Ron Paul on Cordray appointment: ‘The president is not a dictator or a king’

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17. I don't remember there being any outrage when bush jr made 171 recess appointments

As of October 31, 2008, President Bush had made 171 recess appointments.
President William J. Clinton, in comparison, made a total of 139 recess appointments
during the course of his presidency. Of President Bush’s 171 recess appointments,
99 were to full-time positions, and the remaining 72 were to part-time positions.
Thirty were made during recesses between Congresses or between sessions of
Congress (intersession recess appointments). The remaining 141 were made during
recesses within sessions of Congress (intrasession recess appointments). The
duration of the 24 recesses during which President Bush made recess appointments
ranged from 10 to 47 days. The average (mean) duration of these recesses was 25
days, and the median duration was 26 days.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33310.pdf

Where was his outrage when bush jr appointed William Pryor to the appellate court during a ten day recess.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2004/2004-02-23-10.html

He is upset over a measly 28 appointments when the repubs have done this in the triple digits?
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/chart-day-presidential-recess-appointments

President Barack Obama used his authority to appoint former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wednesday without approval from the Senate, which was in recess. By doing so, Obama defied Senate Republicans who had sought to block any and all such recess appointments by holding "pro-forma" sessions for the sole purpose of obstructing the president's ability to fill executive branch and judicial vacancies.

Obama's decision to appoint Cordray to the CFBP anyway has provoked outrage from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who didn't complain much when President George W. Bush used recess appointments to install Senate rejects including Iraq war architect John Bolton as US Ambassador to the UN. Wednesday, McConnell characterized Obama's move as a power grab that “fundamentally endangers the Congress’s role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.”