In practice she will run the agency, she has a direct access to the pres. controls a huge budget, hiring, writing regs and shape the agency Now, that may not matter to some but this is an end run around the senate. Its ‘legal’, sure, but lets not have any selectivity here.
Along with Craig Becker, she is another nominee who had/has not a ghost of a chance getting approval, hey if you want to stack Fed. Agencies with folks whom are ideologues to push an agenda, and are problematic as an example- appointed via recess appt. as the chairman of the NLRB; Craig Becker was associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents 1.8 million members, and is a former staff counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). He has not recused himself from (13) cases where in he has conflict of interest despite, promising to do so in writing before his appt btw.
How about Donald Berwick (MedicareObama care chief)
Elizabeth Warren is as problematic as Mssr's. Berwick and Becker.
Need I go back and make hay over machinations like this that drew the ire of msm as applied but the former admin.? When Bolton was appointed via recess appt,. ( much more 'legal or conscionable appt.) You could not pick up a paper or flip on the tube without being subjected to screeds on why this was a violation of the spirit of the advice and consent etc. this, is far worse.
Its ‘legal’, sure, but lets not have any selectivity here now and in the future, and lets not have any angst then when inevitably as it will, the admin. changes and there are appointments being made outside advise and consent scope that don’t align themselves with your political outlook, just because the media has told you its ‘more’ unfair and ignores its own duplicity and hypocrisy.
I’ll post a few snips, feel free to actually read the article.
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But she is also so politically controversial that no less a liberal lion than Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has warned the White House that she probably isn't confirmable.
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The plan is for Ms. Warren to run the new bureau from an office at the Treasury Department. Instead of calling her the "Director" of the bureau—the statutory title for the organization's boss—Mr. Obama has appointed her an "assistant" to him and a special adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
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When Members of Congress objected to it being "independent" in the way Ms. Warren hoped, Mr. Dodd and the Administration cooked up a plan to make it part of the Federal Reserve without actually answering to anyone there. The bureau has independent rule-making authority and can grant itself an annual budget up to $646 million. It will draw this money from the operations of the Fed, so the bureau needn't deal with the messy intrusions of Congressional appropriators and will therefore receive limited Congressional oversight.
Ms. Warren's bureau will dictate how credit is allocated throughout the American economy—by banks and financial firms, and also by many small businesses that extend credit to consumers. The bureau's mandate under the new Dodd-Frank law is to ensure that "consumers are protected from unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices and from discrimination." If those terms sound vague and overbroad now, wait until Ms. Warren's hand-picked staff begins interpreting existing laws on fair lending and writes new rules.
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Ms. Warren was a vociferous opponent of allowing regulators charged with maintaining the safety and soundness of banks to control this new bureau. No matter how destructive its new rules may be, they can only be rescinded by a two-thirds vote of the Administration's new Financial Stability Oversight Council.
And the bureau will now be staffed and shaped by an "assistant" with no obligation to appear before the Senate. The possibility that an appointed official could hold significant authority is why the framers wrote the Senate into the process of approving the President's senior hires. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says the President "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . Officers of the United States."
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We have here another end-run around Constitutional niceties so Team Obama can invest huge authority in an unelected official who is unable to withstand a public vetting. So a bureau inside an agency (the Fed) that it doesn't report to, with a budget not subject to Congressional control, now gets a leader not subject to Senate confirmation. If Dick Cheney had tried this, he'd have been accused of staging a coup.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440604575495681843430198.html
Bolded for truth and I would have agreed as well.
You cannot decide to hold standards, THEN, then dump them 'because you can' and you just happen to agree with them, thats not how its supposed top work and I suspect you ALL know that.....
