Somehow I doubt President Obama will pay attention and somehow I doubt that Obama would consider John Podhoretz a friend given his significant work with the Clintons, but he is right about his assertions that Obama reached way too far in making recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess.
Yes yes, I have read the opposite commentary that somehow this was acceptable because pro forma sessions are not really the Senate in session, but the point of gaveling in and out of pro forma session is exactly that...that the Senate is in session. Unfortunately this executive who has little actual executive experience also did not have the experience in working in our Nation's most deliberative body whose design was to be free of the impulse of sudden and violent passions. While that does not lend itself to making work quick, it does hopefully lend itself to making work thoughtful.
That would have been a lesson the President might have better learned during his time in the US Senate had his own ambition been less aggressive.
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