Mitch McConnell: Time for GOP establishment to stand up to conservatives

Mitch McConnell: Time for GOP establishment to stand up to conservatives

By Matthew Boyle -Via Breitbart - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican up for re-election in 2014, told theWashington Examiner in an interview published Friday that he believes it is time for the GOP establishment to stop conservatives and Tea Partiers. McConnell argued it is “utter nonsense” for groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), which has endorsed his primary challenger businessman Matt Bevin, to argue that Republicans like him in Congress are not fighting hard enough to defeat Democrats. In the interview, McConnell focused on deriding Tea Partiers for … [Read more...]

Obama’s Recess Appointments are Constitutionally Invalid

Obama’s Recess Appointments are Constitutionally Invalid

Video is from The Federalist Society On January 4, 2012, President Barack Obama announced "recess appointments" of three members of the National Labor Relations Board and of Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. These appointments are controversial because the United States Senate was by its own rules not then in recess, but was conducting pro forma sessions every three days. Several appeals from NLRB decisions by panels that included recess appointees were filed, challenging their recess appointments as unconstitutional, and the Cordray appointment has been … [Read more...]