So if we can make sure these markets function in a fair and transparent manner…

That’s a mighty big if, Rich. It’s also what the SEC was supposed to be doing when they were busy watching porn.

The question is, can Obama declare Congress to be in recess, or is that something Congress must do?

It’s legal, get over yourself. Bush did it and there was no outcry from the same phonies crying foul now. 

If ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest person on earth.

I think I struck a nerve?

I’m not sure that the SEC’s jurisdiction is broad enough to address these issues, Paulie.

Obama is delghted every chance he gets to shred the Consitution. Even the Senate Dems, 50 of them, agree that the Senate was not in recess. This will be decided in court, and wind up biting Obama in his Schumer.

Pretty sure the guy could be called interim if the appointment was made during session.

Bush didn’t do it while Congress was in session, including pro-forma session.

I think you hit your head.

Being in session for 30sec counts for ya. Keep fighting for a lost cause, lets see where it gets ya.

No president has ever done it. Stop lying.

Can the president declare the congress in recess? That’s a very good question,Can the congress declare the president not native born, don’t go there. Can Obama serve his prison sentence with his pals Tony Rezco, and Blago, maybe. Can Obama have the first presidental library located within a federal prison, definitly.

It’s a lost cause in the sense that a legal case can’t possibly reach conclusion before the next election, but you can be sure that the GOP nominee will use this as ammunition to prove how Obama regularly tramples the Constitution.

It worked for Harry Reid.

If he isn’t confirmed, he doesn’t have the powers of the Director, as per the law.

Obama should have tried to appoint Alex Trebek, who knows more than any contestant.

Or Chuck Barris, who has a CIA background.

Republicans will stop at nothing to continue to see American consumers get screwed by big businesses in this country!!

Republicans don’t work for their constituents, they work for corporations!!

Can Duke Chestnut get his cell moved away from Obama to the Aryan Brother’s part of the prison

Does Jonas P wear his pants on the ground?

Harry Reid re-implemented the process to deny Bush from making appointments as Obama just did, and Bush did not attempt any appointments while the Congress was in pro-forma session. 

You need to check the facts.  Your post is another example of someone “creaing their own facts.”

This just shows that you’re another clueless Republican

Well, that depends on the recess issue which apparently hasn’t been resolved.

I don’t care is he was appointed “legally” or not, my question is why was he appointed at all?  Obama says he wants a “smaller more efficient government” so why did he create an entirely new government agency to do what we already have two agencies are already allegedly doing.  The FTC and and Consumer Protection Agency are allegedly “looking out for the consumer” but Obama seems to think that another agency can do it even better.  Next thing up, Obama will appoint the “Department of Redundancy Department” to oversee the rest of the government.

Democrats don’t work for their constituents, they all think that the masses work for them.  

I was informed of this one time by Pelosi’s staffers, who stated to me, “She doesn’t have to answer you, you work for her.”

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

When did Bush (and please tell us which one) make a recess appointment when Congress was in session? When did any president do it? Even if he did, was it right?