Think back a short time. Republicans controlled the White House and the Social Democrats where widely known as “The Party of No.”

It’s August 2005 and Bush just made James Bolton the UN Ambassador during a Congressional recess:

“To some degree, he’s damaged goods,” said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I think that means we’ll have less credibility and, ironically, be less equipped to reform the United Nations in the way that it needs to be reformed.”

It’s April 2007 and Bush just made a recess appointment that made Sam Fox the Ambassador to Belgium. Fox was being blocked by Social Democrats because he gave $50,000 to support commercials against presidential candidate John Kerry. Senator Obama had this to say:

It’s disappointing that President Bush would defy the will of Congress by appointing Sam Fox Ambassador to Belgium. I opposed Mr. Fox’s nomination because I had serious concerns about his candor, judgment, and qualifications for this important post. Appointing nominees that are opposed by a majority in Congress simply because they are political cronies is old style politics at its worst. Our nation’s ambassadors should possess strong credibility and character so that they may effectively represent U.S. interests overseas, and I don’t think President Bush applied that test with this recess appointment.

Flash forward to today, when Obama makes 15 recess appointments, including a controversial labor lawyer:

Two appointes to the National Labor Relations Board, Becker, counsel to the Service Employees Union International, and Buffalo, N.Y. labor lawyer, Mark Peace, have drawn the ire of Republicans.

All 41 Senate Republicans signed a recent letter to the White House urging Obama not to use the Spring recess to appoint Becker, a former UCLA professor and a strong advocate for card check legislation which would make it easier for unions to organize. …

[Sen. John McCain] called Becker a “partisan nominee” and said his appointment was a “clear payback” to organized labor — an important Democratic Party constituency. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said putting Becker on the NLRB board meant “the business community should be on red alert for radical changes that could significantly impair the ability of America’s job creators to compete.”

Don’t forget that Becker didn’t even make it out of committee because two Democrats joined Republicans in opposing his nomination.

Why would Obama want to push through labor lawyer Mark Peace?

Labor unions spent a record $450 million to help elect Democrats to the White House and Congress in 2008. After failing to win their top legislative priority, the so-called card-check bill making it easier to organize, the labor movement is pushing to get Becker on the board.

I wonder why Obama doesn’t think this makes any if his appointees “damaged goods”?

According to the Red Rag NY Times, Obama’s appointments now put him “on par” with Bush who had also made 15 appointments by this point in his presidency.

How’s that “Change” thing working out for ya?

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