The practice of presidential appointments during Congressional recesses has gone on for more years than my memory can recall.

Historically, however, these appointments have occurred when the nominee has been given a bad time in the Congressional inquisition process without having a vote recorded and the position needed to be filled.

Also, these happen when the recess has been for longer than a week.

Now, it seems, that PRESBO has made such an appointment during the Independence Day recess, which is only a few days, for the first time in the records of the republic. Further, the appointee has such a radical record in writings and speeches that even many in the Democrat caucus were planning to quiz him extensively during the investigation period. He is reportedly a professor of law at Harvard University, long noted as a left wing institution, and has been quoted as being strongly in favor of rationing medical services.

Thus it appears that PRESBO is well aware that this appointment might not make it through the Senate and so, since he wants this type of person in charge, made the appointment. It has been reported in several media sources that word had come to the nominee to delay answering any of the questions sent to him by members of the Senate in preparation for the hearings.

It seems that this was a warning that he was going to pursue the recess appointment without further risk of the regular procedures.

All that after stacking his whole inside staff with individuals known for their radical and socialist ideals. The chief of staff is an insider from the Chicago political machine to whom the truth is a total stranger and decency an unknown.

Actually, PRESBO has done the states of Arizona and Kansas real favors by taking their elected governors onto his cabinet and thus allowing the lieutenant governors assume leadership.

In Arizona while governor, Janet Napol[ian]itano was well known to be a proponent of the “open border” policies pursued by Presidents Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and now by PRESBO. How much damage she has done and can do in the future is really beyond imagination.

The governor of Kansas did great damage to the state while in office by refusing to approve the construction of two or three coal-fired generating plants, the production from which was reported to be planned for export to other states, which would have brought rather large revenues into the State of Kansas.

The handling of the BP oil well leak in offshore Gulf appears to have been handled in a manner that would deliberately extend the time period of the flow. My opinion, as an engineer and retired oil producer, is that if properly conducted, the well could have been brought under control in a few days, or at the most weeks.

One wonders if the BP staff is that inexperienced or has been deliberately diverted to make matters worse. It must be remembered that reports have surfaced that BP executives were major contributors to the Obama campaign in 2008. Of course, it could be that they were doing so in hopes of avoiding the attacks that were forthcoming.

In short, we have seen for the past eighteen months corruption and dictatorial conduct on the part of the PRESBO Administration on a scale possibly not experienced in the history of our republic. The total ignoring of the Constitution by it and the Democrat-controlled Congress has lowered the vitality and strength of the nation to a level not seen in the past.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 and is filed under Columns.