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Senate to Consider Bill Allowing Obama-Packing Scheme

Shortly, the U.S. Senate will consider legislation to take a number of key gun-related offices in the Department of Justice and remove them from the requirement of Senate confirmation. The legislation is sponsored by anti-gun zealot Charles Schumer (D-NY) and weak-kneed Republican Lamar Alexander (R-TN).

S. 679 would give Barack Obama the ability to fill major gun-related Department of Justice slots with anti-gun partisans, without the pesky inconvenience of having to comply with the Constitution's requirements for Senate confirmation.

Consider the following:

Barack Obama has not hesitated to load up his administration with anti-gun crazies like Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein (who thinks hunters should be sued in court because of the pain and suffering they inflict upon animals) and Andrew Traver (the nominee to head the ATF who never met a gun control proposal he didn't like).

If he has been willing to pack his administration with anti-gun extremists -- many of whom had to pass Senate confirmation -- imagine what kind of lunatics Obama could nominate if the Schumer-Alexander legislation exempted major positions from constitutional advise-and-consent requirements.

To take posts like the official who composes statistics for the Justice Department (the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics) and the person who represents the Justice Department before Congress (Assistant Attorney General, Legislative Affairs) and turn them into "Political hack" positions is unacceptable.

ACTION: Contact your Senators. Urge them to filibuster S. 679, the Schumer-Alexander bill to exempt Justice Department gun-related posts from the Constitution's advise-and-consent requirements. Click here to contact your Senators.

Chuckie Schumer (D NY) and Lamar Alexander (RINO TN) are both about the best examples of elected hypocracy there is, I would bet Obama is full aware of this little gem and Schumer being the First Class Brown Noser he is would be more than willing to take the heat for his jackass boss, This sort of bypass garbage needs to nipped NOW and the entire Congress be put on full notice we won;t stand for it. This sort of activity borders the line of treason IMHO

Not surprised at all...

Wouldn't this have to get through the House as well?

I believe it does... If it comes up for a vote in the Senate ,,It will be interesting to see where our two supposed gun freindly Senators put their support... My bet is they throw our asses under the bus without so much as a blink.. Webb doesn;t care cause he's leaving and Warner needs to keep his future job prospects open for after he gets the boot in 2014,..He has consistently sided with Obama without fail and this will not be any different,