So, the President made some recess appointments yesterday.
Either through arrogance or stupidity, two traits not favorable to a Chief Executive, he overstepped his boundaries, at the House Republican’s design, and made them unconstitutionally. Not to mention that what he did specifically ignores the language of the Dodd-Frank Act.
However, since Obama’s only re-election game plan until he gets an actual opponent is to run against the Republicans in Congress, Congress cannot fight him on these appointments. He has the bully pulpit and a national press ready and willing to help him win this fight the same way he won the fight over the Payroll Tax Cut extension fight.
Keep your eyes on the US Chamber of Commerce. They’re already “bad guys” to the media and the left (but I repeat myself). This won’t hurt them a bit.
Does this mean that His O’Wonderfulness has deemed the POS legislative vomit called Dodd-Frank is void?
It means that the heavens have opened up, and The One has spoken.
IIRC, there’s another hurdle to the recess appointment process that I have rarely seen mentioned. I believe that, in order for a recess appointment to be valid, the post contemplated must become vacant during a recess, and be critical enough that it must be filled before the legislature will return.
I don’t think that happened. But I’m a music teacher, not a constitutional scholar, and I could be wrong.