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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (178660)1/6/2012 4:06:49 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 541559
 
The whole pro-forma session thing is based on nothing in the Constitution, so that argument is a wash.

Plainly put, the Republicans have decreed that although the Constitution requires the President to make appointments to existing posts and agencies, they are not going to cooperate with that. They don't like the law that passed in 2010 (with much Republican support), so they're just going to hold their breath until they turn blue to prevent it from being enacted.

Well, this President still wants to uphold his Constitutional responsibility to make these appointments, and thus to allow the government to function. It is not he who will not allow the will of the people, as expressed in elections, to be carried out.

The Republicans have no credible defense on this. They've behaved like children. Now the President, finally, has decided to be the grownup in the room. Good for him.
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