{"id":1121,"date":"2012-01-04T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:17:32","slug":"obama-to-recess-appoint-richard-cordray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/obama-to-recess-appoint-richard-cordray\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Recess Appoint Richard Cordray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House confirmed Wednesday morning that President Obama will announce a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at a speech in Ohio later today. Cordray was a well-liked Ohio Attorney General until last year, after he was toppled by the GOP midterm wave in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Cordray\u2019s an accidental victim of a brazen act of GOP obstruction. They\u2019re refusing to allow an up-or-down vote on any CFPB nominee until the agency itself is fundamentally weakened \u2014 an extra-legal attempt to nullify a key portion of an act of law.<\/p>\n<p>Obama actually missed his best opportunity to recess appoint his top consumer watchdog on Tuesday. But there are reasons Obama opted to take a more confrontational approach.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/01\/why-obama-could-recess-appoint-top-consumer-watchdog-anyhow.php\">Why Obama\u2019s Defying The GOP And Appointing Top Consumer Watchdog | TPMDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House confirmed Wednesday morning that President Obama will announce a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at a speech in Ohio later today. Cordray was a well-liked Ohio Attorney General until last year, after he was toppled by the GOP midterm wave in 2010. Cordray\u2019s an accidental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,22,20],"tags":[722,720,723,721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}