Some Political Animals Are More Equal Than Others

 President Barack Obama is poised to make a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray as the director of the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to the Constitution, Executive Branch appointments must receive the advice and consent of the Senate, unless it in recess so the President can make a temporary recess appointment. In this case, the problem is that the Senate is technically still in session, albeit in a pro forma manner...

 In 1945, George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, an allegory about totalitarianism which famously posits “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal to others.” But the way the Obama Administration is governing, political animals between the beltways should brush up on progressive President Woodrow Wilson’s favorite novel Philip Dru Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow which makes dictator into a good word.

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