Congress whines about Obama for show then backs down instead of protecting the American people and country

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Recent example was 4 illegal 'recess' appointments made by Obama when congress was not in recess. They whined but did nothing about it.

1/14/12, "Freedom fading in U.S. as Obama disses Constitution," Washington Examiner Editorial

"At the root of the spending and regulatory explosion under Obama -- and the resulting decline in U.S. economic freedom -- is his obvious disdain for the Constitution's limits on executive branch power. The most recent manifestation of that disdain was Obama's illegal "recess" appointments of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Finance Protection Board and three new members of the National Labor Relations Board. The Constitution says the president can only make such appointments when Congress is in recess;

• the Senate undeniably was not in recess when these appointments were made.

Members of Congress whined about Obama's illegal appointments and darkly hinted at legal action, but did nothing concrete to nullify them. What there hasn't been is anything like a demonstration of resolve in Congress to stand up to Obama and force his compliance with the Constitution. There is only one way to do that on appointments and that is to

• withdraw funding for any action taken by

the appointees in question. Otherwise, Cordray and the NLRB trio will serve as Obama intends and a terrible precedent will have been established. Either Congress shows backbone on this issue, or there will be far more serious constitutional deprivations by a president who "can't wait" to do what he wants." (last two paragraphs)

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