Another recess appointment by our favorite dictator...

[PhillyKev 0]

Bush Puts Conservative on Court, Bypasses Congress

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Bush Puts Conservative on Court, Bypasses Congress

So?

Did you get upset when previous Democratic presidents made recess appointments?

[PhillyKev 0]

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Bush Puts Conservative on Court, Bypasses Congress

So?

Did you get upset when previous Democratic presidents made recess appointments?

Recess appointments of ambassadors to Luxemborg don't bother me too much. But judicial appointments do.

And once again, the argument from the right is....get ready....but Clinton did it.

You're right, he did, once in 8 years.

[gary350 0]

“Right-wing Zealot is Unfit to Judge”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 6, 2003)

“Unfit to Judge . . . Mr. Pryor’s speeches display a disturbingly politicized view of the role of courts.”
Washington Post (Apr. 11, 2003)

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Boo hoo, I didn't get my way so I'm gona' bitch for 4 years HEY get over it! It's legal, it's been done before, and Congress is illegally exxagerating their advise and consent powers!

Blue skies,

Jim

[Deuce 1]

Silly. If he were a dictator there would be no significance to a recess appointment. There would be no recess.

I think W did this just to piss you off. You. Personally.

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Silly. If he were a dictator there would be no significance to a recess appointment. There would be no recess.

I think W did this just to piss you off. You. Personally.

You know, I'm starting to think you're right. It's pretty hard to piss me off, and to piss me off this consistently so often, it's gotta be a concerted effort on his part.

[Deuce 1]

Bill ain't seen the black helicopters in almost a year. You outta check your windows.

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Bill ain't seen the black helicopters in almost a year. You outta check your windows.

I can't, they're covered with tinfoil and vaseline.

[Deuce 1]

How does the vaseline help? I know the foil is good for the mind control sattelites, but does the vaseline just trap the nanobots and keep them from invading the brain?

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does the vaseline just trap the nanobots and keep them from invading the brain?

ohhh....never thought of that one. No, the vaseline on the windows is an emergency food supply. You can live off that stuff for weeks.

[Deuce 1]

Really?

Cool.

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Hahaha I dunno about anyone else, but I was SURE this was gonna be someone complaining that someone got temporarily banned by Sangiro.
Dave

[Michele 1]

Relax, Kev....from the article you linked...

" All recess appointments are temporary, and if Bush wanted Pryor or Pickering to remain in the court positions he would need to renominate them."....

(Pssssssss.....I thought it was duct tape and plastic sheeting. Now it's vaseline and tin foil? I didn't get the memo. Darned nanobots....)

Ciels-
Michele

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While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[PhillyKev 0]

You're right, it's only for a year or so, not many important issues go through federal courts in that period of time.

[Deuce 1]

Maybe he had to install them to put an end to gay marriage? He probably wants to insinuate the South Texas Church of Intolerance into the legislative process.

Just in time.

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Recess appointments of ambassadors to Luxemborg don't bother me too much. But judicial appointments do.

And once again, the argument from the right is....get ready....but Clinton did it.

You're right, he did, once in 8 years.

First, I'm not from "the right".

Second, the argument is not "Clinton did it". My point is the hypocrisy you exhibit by calling Bush a "dictator", for doing the same thing that Presidents from your own party have done. I didn't hear you object to judicial recess appointments done by previous democratic presidents.

Third, since you acknowledge that Clinton did it also, does that make him a dictator also? Clinton averaged about nine non-judicial recess appointments per year - using the same principal to which you object here with Bush. George Washington made judicial recess appointments - was he a dictator? Prior to the 1960's, every President in U.S. history, but for two, had made them, over 300 of them - were all of those Presidents dictators too?

So you see, all you've really proven with your message posting, is that you exhibit an extreme and prejudiced bias against George Bush, and really have no foundation at all to call him a "dictator" relative to the acts of any other President.

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“Right-wing Zealot is Unfit to Judge”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 6, 2003)

“Unfit to Judge . . . Mr. Pryor’s speeches display a disturbingly politicized view of the role of courts.”
Washington Post (Apr. 11, 2003)

Fine examples of our so-called unbiased news media...

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My point is the hypocrisy you exhibit by calling Bush a "dictator", for doing the same thing that Presidents from your own party have done.

First off, I don't have a party. I have voted for democrats, republicans, libertarians and independents.

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I didn't hear you object to judicial recess appointments done by previous democratic presidents.

Probably because there haven't been any since I joined this site

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Third, since you acknowledge that Clinton did it also, does that make him a dictator also? Clinton averaged about nine non-judicial recess appointments per year

Clinton has used the recess appointment relatively sparingly; his average of nine per year is far lower than Reagan's 30 and Bush's 20. And the GOP Congress has consented to at least one unconfirmed Clinton appointment: When Drew Days stepped down as solicitor general in July 1996, the Senate let Clinton appoint Walter Dellinger--already confirmed as an asssistant attorney general--as "acting" solicitor general after Dellinger promised to serve only one year.

http://slate.msn.com/id/1002994/

And my dictator comment is not purely in reference to this one incident, it's related to his pattern of abuses and consolidation of power.

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So you see, all you've really proven with your message posting, is that you exhibit an extreme and prejudiced bias against George Bush,

You're right. I am prejudiced against GWB because he is a bumbling, idiotic, power hungry, egotistical, lying, fool. He's proven that with his actions since being in office.

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You're right. I am prejudiced against GWB because he is a bumbling, idiotic, power hungry, egotistical, lying, fool.

Stop mincing your words, dammit! What do you REALLY think?!

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They might as well do away the "advice and consent" farce, and just say you need 60 votes to install a judge. At least then we could do away with the semantics.

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You're right. I am prejudiced against GWB because he is a bumbling, idiotic, power hungry, egotistical, lying, fool. He's proven that with his actions since being in office.

OK - this is going TOO FAR. These kinds of insulting words are totally uncalled for!

On behalf of bumbling, idiotic, power hungry, egotistical, lying fools everywhere, I demand an apology for comparing us to that scumbag GWB! Now!

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Leave the scumbags out of this....don't lower them to the level of the subject of this post.

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So you see, all you've really proven with your message posting, is that you exhibit an extreme and prejudiced bias against George Bush,

You're right. I am prejudiced against GWB because he is a bumbling, idiotic, power hungry, egotistical, lying, fool. He's proven that with his actions since being in office.

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Third, since you acknowledge that Clinton did it also, does that make him a dictator also? Clinton averaged about nine non-judicial recess appointments per year

Clinton has used the recess appointment relatively sparingly; his average of nine per year is far lower than Reagan's 30 and Bush's 20.