Did Barack Obama ask Max Baucus not to hold hearings on Donald Berwick?

    As we all know by now, Barack Obama used a recess appointment to name Donald Berwick as his Medicaid czar. This man has stated in the past that any good healthcare reform legislation would have to include the redistribution of wealth. He was considered so radical that even Max Baucus refused to bring his name up for a confirmation hearing– at least that is why I thought that Max Baucus wouldn’t bring his name forward, there may be more to it than that.

   According to Orrin Hatch there is the possibility that the Obama regime actually pressured Max Baucus not to bring Donald Berwick to the floor for a vote because they knew he was too radical to be confirmed, while planning all along to appoint him after the senate adjourned.

CNSNews.com also asked Hatch, “Do you think there was any pressure from the administration on the Finance Committee, specifically [on] Chairman Baucus not to have a hearing?”
 
Hatch said, “Well, it sure looks like it. I mean, look, normally you hold hearings about something, about someone nominated for a position of that dimension, that importance, and you don’t just recess-appoint somebody without having hearings or without at least having the people in this country understand what he’s all about

    There is the very real possibility that Barack Obama nominated Donald  Berwick to this position knowing that there was no way he would be confirmed, and because the regime knew he wasn’t confirmable they applied pressure to Max Baucus to hold off confirmation hearings on this man  so that he could be appointed without  a hearing. This is a possibility that had never crossed my mind before, but I certainly wouldn’t put it passed Barack Obama to use such a nefarious plan to appoint people to his administration that otherwise would never receive the “advice and consent” of even a Democrat held senate.

  If this is true and Barack Obama did in fact have this little plan up his sleeve all along it shows us the depths that Barack Obama is willing to sink to in order to “fundamentally change” America. If this is true it shows an outright aversion for– if not disdain for– the constitution and the processes that are in place to keep a president from exerting too much power. And Max Baucus was perfectly willing to go along with this plan.

   If Orrin Hatch’s claim is true, we see a man who is unwilling to let anything– including the constitution– get in his way and stop him from implementing his radical agenda.

  In my opinion a strict reading of Article 2 Section 2 of the constitution gives the president the power to make recess appointments only if the position actually opens up while the congress is on recess, but this power has been abused by presidents on both sides of the aisle for many years to appoint people who were nominated before the recess, but whose hearings were not held before the recess.

  That alone seems unconstitutional to me, but for a president to hatch a plan where he convinces the senate not to hold a hearing on a nominee so that he can appoint him during the recess, well that just breaks all legitimate boundaries that have been set in the past.