Obama’s Radical Recess Appointments
The Daily Grind and GetLiberty.org reveal that Obama has made several recess appointments that couldn’t get passed through the regular advise and consent method.
- recess appointment of Mari del Carmen Aponte to be Ambassador to El Salvador - “Aponte’s appointment was mired in questions about her 1986-94 live-in relationship with a man who was proven to be in the Cuban Intelligence Service, and the subsequent memo that was discovered where the Cubans viewed Aponte as a prime target to become a spy for them.” The Cubans were trying to make El Salvador a communist foothold. “By subverting the process, and putting Aponte into the ambassadorship of the very country that her friends in the Cuban government attempted to take over without answering legitimate questions about her very loyalty to the U.S., sends a dire message to those who support America’s interests in Central America.”
- “Dr. Donald Berwick was plucked from the normal nomination process and given a free pass without confirmation to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which manages the nation’s senior health programs.
Berwick faced stiff opposition due to his long stated admiration for the British health care system, and was given a recess appointment to avoid scrutiny before the Democratic Party-controlled Senate was even able to hold a committee hearing on his nomination.”
- appointing SEIU and AFL-CIO lawyer, Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.
“Becker, who wrote that he didn’t believe that management should have any role in the union election process, now oversees those very elections. Becker has also refused to recuse himself from participating in cases as a judge that he was an advocate on in the past, including the SEIU, removing any sliver of objectivity from the process.”
Obama has succeeded in putting three radicals in positions of power while avoiding Congressional disfavor.
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