Obama announces recess appts NRLB nominee Craig Becker

[rhombus]

BULLETIN: Obama announces more than a dozen recess appointments, including NRLB nominee Craig Becker.

:bounce: :patriot:

Link: http://twitter.com/marcambinder
Confirmed: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-positions

[babylonsister]

1. YAY! Waiting for link, but this is potentially GREAT news! nt

[BlooInBloo]

2. Link?

[msongs]

3. that would be a refreshing change for him nt

[CBR]

4. Marc Ambinder is reporting this on Twitter. nt

[BlooInBloo]

6. Greenwald retweeted...

http://twitter.com/ggreenwald

[ProSense]

5. Recess Appointment For Craig Becker to NLRB

Recess Appointment For Craig Becker to NLRB

[CBR]

7. White House Press Release!!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-positions

[Nancy Waterman]

8. In your face to the bully boys of the GOP

Ha!!

[quiet.american]

12. Thanks for that -- Obama minces no words about this - excellent --

WASHINGTON –After facing months of Republican obstruction to administration nominees, President Obama announced his intent to recess appoint fifteen nominees to fill critical administration posts that have been left vacant, including key positions on the economic team and on boards that have been left with vacancies for months.

“The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees. But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis,” said President Barack Obama. “Most of the men and women whose appointments I am announcing today were approved by Senate committees months ago, yet still await a vote of the Senate. At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months. I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government.”


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Well said, Mr. President.

[napi21]

9. It's about time! He should also recess appoint all the nominees

that the pubs have holds on in the Senate now! Show the Pubs HE is the POTUS not them!

[mucifer]

10. nice!

[lamp_shade]

11. YESSSSSSSS

[louis-t]

13. Need TSA appointee, quick.

Hope they have someone already vetted.

[flpoljunkie]

14. Awesome!

[Phx_Dem]

15. FUCKIN' A!!

Hey kid, I said fuck. How'd ya like that?

[Phx_Dem]

16. You know this was absolutely necessary when Justice Roberts said he should do it.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/03/24/roberts-nlrb/

[Thrill]

21. Why not one for Dawn Johnson?

[Uzybone]

17. Beautiful!

This had to be done

[amborin]

18. K&R this is great news, if I'm reading it correctly

[catgirl]

19. Link to Associated Press article

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100327/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_recess_appointments

WASHINGTON – Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.
The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in the Senate following a long, bruising fight over health care. Obama revealed his decision by blistering Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominees for months solely to try to score a political advantage on him.
"I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government," Obama said in a statement.
The 15 appointees to boards and agencies include the contentious choice of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans had blocked his nomination on grounds he would bring a radical pro-union agenda to the job, and they called on Obama not to appoint Becker over the recess.

[Jennicut]

20. Wonderful news today. Screw the obstructionist arrogant Rethugs.