Think Progress: President Obama Has Made Far Fewer Recess Appointments Than Any Recent President

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8. Doesn't all this constitute some kind of malfeasance?

I just heard on the radio that the Senate has been holding pro forma sessions with the express purpose of preventing an appointment being made. While it's their right to withhold consent if the prospective appointment is unqualified or otherwise unacceptable, surely it is improper for them block an appointment for the sole purpose of obstructing the function of government. Now they are holding sessions just so that the positions will remain vacant. That has to be improper in some way. Of course, I don't think that stops Obama from making the appointments. A thirty second session with only one member in attendance cannot hold appoint hearings, so essential Congress is out.

Anyway, this has to be a huge boon for the Democratic efforts in the upcoming Congressional elections. The number of actions taken in the past two years by the Republicans in Congress for the sole purpose of impeding the normal function of government is staggering. I think they can't help but garner a reputation as Nihilists.

These men are cowards, Donny....