DeMint Claims That Republican Senators Just Wanted ‘Some Debate And A Vote’ On Obama’s Nominees

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DeMint Claims That Republican Senators Just Wanted ‘Some Debate And A Vote’ On Obama’s Nominees

Yesterday, President Obama announced his intention to recess appoint 15 qualified nominees who have faced an “unprecedented level” of GOP obstruction to fill “critical” administration positions. From a statement by White House Communications Director Jen Psaki:

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One of the people receiving a recess appointment is Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, which protects workers from unfair labor practices. As Psaki explained, although the “five member board has been trying to operate with only two members,” Becker has “been waiting for 261 days or over 8 months” to be confirmed.

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Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) tried to make the GOP obstruction sound reasonable, claiming that all they wanted was “some debate and a vote”:

DEMINT: Craig Becker, who was in the group that he appointed by executive fiat yesterday, is someone who has worked for unions his entire career. He put him on a board that is supposed to be unbiased arbitrators between businesses and unions. Democrats opposed this nomination. So, there’s bipartisan opposition. All we had asked for is some debate and a vote on this nominee. He decided to circumvent Congress again — which has become his style on so many issues — and just appoint him while we were out of town.

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[Chipper Chat]

1. Who cares what Jim DeWaterloo thinks anymore?

Senate republicans are irrelevant.

[Blue_Roses]

2. oh, good grief...

:eyes:

these are the whiniest bunch of people...how quickly they forget John Bolton.

sheesh....

[Tippy]

7. And Jim Dimwit is one of the worse...Just calling it like it is....n/t

[Bluzmann57]

3. A simple question for DeMint

Why haven't repukes debated and voted on Obama's nominees?
A simple answer. Because you all just want to say NO to anything Obama does. Period. See, even a simple mind like mine can figure that out. So stfu and crawl back into your corner.

[WinkyDink]

10. Ah, but did the TV "interviewer" ask this obvious query?

[Kber]

4. Well good

so as soon as they are back, they can have that debate and vote, right?

Right?

[boppers]

5. You had 261 days to do that, silly child.

Sheesh.

[wroberts189]

6. "all they wanted was “some debate and a vote”? The self declared party of no?

They just do not get it yet... the hypocrisy always backfires on them ..yet they still try again...don't they know about the "internets"? Already there are major news outlets reporting on Bolton and W's recess appointments.

And the fact that w got a lot more in by this time.

[Cha]

8. demint oozes lies.

[bluestateguy]

9. People on the obstructionist side always say that they just want "debate"

I know because I've been on that side before.

[Kdillard]

11. Yeah well I have a bridge in Brooklyn and pigs can fly

[sam sarrha]

12. lying sacks of rancid shit...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Maybe Obama was just paying more attention to McCain

and his stern *pledge* that there would be NO "further" cooperation with President Obama and/or the Democrats in Congress during the rest of the session (with no repudiation from anybody else).
:eyes:

DeMint can go suck it!

[pleah]

14. Lying sack of shit. n/t

[Jennicut]

15. I think the debate had gone on long enough. Obama is behind Bush in the # of Nominee's appointed

because of Rethug obstructionism. Enough is enough. They didn't want a debate, they wanted to stop the nominees. Mr. Waterloo should at least be honest about it.

[Alcibiades]

16. Bush made more than 200 recess appointments

No outrage from DeMint.

Even John Bolton said that recess appointments would be a good idea for the Obama administration:

"The Constitution provides for it and I'd be more than happy to see the president exercise his constitutional prerogatives and make some recess appointments."

John fucking Bolton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/bush-recess-appointee-to_n_468893.html

[and-justice-for-all]

17. Fuck the repukes, they had their eight years...nt