Chimpy's latest recess appt - 5 days before Labor Day. No Shame.

[CatWoman]

Five days before Labor Day, President Bush has announced he will recess appoint Paul DeCamp — a corporate lawyer who represented Wal-Mart and built a career fighting against unions — as head of the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, which oversees “the nation’s wage and hour laws, including overtime laws, workplace discrimination laws, and child labor laws.” More at AFL-CIO Now.

http://thinkprogress.org/


Bush Makes Backdoor Appointment to Wage and Hour Office
President Bush this afternoon made another backdoor appointment to his administration. He used a recess appointment to install a lawyer who represented Wal-Mart with a long record of urging restrictions to the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA’s) overtime pay and other provisions to head up the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Paul DeCamp, who was grilled at an August Senate confirmation hearing, backed the Bush administration’s move to gut the FLSA’s overtime pay protections saying it presented:

a window of opportunity, particularly in light of the federal elections of 2002, for the business community to achieve positive results that can bring the FLSA into the 21st century.

He even warned that if the overtime laws were not changed, millions more workers could become eligible for overtime. Strangely enough, he also said that it would not be “in the interest” of the workers who might earn overtime eligibility.

It is time to bring the FLSA into line with current notions of public policy. If reform does not come, then the risk and expense of collective and class action litigation may compel employers to reclassify millions of workers as non-exempt , a change that is in the interest of neither the employees nor their employers.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/08/31/bush-makes-backdoor-appointment-to-wage-and-hour-office/

[LSparkle]

1. Apoplectic once again ...

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

:puke:

I'm going to bed now.

[jayctravis]

21. Why do we even have a Congress?

It's like a little kid. No you can't have a cookie. No you still can't have a cookie when I leave the room.

[MissWaverly]

2. vote out everyone who supports Bush with no oversight

He refuses to comply with the limits on his office placed there by the constitution.
All Bush enablers should go and that includes Joe, Gotta Go, Lieberman.

[Solly Mack]

3. Happy. Happy Joy. Joy.

Another fox for the henhouse

[zanne]

4. I wonder how much damage he'll be able to do in two years.

It'll take years for the Dems to straighten out the mess these idiots have made. (Which is why we need real liberals in office)!

[Hubert Flottz]

5. And Bush has two more years to screw this country!

[opihimoimoi]

6. Woe onto us for having a Crook in the White House...

60% want his ass outta there....

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Just one more disaster after another!

They have torn the guts out of our country. And 40% still don't suspect!

EDIT... we need to kick this up to the front page! I already voted it up!

[opihimoimoi]

12. K&R

:kick:

[sipsake]

23. Frightening, isn't it?

One of the reasons it is vitally important to retake the House this fall.

[SutaUvaca]

7. Have they no shame at all???

Appointing a guy to run Wage and Hour who clearly is against the worker who earns hourly wages.
and fundie's think we have a man of god at the helm.
Jeezuz Freakin Keereist!

[jazzjunkysue]

9. If the dem senators and congress don't make a huge issue if this

we're all in shit's crick.

[frebrd]

10. K&R The bastard is evil incarnate! eom

[MaineDem]

11. At least it's only til the end of the year

How much damage can be done in that time?

This is enough to make my head explode for sure.

[mikelgb]

13. I honestly think they do this for the sheer laugh value.

not like the appoitntees actually do anything

edit to add: and reaffirm to themselves and those who watch in horror that they can get away with anything.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Wait till they take away your overtime pay...

and then tell me about it!

[Ioo]

15. I think this puts him in office for like 4 months... waste of time?

His recess appointment lasts until the new congress, Jan

[onenote]

16. nope. it lasts until late 2007

It doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, but the way the recess appointment clause has been intepreted is that a recess appointment made during a recess that occurs between sessions of Congress is only good until the end of the next session. But an appointment made "intrasession" is good not only through the end of that session, but also the next session. So this appointment will last until the end of the 1st Session of the 110th Congress, which will be late in the year in 2007.

Here's an explanation: http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RS21308.pdf#search='recess%20appointment%20expires'

[sipsake]

24. Say it isn't so!

I hope someone in the Democratic party is taking notes. It would be nice to be able to use this kind of (loophole?) to sidestep the Republicans in a couple of years.

[brook]

17. As I read the OP...

my wifi dropped. My blood pressure didn't. I'll refrain from enumerating the vast array of obscene fates and plagues that I hope will one day rain down on the SonOfBabs.

It matters not how long the appointee serves. What matters is that we are in the hands of this lying, thieving psyhcopath and his cabal. They are choking the life out of all this country was meant to be.

[NC_Nurse]

18. Bend over and grab your ankles!

It's another great decision by the decider!

[jackstraw45]

19. Thanks again, idiot Bush voters

Cringe every time I see one of those pathetic "W" stickers on the road....

[tnlefty]

25. Makes me so angry that I can't see straight!

Not to mention the numbers of Union members that I come into contact with who voted for the son of a Bush. Disgusting!

[lonestarnot]

20. This fucker will stop at nothing when it benefits corp. merika and

damages the little working man/woman.

[Mr_Spock]

22. Hubris

Once again.

[CatholicEdHead]

26. Disgusting

over the top, but not out of character.