CFPB is going to be the biggest cluster*@k ever.  They are chomping at the bit to rip companies to shreds. The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wasted little time getting to work, using the agency’s new powers to start supervising payday lenders and other firms outside the conventional banking system. The bureau’s main goal will be ensuring that consumer loans, mortgages... 

BACKGROUNDER: In The Past, What Democrats Have Said About Obama’s Unprecedented Recess Appointment Today Obama’s Recess Appointment Would Break 20 Years Of Precedent And Contradict A Brief Issued By The Clinton Justice Department Which “Obama’s Own Deputy Solictor General Cited Last Year.” “ President Obama is under strong pressure from liberals to use his recess-appointment power... 

Article One, section Five of the Constitution states: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days… This presents a problem for President Obama, who claims to have just made a recess appointment when the Senate is not actually in recess. The Constitution says the Senate cannot recess for more than three days without... 

Republican leaders in the House and Senate are blasting President Obama’s move to recess appoint a key nominee as an “unprecedented power grab.” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the president “arrogantly circumvented the American people” in his effort to recess appoint a key nominee and argued the move ”fundamentally endangers” Congress’s... 

Dear Leader once again circumvents congressional checks and balances.  The Senate is NOT ON RECESS – they have been holding pro forma sessions every few days and are considered to still be in session.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner have both released statements that mildly show their disapproval of this, but sadly, no one is going to stop him. In a defiant... 

Rep. Ron Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would lower the federal government’s debt by canceling the roughly $1.6 trillion in debt held by the Federal Reserve. Paul has argued for the last few weeks that the idea represents a quick way to make the growing fiscal crisis more manageable. Under his bill, H.R. 2768, the $1.6 trillion that the Treasury owes to the Federal Reserve would... 

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,”... 

The first in a series of Congressional hearings into the so-called “gunwalker” scandal is set for Monday, June 13th. The title:”Obstruction of Justice: Does the Justice Department Have to Respond to a Lawfully Issued and Valid Congressional Subpoena?” ‘Gunwalker guns linked to helicopter shooting As CBS News reported on April 1, the House Oversight Committeesubpoenaed... 

RINO Republicans (like Newt Gingrich), Democrats, and the JournoList media have been demagoguing and spewing blatant falsehoods about Paul Ryan’s budget, which includes necessary entitlement reform.  In the weeks since Paul Ryan unveiled his budget plan, the aforementioned groups have worked tirelessly to forge a meme in the public psyche that Paul Ryan wants to kill Grandma, while simultaneously... 

U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010. That includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well as payments for Social Security, Medicare,Medicaid, and stimulus spending, among other things. But that’s more than...