Two Matchstick Burns

John Boehner called it an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab.”

Whatever.

President Obama was right to appoint Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau via a recess appointment, despite the bogus pro forma Senate sessions intended to thwart the President's constitutional authority. Laurence Tribe explains why.

The attempts to apply any sort of negative moral equivalency to the President's actions (oh my, they're an unconstitutional overreach, an expansion of the unitary Presidency) as compared to the Republican game of blocking the President's authority to appoint officials in order to effectively nullify legislation forming the agency by crippling it due to the absence of a director (a director, by the way, that everyone - even Republicans - believes is qualified), are just ridiculous.

Countering obstructionism isn't overreach. Countering obstructionism isn't partisanship. This isn't a failure of the President to bring people together.