One way of rebalancing the balance of powers is to kill those goddam recess appointments

and reducing the frequency of THIS...



i wish reid had put this in place BEFORE the last three were slipped through in april...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush's devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie "pro forma" session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he's the new sheriff in town.

i know hindsight is 20-20, but this should have been implemented immediately upon congress convening in january and at least attempted prior to that...

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