You’ll never guess who just criticized President Obama for abusing his constitutional authority by using a recess appointment to make Richard Cordray head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is so delicious I’m putting the answer “under the fold.”
The answer is … John Yoo. Seriously.
Yoo has offered to advise anyone who wants to challenge the appointment in court. In fact, I found a picture of Yoo discussing the case with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce —
Guessing without looking: John Woo. Now checking …
I meant Yoo. Sorry.
The comments are hysterical.
I see a rather attractive female soliciting – not a toothless, drunken, bearded male hag with a meth and coke jones, who’ll blow your dachsund for pocket change, and the neighbor’s St. Bernard for whatever’s behind the seat cushions in the car.
In the whole Bush-bunch, Yoo may be the worst. And that’s some pretty stiff competition.
And the fact that he’s not begging for a modern Mother Teresa to save his pitiful, starving AIDS and leper ridden male-whore ass on the streets of Calcutta, after all of this, says more about us being a kinder society than we realize, than him, who deserves even worse.
I’m sorry for the vulgarities, and including him with poor AIDS and leper ridden male whores, who deserve better than to compared to that total waste of oxygen, carbon, and water like him.
Pretty much the Republican reaction when the President does ANYTHING.
What’s interesting to me, is how the ante has been upped. The Republicans found a way to get around recess appointments by theoretically never going into recess – and so Yoo is willing to battle Obama’s supposed overstep. I’ll let others talk about the irony/hypocrisy of Yoo. He is not important – any right wing stooge will do.
By “upping the ante” I mean it in the way that two antagonistic parties keep finding ways to advance their opposing agendas, getting further and further away from compromise. It’s like a couple that, step by step, is moving toward divorce. This is how things like the Civil War got started.
Last year, we saw how the wingnuts refused a debt agreement, losing the country’s AAA credit rating, a hugely historical event. Next step is this, finding a way to deny Obama’s appointments. These are all progressive steps along the way toward Civil War.
Since this Congress hasn’t actually done anything, isn’t it always in recess?
It just goes to show the wisdom of that old folk saying:
Once a douche, always a douche.
I believe that the Democrats did this during the Bush administration, and the Bush Administration was of the opinion that it did not hamper his ability to make recess appointments. (Not that I consider a Bush Administration opinion worth the paper it’s printed on, unless it’s printed on toilet paper unspoiled by the printing, in which case it would be worth precisely that much, if one’s TP supply is low.)
It is an interesting case, and my biggest concern is the whining. If the Republicans think this is a big deal, they should bring it to court. Either put up or shut up. Trying to make it a big, big deal, but not so big that it’s worth challenging in court, is trying to play both sides.
It is a question that requires settling. I think Obama is right to force the issue for that reason alone.
Ah yes, Mr. Yoo (but I think it was Woo) was the one who told George Bush that anything the Constitution did not strictly forbid the President from doing, he could do. Murder, rape, robbery, specific tortures, the list is huge and in the hands of George, the consequences lethal.