The law says that major appointments by the Executive Branch
have to be approved by the Senate. It
also provides that, if the Senate is on a recess and there is a job that needs
to be filled for urgent reasons, the President can make a recess
appointment. Faced with a Senate that
had refused to confirm three of his nominees to the NLRB, Obama waited until
the Senate took Christmas vacation and made the appointments. There was no emergency. The Senate and rest of Congress fumed, but
took no action. The matter eventually
ended up in court and a Federal Appeals Court ruled that the appointments were
illegal. The Chairman of the NLRB, backed
by Obama, announced that the members would not step down and that the NLRB
would continue to conduct business regardless of the court order.
COMMENTS:
There have been many subsequent decisions rendered by the
NLRB, which is now seen as a puppet of organized labor. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the
matter during the next term, but the fact that the NLRB is defying the prior
decision leaves everything the NLRB does open to legal challenge. Obviously, Congress has been effectively
cowed by Obama and we have a de facto dictatorship.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. If someone, somehow was successful in stopping ObamaCare
in its tracks, what would happen? (Ryan
~ Pico Rivera, CA)
A. A lot of that depends on how it was stopped: permanent,
temporary, court decision, funding cuts, reversed by Congressional action,
etc. I feel that, at this point, it is
still possible just to shut it down and walk away from it with layoffs and
office closures. But, if we go much
further where exchanges are already set up, for example and selling insurance,
that’s a horse of a different color. One
thing that needs to be foremost in everyone’s mind is that simply getting rid
of ObamaCare won’t cure the problem of escalating costs; we need a plan.
Q. What about that $34 million dollar facility they built in
Afghanistan that’s never been occupied and will be torn down before the troops
leave? (Eugenia ~ Salt Lake City, UT)
A. And, why wasn’t that money used to build a secure
facility at Benghazi? This gang of numbskulls is criminally liable
for those deaths there, as far as I am concerned.
Q. There’s a story going around that proof exists that the
Cubans were responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Can you fill me in and what’s your
opinion? (Barney ~ Ashland, OR)
A. It is very difficult for me to believe that, when
transporting Oswald, the cops and FBI allowed anyone like Rubio, who did not
belong there by any stretch of the imagination, to be there. I will go to my grave believing that portion
of the story was a setup. Why, I do not
know. But, there’s a former CIA agent
saying that Oswald had ties to Cuban operatives long before Kennedy was
assassinated and that the CIA deliberately did not relay that information to
the Warren Commission after-the-fact. So
far, however, no one is alleging that Castro or Cuba actually played a role in
the assassination.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic
answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past.
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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