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Obama’s recess appointments are symptoms of a larger constitutional problem. W. James Antle, III American Spectator 1/9/2012 Last week President Obama filled some vacancies in the government by making several recess appointments. There was just one problem: Congress technically wasn’t in recess. The president bypassed a Senate that was in session, circumventing its constitutional advice […] January 9th, 2012 | Tags: bureaucracy, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, hypocrisy, President George W. Bush, Richard Cordray, Separation of Powers, tyranny | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Politics, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Zeke Miller Business Insider 9/15/2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind reports that at the height of the financial crisis, President Barack Obama ordered Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to devise a plan to dissolve Citigroup — a directive his subordinate ignored, the Associated Press reports. The revelation, included in Suskind’s forthcoming book on the Obama administration’s […] September 16th, 2011 | Tags: bureaucracy, Citigroup, Ron Suskind, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Books/media, Economy, Politics, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Kevin Hassett Bloomberg Opinion 8/1/2010 One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans […] August 4th, 2010 | Tags: bureaucracy, Kathleen Sebelius, Rep. Kevin Brady | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Health and Human Services, Economy, Health Care, Socialism, Taxes | Comments are closed
William La Jeunesse FoxNews.com 3/26/2010 While Congress spent the last year debating how to provide health insurance for the uninsured, a little-known provision slipped into the heath care law that could cost some Americans upwards of $2,000 a year. The Class Act, otherwise known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act, is the […] March 27th, 2010 | Tags: bureaucracy, Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, Long-term care | Category: Government programs, Health Care | Comments are closed
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