{"id":188795,"date":"2010-07-27T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/27\/wanker-of-the-day-15\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:47:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/27\/wanker-of-the-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/07\/dodd-no-recess-appointment-for-warren-who-still-may-not-be-confirmable.php\">Chris Dodd<\/a>, who is saying that Elizabeth Warren is not confirmable as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he is not running for reelection, I guess that he&#8217;s looking for a lobbying gig with the finance industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;She&#8217;s qualified, no question about that. The question is whether she&#8217;s confirmable,&#8221; Dodd added. &#8220;The issue is [if] you can&#8217;t confirm somebody, if you go six or seven months without someone in that job, you&#8217;ve got a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Progressives have been strongly pressuring the Obama administration to appoint Warren ever since the Wall Street reform bill passed in Congress. Some have argued that she be given a recess appointment if a minority of senators block her confirmation. Dodd objects to that idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that would be a huge mistake,&#8221; Dodd said, in response to a question from TPMDC. &#8220;Recess appointments. No, no, no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think those are, you know, Republicans used to do it, I think that&#8217;s a mistake,&#8221; Dodd added. &#8220;Except in the most extreme circumstances where you need someone because of an emergency pending, but as a routine matter, I think it&#8217;s a fundamental mistake.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go Cheney yourself Mr. Distinguished Gentleman from Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dodd, who is saying that Elizabeth Warren is not confirmable as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now that he is not running for reelection, I guess that he&#8217;s looking for a lobbying gig with the finance industry: &#8220;She&#8217;s qualified, no question about that. The question is whether she&#8217;s confirmable,&#8221; Dodd added. &#8220;The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,985,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-regulation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}