Shrub to make another Executive appointment while Congress is off!

[napi21]

He's to appoint Michael Barutti (sp) as Head of the Consumer Products Safety Cmmission.

EXCEPT this guy used to be the head of the National Assoc. of Manufacturers!

Yet another fox guarding the hen house!

Iheard this on Lynn Cullen's show, so I had to guess at the spelling of his name!

[lyonn]

1. Ballsy Bush, - - Unbelievably arrogant as usual.

[Morgana LaFey]

2. Congress should NEVER take another recess break, then

And I'm serious. Complaints should be sent directly to Bush. If he wants to PROMISE no more opportunistic recess appointments, then Congress can once again go ahead and recess. Otherwise, no. Not even through Christmas.

[napi21]

3. I like your idea, but it will NEVER happen!

Can you just seeany of them agreeing never to get another holiday off? In fact, can you see any of US agreeing to that? Hmmmm....nope!

[Czolgosz]

4. Does that mean the jackass who his the consumer safety information about the lead in lunch boxes is

gone?

[napi21]

5. I don't know. All she read was a notice she received about

Shrub naming this new guy as the head of the commission. I don't know who you're talking about though. Was he the head of the commission of just an assistant and they didn't HAVE a chairman? Maybe the media will have more on this in today's news.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. "Maybe the media will have more on this in today's news."

:rofl:

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[Divernan]

13. The lunch box research/coverup was in 2005; Bush's apptd. chair left in summer, 2006.

See my post below.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. do you mean a recess appointment?

Congress isn't in recess, and won't be for awhile, iirc.

Is this a post that requires senate approval?

[napi21]

8. Yes it's a recess appointment, andShrub thinks because they're

off today because of President's Day, that means a recess! At least that's what Lynn Cullen said.

[MonkeyFunk]

9. Hrm....

I doubt it.

I don't think a 1-day recess has been used for a recess appointment since Theodore Roosevelt. In more modern times, the Justice Department has opined that a 3-day minimum recess would be required. In either case, making a recess appointment during such a short recess would be VERY politically unpopular, and the Senate is unlikely to respond well to it.

Congress does have the power to stop payment for a recess appointment, and I suspect they would do so in a case like this which would be seen as a pure slap to Congress.

It's certainly possible, but it just strikes me as unlikely.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. more info...

I just did a little googling, and learned that the board normally has three members. It's had two members since last July, and by law, the commission can only operate for 6 months without three members, so last month was the deadline to fill the last spot. Currently, the commission can't fulfill much of its charter.

So maybe he is using a recess appointment - but I hope that the congress refuses to pay him.


Edit: his name is Michael Baroody, and he was the Vice-President of the National Association of Manufacturers. I can't find any mention of him being appointed today, though.

[Divernan]

12. Here's more on the slime Bush will try to name as chairman of CPSC

This is a clip from an email I researched to send to some people on my email list, warning them of the lead-contaminated lunch boxes, which findings the CPSC covered up.

"Also, the 3 member federal Consumer Product Safety Commission which covered up this matter (referring to the lead contaminated children's lunch boxes) is currently powerless to enact new rules or levy fines because it has had only two commissioners since Chairman Hal Stratton, another Bush appointee, abruptly resigned six months ago to become a lobbyist. In a game of insider/Bush donor musical chairs, Michael Baroody, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers, a powerful trade group that opposes aggressive product safety regulation, is President Bush's choice to HEAD the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Bush is expected to make a "recess appointment", i.e, where the appointment will not be subject to Congressional hearings/approval."

[jmowreader]

11. I think Shrub WANTS to get thrown out of office

The job's not fun anymore. Everyone hates him. There's a clear majority right now that wishes the Bush presidency was over right now.

He can't resign because his political benefactors haven't finished the job of making America worse than Benin.

He can't jump off the roof of the White House because Jeebus says you can't get into heaven if you kill yourself.

The only thing he's got left is impeachment. So he's doing everything in his power to get his ass thrown out of office.

Couple the "figure out some way to bypass Congress on everything" story we had up here a couple days ago with Bush's considering a one-day break to be a good time to make a recess appointment, and it's fairly obvious: this is a call for help, and the help Bush seeks most is a plane ticket back to Connecticut where he belongs and the phone number of a moving company.

[Morgana LaFey]

17. No, as a sociopath, he delights in breaking the law, pushing the

limit, seeing how much he can get away with, which is a LOT -- tooooooo much.

[Marie26]

14. Sigh

It's Michael Baroody. His father, William Baroody, is the head of the American Enterprise Institute.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Manufacturers

[napi21]

15. Oh God! Anyone associated with that group is always BAD!

I really am beginning to be convinced that we will NEVER recover from the Shrub presidencies! I meanI'm getting downright scared! Is it even possible for a newPreszident, no matter who it is, to bring this Country back to the way we had it?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. I thought maybe he was going to appoint an American Viceroy to rule Iran

and again scour Kissinger & Associates for a candidate, before I opened your post.

But this appointment is pretty disgusting, too, and is the typical M.O. of ChimpCo.