(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama today circumvented the Senate confirmation process by granting a recess appointment to Dr. Donald Berwick to be director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid.
Berwick, a professor at Harvard Medical School and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (a think tank), has expressed his disdain for free-market medicine and his “love” for Great Britain’s government-run health-care system, while advocating health-care rationing and using the health-care system to redistribute wealth.
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"In two terms, Bush made 171 recess appointments."
ReplyDelete"On August 1, 2005, Bush made a recess appointment of John Bolton, to serve as U.S. representative to the United Nations.[5] Bolton had also been the subject of a Senate filibuster"
Taken straight from Wikipedia.
Where was all the outrage then????
Please stop being hypocritical.
I am not a fan of Obama myself but all this bullcrap just detracts from our legitimate complaints.
None of Bush's appointments (that I can think of, and I may be wrong) were advocates of socialist agendas or openly denounced the United States as dysfuntional or condemned our country for being capitalist warmongers. None of Bush's friends were ever associated with terror groups or ever published any work denouncing this country. Obama, on the other hand, has a circle of friends that openly and happily denounce our country and our political/economic system. He attempts, at every turn, to place these types of people in positions of power. THAT'S the difference. And it IS a legitimate complaint.
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ReplyDeleterecess appointments by other presidents did not occur BEFORE any Senate hearings as did Obama's.
O realizes his radical choice will have to answer questions in a hearing that would further reveal his radical stance.