A muscular recess

In the furor over Obama's "muscular" use of recess appointments to overcome Senate Republicans' (and Lincoln and Nelson, such a surprise) refusal to permit the administration to fulfill its hiring needs, most of the attention has been on his choice of a member of the Labor Relations Board. I mean, Republicans have a point when they object that the president might appoint someone with whose views he agrees. But often lost is the fact that most of the recess appointments were to vitally important economic posts and were blocked because of one senator's impatience with the policing of internet gambling.