about time...

Reconcilliation isn't too far off. ;)

The Gop should hold double top secret meetings behind closed doors and trade votes for favors, uhhhh no wait that's what the Democrats have been doing with health care sorry wrong party...

Reconcilliation isn't too far off. ;)

Posted by NoGov4Me at 2010-02-09 02:59 PM | Reply

Good. The 20% solution can roll the 26% solution and the other 54% of America will call in to vote on American Idol.

Will the 54%'ers wake up 2010, 2012, never?

Same shit, different Congress and President. What happened to hope and change? All we're getting is the same old crap, just different parties.

Hell, Little O, they reappointed Bernanke! They didn't set the bar very high - must be some pretty shitty candidates!

""In our meeting I asked the congressional leadership to put a stop to these holds in which nominees for a critical job are denied a vote for months," he said."

As it turns out, all he did was play the endless hours of the GOP screaming for an up-or-down vote until they relented.

All we're getting is the same old crap, just different parties.
#5 | Posted by SpokaneJim at

Translation: That BOY should know his role and do what he's told.

What took him so long?

Wait, recess appt's are bad, right? Let me go check the thread from a few years back when Bush did it and I'll report my findings...

I love it. In a surprise appearence....warns...he would consider. What a fucking wet noodle.

Yeah, Repubes prefer strong leadership...

#13 | Posted by SpokaneJim at

Oh noes, he's going to emberass me by talking about my mom in the internet. If I'm not careful he may start talking about my wife too, that what will I do???

LOL

Oh Nogov, you're almost too cute for words. Impressive, though, that you can find a shit-wiping monkey to type your sentences for you. Surprised to hear you have a wife, though. Sister or cousin? Anyway, poor sop that you are, I guess you can be forgiven for thinking that you have something to contribute. If you're really needing someone's ass to sniff, mine's free at the moment, though you'd have to pull your head out of Obama's ass first. Before you do, though, say hello to Corky.

Before you do, though, say hello to Corky.

FF

#15 | Posted by SpokaneJim at

Oh man, I am ssssoooo emberassed now. You can type cuss words and bring other people who post here AND the president into it and you even incorporated monkeys in there somehow. I will continue to post here, I'll do it with a bag over my head to hide my identity though. Oh, woe is me....

LOL

your comment is merely an attempt to drive in a political wedge.

Holy shit! A political comment on this blog! The fucking world is coming to an end.

#19 | Posted by 726 at

Watch out man, he will type cuss words at you next, you WILL be emberasssed too!

I'm tellingyouman, you may think it's a joke buy you WILL NOT lol anymore when he brings up monkeys, or even worse wasps!

Sniff, sniff, I best not back up too quickly. Did you say hello to Corky before you left Obama's ass?

#22 | Posted by SpokaneJim at

See, now I'm even more emberassed than I was before.

Let me see if I have this right. I am supposed to come to parts unknown, Spokane, Wash. I assume and sniff your ass. On my way to sniff your ass I am supposed to say hello to "Corky" as I exit the president's ass. Is that correct?

Anyone wanna bet that this guy has described himself as "mature" on e-harmony or a similar site?

I'm ssssoooo emberassed!

LOL

Ahh, alas even NoGov can understand simple English. It took him a few posts, but he managed to find someone to explain the nuances of satire. With any luck he'll grow up to be a fine specimen of a man, albeit a liberal one. Until then I'll remember to type slow so he can read more easily. Or perhaps he can just ask his wife/sister to slowly sound out the words for him. After all, an Obama devotee such as this needs all the help he can get. Sooner or later he may even be able to articulate a thought of his own, perhaps even write it out in whole sentences. But let's not push the envelope any, maybe just start with responding to other people's thoughts.

Glenn Beck can get rid of them.

FYI...
Ronald Reagan 243
George H.W. Bush 77
Bill Clinton 140
George W. Bush 177 as of 10/01/08

Is it possible that the appointees are worse than the tax cheats, party hacks, lobbyists, and idiots that Obama has brought into his cabinet?

Wait, recess appt's are bad, right? Let me go check the thread from a few years back when Bush did it and I'll report my findings...

#10 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2010-02-09 04:00 PM

Just like the 60's. Alabama white man trying to keep a brother down.

"Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April.

The GOP went to great intellectual lengths to find a reason to oppose Becker, a labor lawyer. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the highest-ranking Republican on the committee that approved Becker, presented a novel argument. He noted that Becker had answered hundreds of questions that Republicans had submitted to him, and then used that fact to make the logical leap that he was a questionable nominee>/b>.

"If a nominee garners a greater level of public scrutiny and larger than usual volumes of questions, we should ask why. This unique scrutiny should be a signal that the individual has raised a great level of concern and controversy," Enzi argued from the Senate floor."
This is 'logical' governance? :

- After answering hundreds of questions submitted by Republicans, Becker's 'questionable' because he answered them?

- Shelby's holding up 80 nominations - including the Undersecretary of Defense for Military Readiness - throwing a pork tantrum over (what?) a program to aid military readiness.

The only one he surprised was his telepromter, it kept giving the same page " what the fuck are you doing out here? ", " you know you can't put 2 words together without me ".

I keep forgeting to thank the smart voters of Massachusettes for voting for Scott Browne.

Thank you Massachusettes for the Scott heard around the world. And, yes world, we have had enough of the incompetent clown that you fools all seem to think is a messiuuuuhhh. They say the anti-Christ will rise out of the E.U., now we can see how it could happen, any assclown can impress them.

Thanks again Massachusettes

"GOP obstructionism"? I would say it is the GOP protecting the country from Obama's thugs and goons.

"At least have an up or down vote"
--- President __________ ---

The dunce has been on recess since he mumbled the oath.
I guess he figured he was'nt going to make it possible for private business to get back to work, too much uncertainty with this clown. So, he did what he or any worthless marxist does best, he went back to the obamacare, knowing he can strike a very clear blow to America with that cluster fuck.

Hou dat HOPEY CHANGING horseshit workin fo y'all?

Tutamen Deus

Why not? Czars are already the norm. It's even better this way, because they are not accountable to Congress. How powerful are they? Take 'Intelligence Czar' Blair:

In no previous death of a U.S. citizen by the hands of the U.S. government[outside of Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Black Panthers,etc], has the government claimed the right to kill Americans without arrest, trial, and conviction of a capital crime.

In contrast, Dennis Blair has told the House Intelligence Committee that it was now "defined policy" that the executive branch may murder Americans who it deems a "threat."

What defines "threat"? Who will make the decision? What it means is that the government will murder whomever it chooses.

There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as a "threat."

Ironic, isn't it, that "the war on terror" to make us safe ends in a police state with the government declaring the right to murder American citizens who it regards as a threat.

L Contrarian-
Blair was confirmed by the senate and has an actual title, you teabagging moron.

Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947), is the third and current Director of National Intelligence and a retired United States Navy four-star admiral. He was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve in the Obama administration as DNI on January 28, 2009 and took office the next day.[1][2][3]

(correction: "teabagging moron" should read "fucking retard". My bad)

Sucks that there are rules, and what goes around comes around. So go ahead with your backdoor appointments, O. Let's go for a real record-breaker on that job approval rating. You had a supermajority for over a year, so you have nobody to blame but your own fucking retarded party.

First, they hold up Becker's nomination. Reason given by the ranking Republican who gave him a mountain of hundreds of questions (laughable): Becker had so many questions to answer there must be a problem with him. Idiot

Then there's Shelby, who's holding up 80 nominations, including the post of Undersecretary of Defense for Military Readiness. Why? Shelby's throwing a tantrum over a refueling tanker contract for our 'military readiness'. Idiot

Dinsey-
re: Sucks that there are rules, and what goes around comes around. So go ahead with your backdoor appointments, O.

Seems the "rules" allow for recess appointments, dude.

"Let's go for a real record-breaker on that job approval rating."

Yeah...another 20 points and he'll be in Dubya territory!

L Contrarian-
re: Ironic, isn't it, that "the war on terror" to make us safe ends in a police state with the government declaring the right to murder American citizens who it regards as a threat.

You are right about this. My problem is that the opposition party is/was, and would be, much worse. Things don't change in a day, and it is foolish to expect that they will in a climate where the current administration is seen as weak in some significant psychopathic circles (much of the media and most of the Republican Party) for not bombing Iran and torturing everyone suspected of terrorism, etc.

I apologize if my initial response seemed overly harsh.

Danforth-
re: "Let's go for a real record-breaker on that job approval rating."

As of now, Obama's poll numbers with the background of the recession seem to be tracking with Reagan's at a similar point.

Recess appointments are legal... and a way of the POTUS dealing with opposition from the minority party. While such appointments ARE legal, they don't come without cost.

Cost in terms of being seen as a political bully... cost in terms of the appointee being the political equivalent of a union scab.

The minority party has a much "right" to do what it's doing as BHO does to push the recess appointment button. Again, such blocking has political ramifications... being labeled as crybaby obstructionists, etc.

Fuck the obstructionist right.

Recess appointments are perfectly legitimate and in light of the current pig headedness of the GOP in DC they appear to be the only way to prevent federal positions from going unfilled fer ridiculous amounts of time.

Cost in terms of being seen as a political bully... cost in terms of the appointee being the political equivalent of a union scab.

The minority party has a much "right" to do what it's doing as BHO does to push the recess appointment button. Again, such blocking has political ramifications... being labeled as crybaby obstructionists, etc.

Ronald Reagan made 243 recess appointments during his two terms in office; George H. W. Bush made 77 during his single term, Clinton made 140 over two terms and Dumbya made 167 in his first 6 years.

Obama would be a fool not to consider this option strongly.

Be Well.

OOHRAH

There wouldn't be talk of recess appointments if the GOP (specifically Shelby) weren't blocking necessary routine appointments. Controversial characters Bush appointed during recess - like John Bolton, a UN critic and hardly the best man to represent the U.S. at the UN - were one thing, but this is just political gamesmanship on the part of the GOP, and detrimental to a functional government when we need it the most.

For examples you cite (Bolton) I'm sure there are two sides to each of them. Shelby and others likely have their beef with multiple nominees, though I have to confess I haven't followed this particular story very closely.

If BHO feels strongly enough, then make it happen. Like I said, this game of political chicken had its perils for both sides. Perhaps a deal can be struck, like when Dems held up a good number of judge appointments.

#24 | Posted by SpokaneJim at

Let's see:
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And that's just 1 day, but I'm the one who might grow up someday? LOL

I'll bet a dollar the words "Motivated self starter" are on this guy's resume'.

Oh man, am I ever emberassed. I've been pwnt! LOL

The funny things is most of the people on here think it sucked when the other side did it to them (appoint or block). But that it is ok when there side did it. #44 | Posted by OohRah said it best, but left out the DAs that just want to blame the other side.

He will be a ONE TERM president!!!

The thing about the "Change" people "Hoped" for is that the "Change" wasn't specified.

Oh wait..."transparency", "ethical" ....

Still, the "Change" goal wasn't really specified.
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#48 | Posted by NoGov4Me

Is this like a man crush you have on me? Try ManCrunch.com, you'll get a better response.

yes bush did it...and if obama really wanted more done in the un,..he would have kept bolton there..
is that his name?

but remember....THAT was an appointment to tell the UN that they werent running the US..
the appointment of craig berkner is for one reason only..
to pay back union bosses and crooks with a SEIU chief lawyer on the board that regulates...UNIONS and labor...

bug of course the left sees NOTHING AT ALL WRONG about that....

#36 belchteg
you teabagging moron

How's your clueless attacking the messenger working for you? Even though I was mistaken about Blair, it would be a cinch to quote dozens of other anecdotes to prove the point [does sunstein ring a bell?]

This has been policy for some time

Whether it was secret policy for "some time" is irrelevant. It is now "stated policy" and must be stopped immediately.

Cast the obstructionist party aside and get the appointments made.

Republicans are holding up important positions in departments directly responsible for our National Security all in the name of pork.

'Either I get an FBI building built in "Al Abama" (even though the FBI doesn't want it) and I get BOEING aircraft made in 'Al Abama' (even though the Air Force doesn't want it) or I'll jeopardize EVERY AMERICAN'S LIFE.

Sen Shelby - R 'Al Abama'

Obama needs to grow a set if only for the sake of 300 million Americans. As long as he zigs and zags and waffles instead of going for the juggler he'll not be successful.

Obama considers...but will not make a decision....

Empty Suit alert!!!

yesterday I had to just laugh at all of them

the gop was giving the SAME whoop di do about this that the goddamn dems did throughout when bush did it...
maybe this could be one of those REAL bipartisan issues that comes along around here every now and then...

here is my suggeston to them

STOP IT....ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

who gives a shit? if his appointments are being blocked, of course he should do it.

why are people so afraid to do things that they are entitled to do?

If he does that for the NLRB, there will be a heap of trouble for all of us.