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Obama’s Petty Tyranny

By on 1.5.12 @ 4:32PM

Like others too numerous to mention, I am appalled at President Obama’s abuse of his office in making recess appointments when Congress is not in recess.

Thus I am in partial agreement with Quin Hillyer that these are acts of tyranny. At the risk of quibbling with Quin, I am only in partial agreement with him because Obama isn’t a tyrant in the sense that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Bashar Assad of Syria or Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are tyrants. As much as one may dislike the manner in which Obama carries out his duties, he isn’t ordering the murder of his political opponents and otherwise innocent civilians. It is an important distinction to make when critiquing President Obama’s governance. After all, in Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe, there are virtually no means to remedy a President’s capriciousness. This is not the case in the United States.

Indeed, I would argue that Obama is engaging in kind of petty tyranny that befell a number of his predecessors. FDR’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court in 1937 and Truman’s nationalization of the steel industry in 1952 come to mind. The court packing plan was thwarted by Congress while the Supreme Court overruled the nationalization scheme. If FDR and Truman can be successfully challenged then why not Obama? Tyranny doesn’t get any pettier than a President too impatient to wait for Congress to recess to make a recess appointment.

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Willy| 1.5.12 @ 4:53PM

Obama's recess appointments are consistent with the way he, and his handmaidens in the Congress, have governed for the past three years. Any opportunity to shove it down the throats of the "honorable" opposition have been pursued in spades. Exhibit # 1: Obamacare.

Rick V.| 1.5.12 @ 5:28PM

Get used to it, he's a shoe-in for reelection. As long as he caters to those with outstretched hands - the "poor", the illegals, the banks, select (green) manufacturers, and everyone else with a beef - essentially, everyone who is not white and employed - he'll stay in the nice white house and tell everyone else how to live their lives in servitude. Four more years, and beyond!

RJ| 1.5.12 @ 5:35PM

Obama's behavior is a symptom of a disease that has been disabling America over the last several years - our nation is increasingly lawless. The true measure of the problem is not so much Obama's actions, but the reaction of the public. Most people won't care, which is a much bigger problem. I shuttered last spring when Obama committed US forces into battle in Libya without an imminent threat against the US; a treaty obligation to an ally or Congressional consent. Such an act is what dictators do; not the elected executive of a government based on separation of powers.

We can replace a lawless president, but an apathetic population is much harder to deal with.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:20AM

The REAL problem is voter stupidity. It took a decade to work out of the Great Depression, and the American voters BOUGHT the BULLSHIT from the Rovian attack ads. They elected an obstructionist House and strengthened an Obstructionist Senate, then are now blaming him for the mess THEY voted into office.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:22AM

They barely even gave him a full year. And what is this BS about leaving 90 empty judicial appointments by the Senate. I bet he will appoint all 90 of them on the next recess. the summer one for the Conventions. ~S~ CLever half white bastard!!

Dai Alanye | 1.6.12 @ 12:34PM

It took ten years to work our way out of the Great Depression because Roosevelt used tactics similar to those of Obama. He tried to spend his way out of it, while increasing government control over much of private business.

The economy is doing its best to come back, but Obama continues to stymie it, helped by a tax-dodging Treasury Secretary and clueless Federal Reserve. Using Obama's own characterization, he took an economy that was in the ditch, and shoved it deep into the swamp.

I had little doubt in 2008 that Obama would be a bad President, but I had no idea how completely ignorant he would be about practical economics. He'll go down in history as the worst President of modern times, far surpassing Jimmie Carter.

John Garrett| 1.7.12 @ 11:10PM

Looks like Stephen unknowing blundered in to the correct answer. Voter stupidity made the depression GREAT by electing FDR and voter stupidity created a MUCH GREATER economic crisis by continuing to elect progressives like FDR. American voters granted the democrats and Obama a full year of free reign to fix our economy but they squandered this opportunity to enrich their cronies at the expense of American tax payers. The slumbering majority woke up long enough to elect a few people to stop to the Democrats criminal activity, albeit too late.

DRed| 1.5.12 @ 5:41PM

If Congress isn't in recess, can somebody tell me what they're working on?

The Bruce| 1.5.12 @ 9:47PM

In my perfect word, Impeachment Proceedings. But not this Congress-- no siree. They've got their collective gonads in their wives' purses right now.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:17AM

tapping a gavel, asking for a motion to close and TAP! going home. It is a ploy to handcuff obama. THAT is the real TYRANNY.

Tim the Enchanter| 1.6.12 @ 10:37AM

You sure your name isn't Alan Brooks?

John Garrett| 1.7.12 @ 11:21PM

I don't care if Congress was playing Bing Go because Obama broke his oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

Oldefarte| 1.5.12 @ 5:46PM

I don't consider anything that this tyrant has done 'petty', and his policies/dictates will destroy this country if allowed another four years!!!!

beebop2| 1.5.12 @ 6:30PM

I think he is losing it and there is no one in the inner circle to tell him no. He is not well either physically based on the picture from his night in Iowa or emotionally based upon this behavior. We should demand that he see a physician immediately.

Margie| 1.5.12 @ 7:02PM

"We should demand that he see a physician immediately."

He IS after all, a danger to himself and to others.

Maybe we can do an "intervention".

Where's Occam?

louisc| 1.5.12 @ 10:39PM

I don't think he's losing it. He knows exactly what he's doing. The only political way to retaliate is for Repub senator's to put holds on and to deny unanimous consent. Guess what happens then? It only escalates. Since the Repubs will be thwarting him, he must take further acts "on his own to protect the people." Bringing more retaliation and so on, and so on.

His inner circle is not not telling him, they're telling him how to execute this plan.

He's Caligula making fools out of Senators, including those of his own party.

albert constantine jr.| 1.5.12 @ 10:50PM

I don't think the two are necessarily exclusive, i.e. he knows what he's doing and he is losing it. This works particularly if by "it" you mean whatever inhibitions he might have against completely ignoring the constitutional limits on his power.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:09AM

NO ma'am. he isan incredibly clever fellow. From now on, he will do EVERYTHING he can to showcase RED party obstructionism. The more the GOP candidates applaude it, the louder he laughs. he will just pull back the curtain on all the little roadblocks to recovery McConnell and Boehner have landmined the voters with and like the Wizard of OZ... only completely bambozzled and embarrassed Republicans will even bother showing up at the poles on November 6.

He's is Pied Pippering all the little GOP puppets, right into the limelight for the slaughter. You do realize that all he has to do to be a 60% popular President is STOP Iran and get Israel to back down for 6 months from Easter to Veterans Day.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:15AM

The stock market will take care of itself. Corporate America can't be caught taping cash reserves to pay for increases in production BEFORE the election, or Obama will be seen as making the recovery happen. But they can't cut any more corners and they can't lay of any more people. They are tapped out (except for the cash reserves just waiting for a RED President.

BUT, here's the rub, they NEED to make profits for the stockholders to justify their bonuses and without increasing sales and production (which they need to hire NEW workers for) they have fucked themselves. They are into a corner for the 4th year and on the ropes.

So Obama really only has to wait, and if he pisses in the RED party Cherrios for a lark and a laugh, well just too damn bad for YOU.

Deborah Young| 1.5.12 @ 7:55PM

The bottom line is that he is not eligible to be president. The Supreme Court has handed down their definition of a "natural born citizen", and they have stated that the candidate has to be a U.S. citizen born to parents who both are also U.S. citizens. This disqualifies Obama because his father was not a U.S. citizen. Why has this been allowed to happen? We, the people, have been lied to in a disgusting way. Now we know why Obama has fought so hard to keep his records sealed. I am very angry. Where were the watchdogs? Why didn't someone in the Republican Party speak out? Why didn't John McCain? I hold all who kept their silence responsible!!! We do not have to suffer even one more day. We need to hold Congress and Obama accountable!

The Bruce| 1.5.12 @ 9:45PM

Um, Deborah, when exactly did this happen? I believe, as you do, that natural-born means of two citizen parents as well, but I haven't found a single Supreme Court case that defines it as such. To my knowledge, the question of natural-born hasn't been brought up to the Supreme Court yet.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:04AM

Does 'natural born' mean only those who were not concieved through intercourse? Those who are birthed by surrogate mothers from invitro impregnations? Or perhaps we should amend the Constitution so you wound too tight wing nuts can justify your excuses for racism.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 5:02AM

Miss Young, learn to Google before you speak. "The Constitution does not define the phrase natural-born citizen, and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. The Congressional Research Service has stated that the weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion indicates that the term means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship "at birth" or "by birth," including any child born "in" the United States (other than to foreign diplomats serving their country), the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parent who has met U.S. residency requirements.[1]" From Wikipedia hon.

GOD help us! WHY are these morons allowed to VOTE!

Tim| 1.6.12 @ 10:34AM

Libtards believe in God? Jeeeeezus, hon.

Dai Alanye | 1.6.12 @ 12:43PM

It is fools like this Stephen who enabled Chavez to take over in Venezuela, and are doing their best to encourage Obama to follow in Chavez' footsteps.

Obama is the American version of a Latin American tyrant, gradually increasing his control over the nation's political institutions.

John Garrett| 1.7.12 @ 11:22PM

Amen!

Quartermaster| 1.5.12 @ 7:57PM

To your second paragraph I would append the word "yet." And then, you would have to qualify that as it hasn't happened openly. There have been enough strange deaths among politicians to make one wonder.

The Bruce| 1.5.12 @ 9:41PM

"I am only in partial agreement with him because Obama isn't a tyrant in the sense that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran..."

Give him another term and just watch. Wow.

George S| 1.5.12 @ 9:50PM

Not in tyranny? Two quotes:

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison. We now have the President being able to detain US citizens at his pleasure. No lawyer, no habeus, no recourse. We also have the TSA breaking out of airports and posting agents with automatic weapons at... social security offices. In addition, they are now on highways, in bus terminals and train stations. All this since the 2010 elections.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - C.S. Lewis. This one is self-explanatory and describes Obama perfectly. No detentions, no murders -- just doin' things for the people.

Quibbling?

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 4:58AM

Very simply put, the Patriot ACT is the REAL criminal act of the last decade. The establishment of private armies (mercenary contractors doing the DOD's job, trained at taxpayer's expense and controlled by private despots like DICK the prick Cheney) the useless insistance on bankruptingly complex weapons systems when the war ofthe future will be done with a Ipad from a hotel room with WIFI controlling drones anywhere in the world is absolute foolishness.

The WAR madison was refering to is the one BUSH created and Obama is ending. Had NOT the RED party enmeshed us in the 2nd Viet Nam, and redistributed wealth from the poor to the rich, the deficit would not be halfof what it is because the economy would not have failed from the strain of negative revenue and ballooning expenses.

George, to quote you "All this since the 2010 elections," is absolute CRAP! The tyranny began as a RED party corruption of intelligence for the express purpose of putting Iraq back on the dollar and off the euro.

Resist We Much! | 1.6.12 @ 12:06PM

"Very simply put, the Patriot ACT is the REAL criminal act of the last decade. "

And, yet, Bush did not demand the right to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial. Bush did not assassinate American citizens without trial. Bush did, whether you like it or not, get authorisation from Congress for Afghanistan and Iraq, unlike Truman (Korea), Clinton (Bosnia), and Obama (Libya).

A Grin without a Cat| 1.5.12 @ 11:58PM

Tyranny is usually established gradually. A leader who gets away with enough petty violations of the law will move on to increasingly serious ones, including the detention and murder of his critics. It's not happening now. This doesn't mean it won't.

Stephen| 1.6.12 @ 4:50AM

I think a whole lot more would get done in Congress if obama WAS assasinating the footdragging, sandbagging, lobby oriented, slackers known as the RED party leaders. Drop Bonehead, McAsshole, Cantor, Paul the young and Toilet Cronyn dead in their tracks, all on the same morning with RPG's captured in Afghanistan.

Demented and the three most teabag among the House first termers ... should just get winged. THAT would shut them up and get them about doing the Nation's business. Seriously, it would be a cost saving measure.

The failure of the Republicans to keep their end of a deal that CREATED this Agency only shows the citizens NEED for a little Executive pressure. The TRUE TYRANNY in all this minor issue blather and twaddle is that if the RED Senate and the BLOODY RED house were actually DOING their jobs for the voters, then Obama wouldn't HAVE to do it for them.

Pecos Pete| 1.6.12 @ 9:06AM

Typical left-wing creep. Stephen will assassinate those that disagree with him. Yet, Stephen will try to sound so fair minded otherwise, and it's all for the poor and downtrodden.

Yeah, I know not to feed the trolls. Couldn't help myself in this case.

Tim| 1.6.12 @ 10:40AM

Pecos, it's amusing to picture him sitting in his mother's basement, spewing spittle at the monitor while he thinks up 4th grader playground names for Republican leaders.

martin j smith| 1.6.12 @ 8:00AM

Aaron you better understand that Obama's tyrranic rule is not finished--if he wins this country will be one big Cuba. And maybe worse still. I strongly urge YOU Aaron to take the behavior of our Dear Leader more seriously than you do. And most importatly one must ask this question: Where is the Republican Leadershit--YES I DO G-D DAMN WELL MEAN SHIT ! WHY IS THERE NO STRONG VOCAL AND LEGAL OPPOSITION TO THIS GUY from the Republican Party ? Huh ? I am really even more angry today than yesterday and getting more pissed at the Republican Establishment Every Day--They are worse than useless.

Jeff Perren| 1.6.12 @ 11:19AM

"As much as one may dislike the manner in which Obama carries out his duties, he isn't ordering the murder of his political opponents and otherwise innocent civilians."

Only because he knows he couldn't get away with it. He'd be quite happy if the U.S. were more like Venezuela or Cuba where such things do occur. (See his longing sighs over China, for example.)

Resist We Much! | 1.6.12 @ 12:10PM

Article One, section Five of the Constitution -- the Adjournments Clause -- states:

"Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."


Yesterday, Obama installed Richard Cordray as the head of the vast new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and 3 new members to the National Labour Relations Board. He claimed that he had the power to do this via "recess" appointments. This presents a problem for Obama. The Senate is NOT actually in recess. The Constitution says the Senate cannot recess for more than 3 days without the House's permission. The House has not granted permission. As a result, both houses have been holding pro forma sessions out of constitutional necessity.

The House did NOT pass a Concurrent Resolution with the Senate to recess Congress precisely to block the president from making recess appointments, just as the Democratic Congress did in November 2007 and for the rest of George W Bush’s presidency. In both cases, members of the Senate appeared every three days to gavel the Senate into “pro forma” session. In fact, only the day before Obama acted, the Senate conducted a pro forma session, convening the second session of the 112th Congress. Moreover, no less than Obama’s most recent appointee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, writing as his solicitor general on 23 March 2010 to the clerk of the Supreme Court, averred that “the Senate may act to foreclose [recess appointments] by declining to recess for more than two or three days at a time over a lengthy period.” You might think that it isn't "fair" that a minority in Congress or a Congress in the hands of a party opposite that of the President of the United States should be able to stymy the "efforts of the benevolent leader to save the middle class," but that's exactly what the Constitution was written with in mind.

-snip-

As a result, the Cordray and NLRB recess appointments are clearly unconstitutional.

Furthermore, Dodd-Frank, hereinafter referred to as Frankendudd, SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES that the Director of the CFPB be CONFIRMED by the Senate.

Section 1066 provides that the Secretary of the Treasury is authorised to perform the functions of the CFPB under the subtitle transferring authority to the CFPB from the other agencies “until the Director of the Bureau is CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE in accordance with Section 1011.”

Section 1011 provides: “The Director shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.”

Obamabots -- yeah, Stephen, I am looking at you -- I hope that you like the precedent. Imagine a future Mr President Generic Republican nominating Mark Levin for the Supreme Court and, two weeks later while Congress is off for the weekend, appointing him to the Court using the recess appointment clause in the Constitution, which would be completely unconstitutional.

I don't want to hear any whining from you assholes then. You have no regard for the Constitution. "The ends justify the means" is your entire life.

Careful Barack, That Tree Might Start Getting Thirsty.

http://predicthistunpredictpas.....start.html

RJ| 1.7.12 @ 2:04AM

You have spoken a truth which we must remind ourselves on a daily basis and act accordingly - for many big government liberals, the prime directive is the ends justifies the means.

Cuffs| 1.6.12 @ 12:49PM

Where the hell are the Republicans?????????
Boehner is a huge disappointment--no spine!
If this keeps up, Barry the Tick, will be re-elected
and then we won't need to worry about a two
party system in this country because there will
be no country.

Ivan| 1.6.12 @ 1:31PM

"The court packing plan was thwarted by Congress"

Was it? Or maybe the Supreme Court Justices capitulated and rubber-stumped the New Deal?

Larry in WI| 1.6.12 @ 5:01PM

It was and wasn't. Historically, the reference to "court packing" was FDR's attempt in 1937 to add associate justices to the Supreme Court, which he could then appoint, and swing the balance in his favor. The bill was soundly defeated in Congress.

However, between 1937 and 1943, FDR appointed a total of 9 justices to the Supreme Court, so the balance was shifted simply by his longevity in office and ability to fill multiple vacancies - in essence, he packed the court by staying in office.

RJ| 1.7.12 @ 2:08AM

You have it right. As I recall, Ivan, the court packing scheme was successful not because it was implemented, but because the court did react to it. That was where the phrase "A stitch in time saved nine," the nine being the members of the Supreme Court.

David T| 1.6.12 @ 2:25PM

Mr. Goldstein--I would submit that neither was George III a tyrant in the sense of a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Bashar Assad, or a Robert Mugabe, but our founders threw off his shackles nonetheless.

Oldefarte| 1.6.12 @ 4:51PM

Read the following and remember......IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS:

'....NewsmaxObama Teams Dwarf Republican Campaigns Friday, January 6, 2012 03:19 PM...The biggest presidential primary campaign team in New Hampshire is tucked on a Manchester side street inside a four-story brick building and it belongs to the best-financed candidate seeking nomination: President Barack Obama.The office is one of seven in the state and his re-election campaign has about 20 paid employees. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, the two front-runners in the Republican presidential primary after they emerged first and second in the Iowa caucuses, each have one office. Romney has nine paid staffers in the state and Santorum has eight.Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who skipped Iowa to campaign full time in New Hampshire, showed up at more than 150 public events and recruited almost 1,000 volunteers, said Michael Levoff, a Huntsman spokesman. Since Obama announced his candidacy, his Granite State volunteers have held 500 events, including house parties, phone banks and training sessions.The Obama camp’s short-term goal is the same as the Republican primary rivals, to turn out the vote on Jan. 10, primary night. While his nomination isn’t on the line, his support in the state has plunged. His team can use the event to test its operations and score bragging rights if the party’s turnout measures competitively with that in the contested Republican primary.‘Important Test’“The word is out that they want Democrats to show up and vote in the primary and that they see this is an important test run, they’re going to be identifying their voters,” said Linda Fowler, a political scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover. “And that’s what it’s all about it in a tight state.”Although the state controls just four Electoral College votes, David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political adviser, and Jim Messina, his campaign manager, told reporters at a Dec. 13 briefing that New Hampshire is one of the eight states where the general election will be fought and won.The Granite State has shown a fickle nature in recent elections.Obama took the state by 9 percentage points against John McCain in 2008, though he lost the primary to Hillary Clinton 39 percent to 37 percent. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a Democrat, carried the state in 2004 and then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, a Republican, won New Hampshire in 2000.‘Very Tight Race’In 2010, two years after Obama’s victory, Republicans swept the House and Senate races in the state. In a Nov. 10 Bloomberg poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters, Romney was ahead of Obama by 10 points, 50 percent to 40 percent.“This is going to be a very tight race and therefore you need to pay careful attention to all of the states that are in play, even a small one like New Hampshire,” said Fowler, noting that if Democrat Al Gore had won New Hampshire in 2000 the outcome in Florida, determined after a recount fight went to the U.S. Supreme Court, wouldn’t have mattered.Evidence of the Obama re-election campaign’s extensive ramp-up program lies beyond New Hampshire. There are 62 “tested, trained and mobilized neighborhood teams” in Michigan and 71 in Colorado, Messina said in a Jan. 4 conference call with reporters. The re-election operation has contacted more than 511,000 voters in Nevada and the Florida branch has organized 2,633 events such as door-to-door canvasses and phone banks.“One of the most important things to remember about New Hampshire is that we never left,” said Frank Benenati, an Obama campaign spokesman, referring to “networks and relationships” built over two and a half years by Organizing for America, the president’s political arm outside the White House. Benenati said the primary is a way to “further expand our organization.”Old BreweryOn Dec. 27, a half-dozen Obama volunteers huddled on a rainy, 30-degree night at an old beer brewery that is now home to the campaign’s Portsmouth office. A Christmas tree strung with multi-colored lights stood in the back of the room.Mary McCarthy, a stay-at-home mother, spends four hours a week at the Portsmouth office calling registered Democrats and independents reminding them to vote in the primary. Most people she calls say they will support the president though many of them don’t know the primary date.“Everyone in New Hampshire knows there’s a primary coming, unless you live in your closet, but some need to be told the date,” said McCarthy, 54. “Some think it’s just a Republican primary and we remind them that no, it’s not a Republican primary, it’s a primary for everybody.”Nightly CallsOver in Concord, the location of the campaign’s headquarters is behind a small “2012” sign on a side door of a three-story Victorian-style house that sits along a two-lane street and is also home to the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s headquarters.In an empty room where volunteers make nightly calls, a dry erase board is filled with persuasive messages: “8,300: # of New Hampshire young people who have health coverage because of the Affordable Care Act” and “$1,980 Obama’s payroll tax cut for typical Granite State family.” A calendar lists daily phone banks from 5 to 8 p.m. during the week of Jan. 2.Obama, 50, has more money to build his organization in the states. His campaign reported raising $88 million through Sept. 30, up from $80 million in 2007. That is more than twice the amount of money raised by Romney, the leading Republican presidential fundraiser.Drawing CrowdsThe president, whose name is one of 14 on the Democratic ballot, also has another advantage of a sitting president: when he visits, people show up.Romney and Huntsman, the only candidates to visit the state in the last week of December, were drawing 100 to 200 voters. Romney leads his Republican rivals with 40 percent of likely voters in their party’s New Hampshire primary, according to a Suffolk University/7 News tracking poll taken Jan. 4-5.On Dec. 27, about 200 people showed up at Geno’s Chowder and Sandwich Shop, a gray clapboard restaurant on the banks of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, to listen to Romney.Since Obama took office, the president has made three trips to New Hampshire, filling a Manchester high school auditorium to capacity with 1,300 people on Nov. 22.....'

Resist We Much! | 1.7.12 @ 10:37AM

Only one Senate Democrat, out of 51 asked, told The Daily Caller that President Barack Obama was correct when he claimed the Senate was in recess Jan. 3. That’s the day Obama announced that he had exercised his executive authority to fill four top posts during a Senate recess.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01.....z1ijzAqoJL

Resist We Much! | 1.7.12 @ 10:39AM

As for Attorney General Ed Meese and a former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer, Todd Gaziano, point out in their editorial in the Washington Post, "if Congress does not resist, the injury is not just to its branch but ultimately to the people.” Separation of powers exists to protect liberty and to protect the rights of democratically elected senators to participate in the nominations process. This is a “tyrannical usurpation of power” by President Obama, and Congress must act quickly to restore an appropriate balance between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government.

"The president and anyone else may object that the Senate is conducting “pro forma” sessions, but that does not render them constitutionally meaningless, as some have argued. In fact, the Senate did pass a bill during a supposedly “pro forma” session on Dec. 23, a matter the White House took notice of since the president signed the bill into law. The president cannot pick and choose when he deems a Senate session to be “real.”

It does not matter one whit that most members of Congress are out of town and allow business to be conducted by their agents under unanimous consent procedures, because ending a session of Congress requires the passage of a formal resolution, which never occurred and could not have occurred without the consent of the House."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

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