No time to play....
"Obama to name Berwick Medicare, Medicaid chief; Use of recess appointment riles the GOP" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | July 7, 2010
The recess appointment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services means Obama won’t have to subject his nominee to promised Republican grilling of Berwick in nomination hearings, because appointments made during official congressional breaks do not require a vote....
It also avoids a public fight over the new law before the midterm congressional elections....
Wouldn't they want that fight seeing as they are supposed to be talking up the plan we didn't want and don't like?
Especially since it would take the attention away from so many other things.
Berwick has indicated some sympathy for a single-payer health care system....
No kidding?
One of the good ones, right?
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Must be seeing as even Democrats are against him:
"Obama ally ‘troubled’ by recess appointment
WASHINGTON — John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, strongly defended the White House circumvention of the legislative branch in this instance....
What a real PoS he turned out to be, huh?
Also appointed were Philip E. Coyle III as associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp....
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