Why did obama appoint 15 recess appointees that are damaged goods with no credibility?

He said this





Then-Senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is “damaged goods” and has “less credibility” than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005|||Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth. His appointments are another warning sign to business to wait out his administration in order to expand employment, he is unfriendly to business.|||Link/source please.|||Yeah, well...he's in charge now %26amp; he'd rather have his homies alongside....even ifthey are damaged goods.|||Because he could.|||Bush made 173 recess appointments.|||I think he has fully given up one his "Avoiding the politics as usual" When he realized having power is fun and his supporters will march behind him no matter what he does.|||The Republicans were holding up 77 of his appointees for no reason other than obstruction. At this point in his first term, Bush had 5 that were being held up, and even then he made 15 recess appointments. I think back in 2005 Obama had underestimated the extent that the Republicans would go to just to create obstacles to his success.





Despite facing record obstruction, Obama has until now refused to use his recess appointment power, to the chagrin of many of his own supporters. By invoking his power, Obama's signaling to Senate Republicans that they can't delay or block him from staffing up his administration and expect to get away with it.





As the White House was careful to remind, Obama's nominees have faced far more obstruction from the GOP minority than Bush's did from Senate Democrats.





"Most of the men and women whose appointments I am announcing today were approved by Senate committees months ago, yet still await a vote of the Senate," said Obama in a weekend statement. " At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months. I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government."





And on the official White House blog spokeswoman Jen Psaki noted, "[A]t this time in 2002, President Bush had only 5 nominees pending on the floor. By contrast, President Obama has 77 nominees currently pending on the floor, 58 of whom have been waiting for over two weeks and 44 of those have been waiting more than a month."|||Why not Bush had 170 recess appointments.|||You whiners are just hopping mad that Obama finally took the gloves off and is getting things done the way Bush did.


He tried being Civil - it didn't work. So he's doing the job America elected him to do ON HIS OWN!!!|||I wish you can provide a link so we can come to the same finding that President Bush appointed someone was a set of "damaged good". As for the 15 appointed by President Obama, most were hold up by Senators to make point that had no bearing on the appointees. Below is a short biography of one. There is no way he is damaged goods.





"Bersin was an all-Ivy star football player at Harvard. Then he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Then he went to Yale Law School. Then he was a U.S. Attorney in California. Then he was head of a Justice Department unit overseeing US-Mexico border affairs. Then the head of the San Diego school system. Then the Secretary of Education for California, under Arnold Schwarzenegger. Recently he has been an Assistant Secretary at DHS. Last month the past three commissioners of CBP, including two from the GW Bush administration, wrote to Republican Senators asking them, please, to get Bersin into the job rather than leaving this very important agency leaderless. "











http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive…|||the same reason he was against taxing health care policies.now it is law. he is a typical politician. no better, no worse.|||5 years ago, President Bush was not facing the obstructionism that President Obama now faces with the "party-before-country" GOP.|||its getting close nov 10 2010 a battle is on,,,obama did that to show power and all dc politicians are damaged goods... carry on my dear...baron chief minister of faith PNAC|||Ooooo...but now HE'S in charge! Dif game %26amp; POWER is what he wants.|||I always like to do a little research when someone cites quotes that are two words long and unsourced.





Obama was speaking of a single recess appointment, that of the diplomacy-hating diplomat John Bolton.





"To some degree, he's damaged goods," said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I think that means we'll have less credibility and, ironically, be less equipped to reform the United Nations in the way that it needs to be reformed."





From the Article:





Bush used a constitutional provision that allows presidents to make temporary appointments without Senate approval during a congressional recess, after Senate Democrats had refused to vote on Bolton's candidacy unless they received additional internal documents related to his tenure at the State Department.


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His confirmation was complicated by accusations by intelligence officials that he pressured them to distort espionage reports to suit his views and then tried to retaliate against them when they would not comply. He also faced accusations that he harassed subordinates.





Carl Ford Jr., a former Bush administration assistant secretary of state, testified to Congress that Bolton was "a serial abuser" and "a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy," an extraordinary public statement for a Republican political appointee to make about an official of his own party.


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Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, who opposed Bolton's confirmation, said, "I am truly concerned that a recess appointment will only add to John Bolton's baggage and his lack of credibility with the United Nations."|||Obama is shoring up the folks to push his agenda forward. It's all part of that Change thing he campaigned on only I don't think this what his his agenda is what voters had in mind.