There’s a common and compelling logic to President Obama’s recess appointments today of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Board and of three appointees to the National Labor Relations Board. In the case of both boards, the appointments were necessary if the boards were to function at al—the very reason that Senate Republicans had made clear their determination to appoint nobody at all to the two boards.
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Prospect.org No More Mr. Nice Obama
Prospect.org No More Mr. Nice Obama
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
