President Obama’s power is growing.
Today’s’ presidential appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB breaks the traditional recess appointment process. Generally the congress must be in recess for 3 days before the President can do this. This was even the administration position in an argument before the Supreme Court in 2010 to reaffirm the three day window the Clinton shortened from the historical ten day window. Interesting how things change….
And speaking of change…the complete silence from the Democrat party on the signing
of the National Defense Authorization Act and the potential of indefinite detainment
of citizens is a real change from the howling we heard under Bush…much less the “audacity” of the Patriot act. The really
interesting part is the absurdity of the president signing statement as a ruse
to “protect” US
citizens.
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without
trial of American citizens … Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with
our most important traditions and values as a nation.
This is silly and completely
disingenuous when it was the administration who requested the exception for
Americans be removed from the bill. The only people howling are conservatives…and
the ACLU!
I wish I could understand what this man
is thinking. His consolidation of power started with the appointment Of Czars, circumvention
of the legislature by the EPA, the improper recess appointments and this ability
to detain anyone on the planet with out trial…(in all fairness I’m really only
interested in US citizens here). There are many other examples of over reach
but this new power authorized in the NDAA is particularly troubling. I’m not
very happy with republicans in congress who were rushed along with this and may
not have been able to parse the requisites in the two defining sections on
detention 1021 and 1022. The latter
section exempts citizens; however the preceding discretionary detention does
not and the wording may have confused those gleaning the 1800 pages.
The president is facing a very hard campaign coming up. I have to wonder what power he will attempt to gain prior to November. None the less many of these power grabs should be at odds with principles of the left. Or perhaps…it’s change(d).
cw
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