So this morning as I'm driving to work I hear a story on NPR about President Obama making a recess appointment for the Consumer Protection Agency. The reporter says that the Republicans are saying that President Obama was out of line for making the appointment because they are not really "in recess". See they didn't want him making a recess appointment so most of them went home for the holidays, but they didn't call an official "recess". Instead they're holding a conference call daily and members are calling in and reporting for work from their districts. This, they say, means they're not in "recess". This, they say, means they're working. Want to know how long the phone call was on the day Obama made the recess appointment? 40 seconds. Yeah, I said it SECONDS, not even MINUTES. And they call that a day of work. I call that Bull Hockey.
There is a recess going on all right, but it's more like elementary school nonsense and bullying on the playground. If you can't figure out who the bullies are let me know and I'll educate you on that one.
This is not professional. These are not the actions of adults. Obama had every right to make this very important recess appointment. The Republicans are working harder at trying to stop him from being even the littlest bit effective than they are working to help create jobs and to help their constituents and the country at large. I call BS on this whole bunch of shenanigans.
40 seconds of work and you call yourself an adult! I beg to differ.
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be nice to return those repubs to the private sector on election day :)
Oh, wouldn't it be? I feel like we're trying to do real work with a group of people who are playing games and changing the rules all the time and insisting that their rule changes are the right way to do things, all evidence to the contrary. It's exhausting.
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