President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General, Ed Meese, has said Barack Obama’s non-recess “recess appointments” have pushed the nation dangerously “close to a constitutional crisis.”
Appearing on Neil Cavuto’s program on the Fox Business channel, Meese said the appointments of Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and three pro-union members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were historically unprecedented and violated constitutional order. He noted that since the House did not give consent for the Senate to go on recess for more than three days, nor did the Senate go into recess, there was no recess; thus, the president could not legally make a recess appointment.
The interview quickly touched upon impeachment. Cavuto asked Meese if these actions “get to the level of a serious crime or misdemeanor?” Meese replied:
Whether it’s an impeachable offense — or I think more particularly whether Congress would impeach, whether the House would impeach –- I think there may be some reticence on that. That’s an extreme, last resort measure…I think it should play in the next election process.
Meese concluded, “Whether you go to that point or not really depends on what the House decides to do.”
He said all Americans must ponder on’ question: “If the president is willing to violate the Constitution now, when he has an election upcoming, think what he would do if he was in his second term with no election ahead. To what extent he would literally shred the Constitution during that period of time.”
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IF THIS SOB IS WRONG IN THE RECESS APPOINTMENT…………………….THEN GET ON IT AND GET RID OF THIS LOUZY COMMIE/MARXIST/MAOIST,FASCIST,NAZI/TOTALITARIAN FEN DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
THIS MONSTER IS NOT TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION………………………THIS PIG IS CIRCUMVENTING IT………………..INTENTIONALLY AND WILL PROBABLY GET AWAY WITH IT, JUST WHAT THE HELL WILL STOP THIS SOB?????
GEEZUS………..CAVUTO…………..YOU DIDN’T THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS FREAK WOULD DO, IF IT GETS FOUR MORE!!!! YOU CAN KISS YOUR PROGRAM AND HAVE ONLY STATE TV!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT, CHRIST I’M 73 AND THAT’S ALL I HAVE HAD IN MIND!!!! LOOK AT WHAT THAT FREAK HAS DONE SO FAR!!!! ONCE IT’S IN FOR FOUR MORE, THAT WILL BE THE END OF FREE ELECTIONS OR ANY ELECTIONS, IF YOU THINK THIS FREAK IS GOING TO GIVE UP ALL THAT POWER AND GROUND WORK, YOUR CRAZY, IT WILL NEVER GIVE IT UP AND WE WILL HAVE THAT POS AROUND OUR NECKS FOR THE NEXT 20-25 YEARS!!! OR UNLESS SOMEBODY…………………….., OUR COUNTRY IS GONE, OUR COUNTRY HAS FINALLY BEEN………………….FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED BY THIS TOTALITARIAN BEAST!!!!!!
Actually, I’m 73, too, and have been focusing on the Obama matter for more than the last three years.
The refusal of American officials to inquire into highly questionable issues of Obama’s eligibility, citizenship, criminal conduct and true allegiance shows them up as being utterly corrupt and degenerate. They are like the Chinese Emperor of the mid-19th century, knowing nothing of the alien forces arrayed against him, their status and positions, and determined to remain invincibly ignorant. They are insane.
We are on the verge of losing our Republic to a subversive because of the insane cowardice of our officials..
Meese like the other RINOs is a benighted fool.
Congressional investigation of Obama himself, impeachment if the facts warrant, as they surely will, is nearly a year overdue.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The RINOs are complicit in Obama’s treason.
The suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud has to come into the courts and the non compliance by this uncredentialed person in the WH has to be forced to prove who he is and where he came from with valid consistent evidence to satisfy all complaints and allegations. There is no need to impeach first when the possibility of conspiracy to commit fraud and treason against the USA and it’s government has taken place and has been allegated with strong evidence since before the man took office. The use of rule of law is more in question because the courts refuse to let the law be used to solve the problems.
I think impeachment is required before the subject can be arrested and prosecuted.
Grand jury investigations and indictments and prosecutorial informations can be returned, which seems very much in order.
Once it is confirmed from Obama’s DNA and original birth certificate that he is not half-Negro, resistance to further investigation, including his citizenship, will fade.
But this current flap trivializes the grounds for impeachment! With all the overwhelming reasons for impeachment hearings, including the actual identification of Obama and resolution of his probable loss of American citizenship in becoming a naturalized citizen of Indonesia, why in the name of all that’s holy do people seize upon garbage like this to raise impeachment?
Hate to look a gift horse in the mouth. Glad for long overdue support for impeachment hearings from any quarter, for Obama is continuing to play the birthers and eligibility skeptics like a toreador plays the bull, but I wish people could think straight.
We’re on the brink of disaster and nobody will start an official investigation to find the relevant and material facts on Obama’s eligibility (including possible loss of his U.S. citizenship), the truly compelling grounds for impeachment, such as obstruction of justice in concealing evidence of his true birth parents and his Indonesian citizenship, fast @ furious and similar criminal activities, and Obama’s true allegiance that would prove a false oath of office, a fundamental ground for impeachment. Even if the facts show Obama to be technically eligible as a natural born citizen who retained U.S. citizenship to this day (which is possible) there are grounds for impeachment – far beyond procedural niceties – that should have been acted upon months ago.
Thank the RINOs for selling out the country. The People gave House RINOs the power to do their duty and conduct a thorough investigation, taking the fight to the head of the snake, and the RINOs refused.
Not that impeachment, though clearly called for, would be a walk in the park. Obama will claim the Congress is in revolt, declare an emergency, and try to rule by decree. Further proof that he is a
thinly veiled subversive Comintern mole, become increasingly bold due to the pusillanimous RINOs’ acquiescence in the House. But it is better to force his hand now, as he will only use any delay to consolidate his position, plan a rigged election farce, and fix upon the country a totalitarian dictatorship, his goal from the outset.
Let’s put the blame where it belongs… the Democratic National Committee.
According to Mr Tim Adams, it was the D.N.C. that vetted him. They are culpable for starting and perpetuating this fraud. They were so excited and anxious to get back their power they were willing to vet non-citizen Obama as eligible. But now, “the chickens are coming home to roost”
This fraud should anger all Americans regardless of party affiliation.
When the truth finally comes out, I would like to hold accountable those members of the DNC who so ‘carefully’ vetted him before nominating him for president.
They were so determined and hungry to regain power that they would accept anyone who might help them regain the White House. Never mind his background and goals.
The DNC must be held accountable!
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