Obama Escalates Appointments Crisis, Claims Cordray Has Full Powers Without Senate Approval…
Via Daily Caller:
President Barack Obama today escalated his claimed power to appoint top officials by announcing that his financial-sector appointee also has authority that is legally reserved only for an official who has been confirmed by the Senate.
The 2010 law that established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau includes a section that says many of the bureau’s new powers are to be held by the secretary of the Treasury “until the Director of the Bureau is confirmed by the Senate.”
Obam’s Jan. 3. claim to have appointed Cordray appears to violate the Constitution and is a grab for increased presidential power, say many constitutional lawyers.
But his new Jan. 6 claim about Cordray’s powers goes even further by contradicting the plain language of the 2010 law that created the bureau.
Section 1066 of the law says many of the bureau’s new powers are activated once the Senate confirms a director. Those extra powers include the authority to write regulations for non-bank firms, such as payday lenders.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, January 6, 2012, at 8:29 pm | 
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This power-drunk son of a bitch is begging for impeachment
He is firing up his voting base and Maxine Waters by bypassing the “do nothing Congress”. His peeps are still waiting for his to start paying them from his stash.
I hate this POS! I baffled why republcians or anyone else for that matter is not doing a damn thing about this bullshit!
I’m sure this was the lead story on the MSM news tonight….or could it have been that ‘unemployment’ is down to 8.5%?
8.5% is a fantasy; U-6 is over 15%. Will that be reported?
Is there legal recourse …?
NoDragonspeak says:
January 6, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Is there legal recourse …?
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What are we going to do? Take him to court?
Look how long the ObamaCare case is taking……
@Zcat
There are very few things that can be done oddly enough. Prior to 1923 a writ of quo warranto and a writ of mandamus could have been filed but SCOTUS scuttled that route and vitiated the All Writs Act. Congress cannot defund the agency because they don’t fund it – this agency tells the Fed how much money it needs and gets it.
When a rule is issued by this outfit or the NLRB any affected entity can sue to block it based on the appointment and the statutory language, but until then not much can happen.
Obama is right as long as the chickenshits in the GOP say and do nothing.
They are making me sicker by the day as our country turns into a banana republic because they are feckless and selfish.
Why oh WHY do I smell an attempt here by Obama to popularize the positions of Rep. Ron Paul, a Constitutionalist? Could it be “President” Obama wants his opponent in 2012 to be the unelectable Ron Paul and this is his feeble attempt at trashing the US Constitution to get Paul on the ticket for 2012?
By the way, the exercise of illegitimate power won’t slow Cordray down a bit. He is like Holder, the law is there only to be twisted to one’s own purpose.
Is Cordray a love child of Dennis Kucinich? Looks like him.
NBC, CBS, ABC would giggle with delight if Obama announced himself as a Socialist on national TV.
Guess what guys, this new ‘consumer agency’ is funded directly as a percentage of the budget. It bypasses Congress for funding.
This was one of the little gems that Pelosi slipped into being during her grand legislative session.
@Katherine – The agency is being funded with the cuts to the DOD.
Corday was the guy from Indiana, who got in trouble for using state funds to investigate Joe the Plumber, 3 state employees using government databases to “out” Joe during the 2008 campaign. Did not ‘Scooter’ Libby go to jail for outing Valerie Plame during the Bush administration? Same type scandal, different outcome.
scroll down for bonus monarchial cartoon raaaaacism and commentary!
Barack Obama is mentally ill. There is something radically wrong with his mind. Certainly with his soul but that’s another story. I’m quite serious about this issue as to his mental health, however, or, rather, mental unwellness, because a deranged President is a dangerous thing, to himself AND the rest of us.
Barack Obama is mentally ill. Congress urgently needs to do whatever is necessary to protect us, this nation, from this very sick man.
@Katherine & Dapandico:
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/banking-trojan-military-1435/
Question for both of you, how do you suppose this new CFPB will “deal” with the military? This article really isn’t the particular one I had in mind, couldn’t locate what I was thinking of. However, have heard of military being “bombarded” with “goofy” banking issues of one type or another. Do you suppose it’s possible something was created and then voila a nice solution created after that?
Would like to hear what either or both of you know on this regard. Thanks.
I know that the travel cards of active duty member have been attacked and that some have received “official” e-mail traffic on their official military AKO accounts. Also the Stratfor hacking has affected some.
I feel that “anonymous” has hacked numerous sites affiliate with military members such as USAA to gain access to their banking info. I have seen message traffic on AKO about the phising scams.
“Those extra powers include the authority to write regulations for non-bank firms….”
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It’s questionable whether a Senate-approved candidate would have this power. Congress is not allowed to delegate it’s ‘rule-making’ authority to another branch of government. It only stands to reason that those powers couldn’t be acquired through theft either.
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Frankly, at this point I’m pretty much convinced that Obama is doing everything he can to PROVOKE impeachment hearings, so that he can play the victim card. He owns the Senate, which would decide the matter, so he’s safe that way, and since he owns around 80% of the media, he probably believes that he is in a win-win situation. The Republicans can try to impeach, giving him the victim card to play, or they stay back, and allow him to do whatever he wants while Tingles Matthews and the rest of his ilk carry his propaganda water jug for him.
@Hickster – The U.S. Army has Army Community Services (ACS) that offers financial counseling and same service as the CFPB. When the mortgage crisis hits, numerous lenders were ignoring the Service Members Civil Relief Act and ACS stepped in while the current administration stood on the sidelines.
@Dapandico: Ok. Thanks.
@crudcutter
That totally sucks! it wouldn’t matter anyway republicans are a bunch of cowards and refuse to do nothing about anythin gthis bastard does!
He’s practically daring them to enforce the constitution.
@Dapandico: Stood on the sidelines. For what reasons would that make a person’s hair stand up on the back of one’s neck, so to speak? When putting all this massive EO’s and what not into a gigantic pile?
(no answer needed on that question)
Thanks.
The next Republican president should be thanking Obama for creating a nice, useful new precedent. Of course, the problem here is that if the next Republican president does this, he’ll be hammered in the press and, perhaps, by the man who is now the current president.
I can’t wait till we win the election and the conservative president uses this as a precedent to overule any congressional opposition when he shuts down 95% of the federal government.
If there is hope, it lies in the Proles.
A power grab by a megalomaniac. Didn’t the Nazis start out this way?
Yes, they did
Time to stop making nice, and call this asshole on hie Hitlerian ambitions
And fuck the bullshit gasps from his useful idiot pals, call a spade a fucking shovel.
I think they really think no one is paying attention. They think independents hated Bush because he was Bush, that was never the case. Heck even Bush was never this blatant in his treatment of the US Consitution and the Senate.
The demonRats do not have a clue this is why they are fleeing this lunatic party and becoming independents. The only crowd this radical marxist wants to “win” over are the daily kooks crowd.
This man is a dictator, a coward and a dictator.
trying to see how much he can get away with, it appears
He’s (Obama’s) got this set up to crush, roll-over, and win. Do you hear the Republicans or Democrats in office objecting? Of course not. He’s got this in hand and is running for the win. As long as you see no opposition by the House or the Senate, you know he’s on a roll. I don’t know what hold he has over them, but it is definitely there. Sex partners died conveniently, so did grandma.
His appointment today of Jose Rico capped it all. Look him up. Big time Marxist/communist.
He (Obama) almost has his full new cabinet in place.
How fast are we sinking into a dictatorship under Obama?
Don’t follow anything coming from this man. He’s a criminal. Don’t follow anything coming from this lawless regime. If Congress doesn’t stop him, we will have to.
He should be removed under the 25th amendment. He’s a psychopath.
There appear to be no patriotic Americans left in positions of authority capable of stopping this usurper.
They are all meekly surrendering the U.S.A. to this criminal communist coup.
Can you imagine what these criminals are doing behind the scenes that we never get to hear about?
God help you.
Galloping Marxism in Our Schools
Karl Heinrich Marx was a brilliant man. The sage co-founder of one of the two principal social scouges of the twentieth century knew the surest path to godless tyranny was centralized control of schools, colleges, and universities.
Marx recognized Communism-Marxism’s critical need to propagandize the young in order to rid them of anti-proletariat ideas inculcated by parents and churches and for public schools to adopt curricula that denies God, morality, traditional family values, the concept of private ownership of property, and to stoke class warfare.
If any of that sounds familiar, it should. America is experiencing Marxism-in-action today as seen not only in tax policies but in the widespread, leftist radicalism on college campuses and public schools becoming hotbeds of social brainwashing to complement the deteriorization of standards and learning.
We are seeing the patently unconstitutional intrusion of the federal government into local education with dictates, mandates, and oversights by the U.S. Department of Education as it rapidly centralizes control of American education.
We are witnessing the leftist National Education Association busily engaged in discouraging parental choice and home-schooling and fully endorsing those federal intrusions while pushing for inclusion and diversity instead of more effective education.
We are burdened with local districts too feckless to denounce governmental encroachments and administrators too imbued with liberal doctrine to resist the leftward lurch toward the Marxist ideals embraced by our president.
To be sure, there were unmistakable signs of controlled centralization- indoctrination long before the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
Since 2009, however, those signs have developed into a full-blown tsunami of Marxist doctrinaires and godless subversives acting under the guise of educators, all of whom were committed adherents to Obama’s twisted Marxist philosophy, many of whom signed on to his carefully-designed cult of personality.
At first, it was comical when schools like one in Hempstead, New York re-named themselves after Obama even before he was elected. Another in Asbury Park, New Jersey did likewise, before it was closed last July.
Throughout the nation, countless schools, localities, school districts, and streets changed names in honor of someone whose primary claim to fame was his (partial) blackness, whose father was a Marxist, and who has governed as if he dreams the collectivist dreams of his father.
Indoctrination of children comes in many colors. One favorite ploy is the use of songs.
A classic was the ditty composed by a black New Jersey teacher in 2009 who forced her class to sing a paean to their new god. Its unmemorable lyrics included, Mmm, mmm, mm!/Barack Hussein Obama/He said that all must lend a hand/To make this country strong again. . .” It gets worse with, ”Mmm, mmm, mm!/ Barack Hussein Obama/Yes!”
The parody is a vast improvement: “Mmm, mmm, mm!/Barack Hussein Obama/He said we must pay the man/To make this country strong again/Taking your money doesn’t matter/’cause we know He can spend it better. . .”
That song is old hat now. Obamamarxists have expanded their musical vistas to incorporate anarchic elements in their efforts to undermine values and seduce children into believing chaos and revolution were superior to order and civilized behavior. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12029.)
None of his should come as any surprise if anyone had done their homework the first place instead instead of letting those pukes from Chicago come in with Herr Alinsky and start beating the shit out of everybody. The great American intellect!! What a joke!! Get it shoved up your ass with a smile. Everyday they shove something more up there. What is the point of terminus? Total destruction? All talk and no action. We’ve become a nation of pussies.
’http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/01/06/obscure-law-could-limit-richard-cordrays-power/
“But an obscure paragraph in the 2010 law that created the bureau may keep Cordray in check unless the Senate formally approves of his hiring—an approval Obama sought to circumvent by making him a so-called ‘recess’ appointment.
Section 1066 of the law says many of the bureau’s new powers are to be held by the secretary of the Treasury ‘until the Director of the Bureau is confirmed by the Senate.”
When are these limp-dick Senators going to do anything to protect us from this raving lunatic? What in hell does it take?!!!
Like LarryG says, where the hell is the senate? If this mutt isn’t leashed this year he’ll have suborned the entire US government in his attempt to ‘get things done’.
IM[EACH OBAMA,IMPEACH OBAMA,IMPEACH OBAMA RRRRRAAAAAAAWWWWWKKKK
Always the Stalin/hitleresque staged rallies, with bought, brain-dead faces grinning in camera shot and cheering…