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 Offline laffinalltheway
 Post subject: Looking Forward in 2012
PostPosted: 01/01/12 5:59 am • # 1 
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As I See it: Looking Forward in 2012
January 1, 2012
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Happy New Year? We can hope so. 2011 was a rough year for America and Americans, as I noted here yesterday in our year-end edition of the Dirty Thirty. As a New York Times editorial said on the year's last day, “After they took power in January, the hard-line Republicans who dominate the House reached for a radical overhaul of American government, hoping to unravel the social safety net, cut taxes further for the wealthy and strip away regulation of business.â€
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gopqed
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PostPosted: 01/01/12 6:08 am • # 2 
It's such a turnaround for Democrats, who were so opposed to recess appointments when a Republican was in the White House, but are screaming for them now.
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 Offline oskar576
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PostPosted: 01/01/12 6:28 am • # 3 
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The Dems use recess appointments.
The Repubs abuse the privilege.
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 Offline sooz06
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PostPosted: 01/01/12 6:28 am • # 4 
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What a disingenuous comment from you, gop! ~ the Dems would not be pushing for recess appointments now if the GOP/TP allowed qualified candidates to get an up-or-down vote instead of automatically filibustering every candidate for everything ~

Sooz
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 Offline oskar576
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PostPosted: 01/01/12 8:32 am • # 5 
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sooz08 wrote:
What a disingenuous comment from you, gop! ~ the Dems would not be pushing for recess appointments now if the GOP/TP allowed qualified candidates to get an up-or-down vote instead of automatically filibustering every candidate for everything ~

Sooz
BAM!
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 Offline macroscopic
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PostPosted: 01/01/12 3:06 pm • # 6 
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yeah, seriously, gop. i know you don't like the fact that many posts, including several crucial ones, have been held up. are you just playing gotcha, here?
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Dee
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PostPosted: 01/02/12 6:07 pm • # 7 
I'd like to see Obama stop trying to be Mr. Nice Guy to a bunch of men who have shown him no respect since he entered office.
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 Offline Chaos333
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 3:02 am • # 8 
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It's such a turnaround for Republicans, who were so willing to support recess appointments when a Republican was in the White House, but are screaming against them now.

There, Gop...I fixed that for you.Image
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gopqed
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 3:10 am • # 9 
I have no problem with recess appointments.  It's a legitimate option for the President.

It's many of the rest of you here who pissed and moaned when Bush used them but now are advocating their use by Obama.
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 Offline sooz06
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 3:28 am • # 10 
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sooz08 wrote:
What a disingenuous comment from you, gop! ~ the Dems would not be pushing for recess appointments now if the GOP/TP allowed qualified candidates to get an up-or-down vote instead of automatically filibustering every candidate for everything ~

Sooz

Perhaps you missed my prior post, gop ~ personally, I'm not in favor of recess appointments UNLESS there is a valid reason ~ FTR, I do see virtual total obstruction "just because" as a valid reason ~

Sooz
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gopqed
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 3:32 am • # 11 

Obama has had a higher percentage of judicial appointments approved than Bush had.
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 Offline sooz06
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 3:45 am • # 12 
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If that is true, it is only very recently, gop ~ and it's certainly not by much ~ but, more importantly, there is still a "judicial crisis" because there are so many UNfilled judicial seats ~ I am strongly/deeply/forever anti "holds" by anyone on anyone for purely obstructionary reasons ~

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 Offline Chaos333
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 4:23 am • # 13 
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George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, of which 99 were to full-time positions.

 As of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments, all to full-time




Yep....no difference there at all.Image
 
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 Offline oskar576
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 10:22 am • # 14 
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Chaos333 wrote:

George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, of which 99 were to full-time positions.

 As of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments, all to full-time




Yep....no difference there at all.Image
 
There you go again with those facts.
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 Offline sooz06
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 11:03 am • # 15 
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gop limited his comment to "judicial appointments approved" ~ which is itself disingenuous because gop offers no, and I can't find, any comparison of how many judicial seats were open for gwb or how many remained open at this point in his presidency ~ I'm still searching for that info ~ I do know that just before leaving WDC for the holidays, the Senate approved a number of Obama's judicial candidates ~

Sooz
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 Offline macroscopic
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PostPosted: 01/03/12 7:54 pm • # 16 
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gopqed wrote:

Obama has had a higher percentage of judicial appointments approved than Bush had.


that makes sense, given that the ones that were approved were not controversial in any way.
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