FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

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. . . and keeps going around and coming around, and around, ad inf., and around, etc., world without end, etc., so forth, amen.

www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/chart-day-presidential-recess-appointments

"According to reports from the Congressional Research Service, during their time in office President Ronald Reagan made 240 recess appointments, President George H. W. Bush made 77 recess appointments, President Bill Clinton made 140 recess appointments, and George W. Bush made 171. Obama's first term has seen a paltry 28."

 

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Oh, so it wasn't the same for every president? Interesting ...

 

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Yes, because you haven't beaten that one into the ground.

Obsessive: "Where nobody is out of place" (You'd be amazed how many people told me about that).

 

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It would be nice if the most-boorish poster would have a few politcal thoughts. It would make the flame wars entertaining.

 

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The moddys need a button to suspend rogue posters from individual threads as needed.

 

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"Joust?"

 

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Sorry. Just quibbling with the romance, courtly decorum and courageous honor implied by "joust."

"Monkeyhouse" is more on the nose here.

Monkeyhouse.

 

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Come on. There's so much difference across these timeframes/circumstances as to make any numerical comparison meaningless. For example, given these new Senate schemes, President Obama hardly ever encountered a Senate in recess. By default his number would be lower.

 

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I'd like to see the Executive Order stats posted, because people on the Internet tell me Obama has used that power more than Bush or Clinton did in eight years.

 

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I took the use of the word joust as an attempt to have some fun with the language, which is actually a good thing.

Also, monkeyhouse doesn't work. You'd be using a noun in the place of a verb.

Before somebody whines about me going off topic again, I will point out that Moddy's last post was the ninth in a row by somebody other than me that had nothing to do with politics.

 

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You'd have to be on topic to go off.