President Obama made 15 “recess appointments” today, breaking a logjam of appointments that has been part of the Republican Party’s “Just Say No” policy of governance. These 15 appointments have been – on average – held up for 214 days each by GOP lawmakers.
Seven of the roles these individuals are filling are in key economic areas – something that the GOP has reasonably assumed could be left waiting, since it has had no real importance to the country over the past year. Two of the roles filled today are in the Department of Homeland Security, something else the GOP has determined to be of little to no importance to the United States.
