for the Senate to even consider them.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/06/de...-nominee-list/

Those of you who fancy President Obama as a poor schmuck being abused by those dirty rotten Republicans should do some reading before you listen to the media who, as they did loudly in 2008, are twisting the news just a bit to deliver a very distorted picture.

President Obama is a politician, TOTALLY....that is all he has ever done and he is good at it. He is not the man with the message, the good guy, the Messiah or any of that. If you think his recent actions are not cold and calculated for his own personal gain, AND NOT THE COUNTRY..think again.

Does this mean that those on the other side dont play silly games...sure they do, but this is just about the most arrogant and political man ever in the White House and those of you who believe all the tripe you hear should just take a minute and read BOTH sides...other viewpoints other than those who make you feel good. You may learn more about our President than you ever expected and I encourage, as I did in 2008, you to read the archives of the Chicago newspapers and learn more about him.

I havent been on this soap box for quite some time as he is our President, but the stuff that folks are believing about him is just scary. Please get to know him and his background....review all that he promised and just ignored......I am not speaking of those things that he needs to get through legislation because all Presidents promise stuff they cannot deliver, but for example...taking the health care bill behind closed doors and paying bribery to get it passed with nobody knowing it AFTER VERY clearly stating how the public would see the debate and have time to read the bill....all things that were of no problem for him to deliver and just ignoring that promise....THAT should let you know the character of the man and how the press will NOT call him on it, thus not allowing you the truth.