Activist Pres
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How does an activist administration get political obstructionist hacks into top positions despite increasing concern in Congress?
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How does an activist administration get political obstructionist hacks into top positions despite increasing concern in Congress?
Answer
posted by Bill | 9:35 AM
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During his two terms in office, President Ronald W. Reagan made 240 recess
appointments, of which 116 were to full-time positions. President George H. W. Bush
made 77 recess appointments during his term of office; 18 were to full-time positions.
President William J. Clinton made 140 recess appointments during his eight years in
office, 95 to full-time positions. During his first term in office, President George W. Bush
made 110 recess appointments, of which 66 were to full-time positions.
Reference: http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RS21308.pdf
The claim that the Constitution provided for "recess appointments" as a "necessary check to prevent the legislative branch from bullying the executive branch" is bogus. Recess appointments were provided to alleviate the need to call Congress into session whenever a high office seat became vacant during a Congressional recess. The respect a President has for the Constitution is inversely proportional to the number of recess appointments he makes for any other reason than the original Constitutional intent.
You overestimate my respect for Clinton and the Democrats.
Have you ever considered the possibility that the framers of the Constitution wanted the process of choosing people of authority in government to be a shared responsibility? Probably not. Most likely you are the "rubber stamp" type of guy, somehow imagining that the Constitution was written to guarantee the powers of an American dictatorship and a weak Democratic Congress. You're in good company Mike, but I don't sleep in your camp with all your traitor buddies.
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