President Obama Takes Republican Senator Mike Lee To The Woodshed Over His Threat To Obstruct

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President Obama Takes Republican Senator Mike Lee To The Woodshed Over His Threat To Obstruct
January 30, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.



Republican Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to bring America down. How do we know this? He said so during an appearance on Chris Matthews. In that interview, Lee said that he would bring America down if Democrats didn’t vote to force the American people to live under conservative rule via a Constitutional amendment. Now, Mike Lee is continuing his quest to destroy America by obstructing President Obama’s judicial and government agency nominees in the Senate. On Friday, Lee threatened to block all of President Obama’s nominees if he doesn’t remove Richard Cordray from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republicans think the President violated the Constitution by appointing Cordray during the recess.


Here is what Lee had to say:

“Given this President’s blatant and egregious disregard both for proper constitutional procedures and the Senate’s unquestioned role in such appointments, I find myself duty-bound to resist the consideration and approval of additional nominations until the President takes steps to remedy the situation. Regardless of the precise course I choose to pursue, the President certainly will not continue to enjoy my nearly complete cooperation, unless and until he rescinds his unconstitutional recess appointments.”

Lee is one of the most destructive Senators on Capitol Hill. He opposes child labor laws, food stamps, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, programs that help the poor, FDA, EPA, and just about the entire federal government. He thinks everything is unconstitutional, despite what the Supreme Court has ruled. But President Obama struck back at Lee today during his weekly address:

”Just two days ago, a senator from Utah promised to obstruct every single American I appoint to a judgeship or public service position – unless I fire the consumer watchdog I put in place to protect the American people from financial schemes or malpractice.

For the most part, it’s not that this senator thinks these nominees are unqualified. In fact, all of the judicial nominees being blocked have bipartisan support. And almost 90 percent have unanimous support from the Judiciary Committee.

Instead, one of his aides told reporters that the senator plans to, and I’m quoting here, “Delay and slow the process in order to get the President’s attention.”

Video @ link~

Lee certainly has President Obama’s attention now. This is exactly the kind of fight that the American people have wanted to see from the President and now he’s using the bully pulpit to take Republicans to the woodshed over their repeated temper tantrums that have placed the country in serious jeopardy. Some Republicans are already beginning to back off of their threat to obstruct and are leaving useless and chaotic Senators like Mike Lee to twist in the wind in front of the American people as the 2012 Election approaches. If Republicans are smart, they’ll begin cooperating with President Obama and will tell their colleagues to back off and start playing ball. If not, let’s hope President Obama continues to embarrass every Republican in public by telling the American people what they are trying to do to them.

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1. nice to see him use the bully pulpit

now how about some hardball, like he did with Menendez?

Is there some rule, that hardball tactics are only to be used against dems?

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/01/17/the-wonderful-world-of-judicial-confirmations/

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Menendez didn’t elaborate on his objections. But, according to published reports, he insisted it had nothing to do with the fact that Shwartz’s boyfriend, Jim Nobile, was a top deputy in the U.S. attorney’s office that investigated Menendez for alleged corruption shortly before the 2006 Senate election.

The investigation turned up nothing, and Menendez won the election. But the episode has become a constant topic in press coverage of the Shwartz nomination, which can’t be good news for the senator as he prepares to seek re-election in November.

Meanwhile, Obama turned up the heat by holding back on the nomination of Menendez’s chosen candidate for a District Court seat in New Jersey. That’s both a departure from presidential tradition and a rare instance of hardball by Obama, who hasn’t been able to exert any comparable leverage against Republican opponents of his judicial candidates — for example, former UC Berkeley law Professor Goodwin Liu, now a California Supreme Court justice after Republicans filibustered his federal appeals court nomination.

Whatever the reason, Menendez did an about-face. On Friday, he said he was dropping his objections after an “in-depth discussion” with Shwartz.

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2. Wow, I bet that stung..

All that did was get the prick MORE attention, and likely a ton more campaign cash...

Taking someone to the woodshed infers the meting out of pain...there was no such thing done here..

[bemildred]

4. It cannot hurt Obama to stand up for America.

And i cannot help Lee or the Pubbies, to threaten to bring it down.

[bemildred]

3. +1.

[bluedave]

5. you can't talk

to an idiot that's a fact.

[Grateful for Hope]

6. Love it!

[Kablooie]

7. Why are these selfish, petty children running our government?

They scream that they will throw the board into the air and ruin the game if you dont give them everything they want.

It's expected behavior from spoiled little children but is quite baffling when it comes from elected officials in our national government.

And now a whole political movement is founded on this mindset.

I wonder how long it will take them to grow up?

Obama needs to give them a nice, long time out until they realize they've been bad.