RECESS APPOINTMENTS ARE A LONGSTANDING PRESIDENTIAL PRACTICE............

American Presidents throughout our history have made apointments to positions of persons they have nominated, and are having difficulty getting confirmed.  They are allowed to make recess appointments bY Article 2, Section2, of the Constitution.  During recent decades Presidents,  Democrats and Republicans alike, have made dozens upon dozens of  Recess Appointments annually  President Obama has made fewer than most recent Presidents; so it is seems suspiciously apparent, the outcry of Congressional Republicans to President Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray, as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, is far more political, than principled.  The protest swirls around the Congress not being in recess, according to GOP members.  Bit Congress is not in session.  The majority of members are back in their home states, not in Washington; and yet those opposing Cordray's recess appointment, are claiming Congress is in, "Pro Forma Session"`, whereby every few days a single member stands in the dias of each chamber and Calls the Congress to Order, for a few moments - and then recesses again; a manuever to protect the members perks and privileges, such as per-diem allowances, while out of session.  Meanwhile the newly appointed Director Cordray set to work doing the job of consumer financial protection.  Politically, President Obama has called, if not trumped the R epublicans bluff, and the presidential and congressiobnal politics of 2012, are, Game on.  But to all of them I proclaim this reminder of responsibility :  Do Your Jobs On Behalf Of the American People You Represent and Serve.  Let the Politics of this Election Year be secondary motivations, and be Decided in proper order, in the Campaigns as they play out between now and November.  This is Governance, not Gotcha Time, so just Get to doing the Righteous and Reasonable Work you were Hired By Our Citizens To Carry Out............Fr.  Troy