{"id":2524,"date":"2012-01-04T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:44:58","slug":"obama-bypassing-the-congress-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/obama-bypassing-the-congress-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Bypassing The Congress Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"360\" height=\"274\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yrkl8D6cCgQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pharaoh Obama once again going around Congress, blaming republicans for the appointment. Another power grab by the dictator in chief!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/blog\/?postid=273766\">Speaker.gov<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=273740\">Speaker Boehner<\/a> called the appointment an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and noted that <strong>the position \u00e2\u20ac\u0153had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Obama sets up clash with Congress over recess banking pick<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Congressional officials said President <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/barack-obama\/\">Obama<\/a> used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/restoring-american-financial-stability-act\/\">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau<\/a> in a move Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.<\/p>\n<p>The president acted just a day after the <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a> held a session \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a move that breaks with at least three different precedents that said the <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a> must be in recess for at least three days. <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/barack-obama\/\">Mr. Obama<\/a> himself was part of two of those precedents, both during his own time in the <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a>and again in 2010 when one of his administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top constitutional lawyers made the three-day argument to the <a href=\"safari-resource:\/topics\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a>&#8230;.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/4\/obama-unprecedented-recess-appointment\/\">Read More @ Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharaoh Obama once again going around Congress, blaming republicans for the appointment. Another power grab by the dictator in chief! Speaker.gov: Speaker Boehner called the appointment an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and noted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[257,13,549,169],"tags":[4942,4940,4941,4939,4943,4944,195,4,4946,4936,4938,4947,336,4937,4948,4945,112],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}