From the Fact Check Desk: Could McCain 'Fire' the SEC Chairman?*

If I were Mr. America community organizer, I´d nominate Reszko, Ayers, Rev. Wright or Barbra Streisand for commissioners. Those would be wonderful appointees.

Lately McCain seems to be slipping often. If he does this in the debates the story becomes his age.

McCain is a Republican Senator. As a Republican Senator, he approved Cox for the position because Cox agreed that, under no circumstance should Government regulate the securities industry. Cox did exactly what McCain and the other Republican Senators hired him to do. As a Senator, McCain ought to know that the President can't fire Cox. But hey, facts don't matter. Rules don't matter. Gut feelings matter and the consequences be damned!!! Just what we need in the White House, another stubborn, hot tempered ideologue.

Edward Henderson wrote (with corrections): "The people of California are using our oil and gasoline extracted from our Coast, the Gulf Coast."

You might want to do your homework. According to the 2006 statistics: 39% of California's crude oil comes from California; 16% comes from Alaska; and 45% is from out of the country (Saudi Arabia-13%; Ecuador-11%; Iraq-9%; Brazil-3%; Angola-2%; Mexico-2%; and the remaining 5% comes from Columbia, Oman, Venezuela and Argentina).

Sorry not a drop from the Gulf Coast.

If I were Palin, the one from the Palin-McCain ticket, I would fire McCain.

If I were McCain I would Palin home before it is too late.

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Head of State

Thursday, September 18, 2008

ABC News:

"At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for being "asleep at the switch" saying that if he were president, he would fire Chris Cox, the chairman of the SEC since 2005 and a former Republican congressman...
But while the president nominates and the Senate confirms the SEC chair, a commissioner of an independent regulatory commission cannot be removed by the president."

Perhaps he could name him President of Spain.

Given all the people she's managed to fire during her short tenure in public life, maybe Sarah's "firing" spirit is getting to him. If he is elected and does fire the head of the SEC, I hope he doesn't follow her example and fill the post with a high school classmate.

and by the way, California, you cannot even get your house in order. Quit acting like you are the cat's meow and get your own state's finances in order. You have no right to criticise anyone when you can't budget yourselves.

So Palin canceled visits to California. The people of California are using our oil and gaoline extrated from our Coast, the Gulf Coast. The people of California are too darn stupid to drill offshore their coast so that they could help our nation a bit from the foreign oil obtained from nations who are hostile to us and to whom we pay $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. California, wake up and smell the damn oil.

Chris Cox was appointed to do exactly what he has been doing, which is NOTHING! Bush, and McCain, were all about de-reg and part of that was gutting the regulatory bodies and neutering the oversight.

Now he's McCain's scapegoat, even though he was doing what he was hired for. Pretty disingenuous on McCain's part.

He's not bringing up Phil Gramm a lot these days, is he.

I personally would FIRE all of Washington and start over, and that includes Bush!

Though a president cannot fire any member of the SEC, in the sense of forcing a resignation from the Commission, he does have unquestioned authority to remove the chairman from his chairmanship and designate another existing member of the Commission to serve as the new chairman.

JohnTX wrote: "He's the Architect of the Iraq war that got 4,000 of our troops killed and cost us $1.5 trillion. He wrote the policy 3 years before 9/11 that called Iraq a terrorist state even though we now know Saddam hated religious extremists."

First of all, the current Battle of Iraq is a resumption of the 1991 Gulf War. After 12 years of attempting to diplomatically convince Saddam Hussein to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, President Bush rescinded the cease fire. Read the 2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq!

Now then, where in the world do you get the notion that terrorists have to be religious extremists? Saddam Hussein gave over $10 million to the families of the Palestinian suicide bombers (up to $25,000 per family).

Finally, actually WE NOW KNOW that between 1999 and 2002, Saddam Hussein trained over 8,000 "radical Islamic terrorists" in several terrorist training camps within Iraq.

Iraq WAS a terrorist state!

I would agree with that except that these are fundraisers for both the national & state party and they will be without the star of the party right now vs say rallies.

With McCain relying heavily on the RNC for funding, I don't understand why the VP would cancel fundraiser appearances. That's what VPs are supposed to do, raise cash while the candidate is out campaigning.

I guess if Governor Palin can fire people all willy nilly, surely the POTUS can do so :)

Jake, you got played by the McCain campaign. I'm assuming you got this bit about McCain being "attacked" by the Obama campaign for saying he'd fire the SEC chief from Brian Rogers. Well, if you read Rogers's statement carefully, you'll note that he doesn't say McCain has been attacked by the Obama campaign; rather, he says the Obama campaign is "about to" attack McCain. In other words, as Talking Points Memo points out, the McCain campaign is preemptively attacking Obama for something he hasn't done.

Having political appointees as the head of agencies causes considerable issues. Independence is lost

Congress frequently calls agencies heads to complain that the agency is being unfair to business. The average citizen rarely gets the attention of Congress, but the big money people are on first name relationships.

Ryan C: "Palin just canceled her appearance at two big fundraisers in CA.

I wonder what's going on."

Is it moose-hunting-season?

Or maybe there's another unplanned expansion of her family? Who knows.

Ryan, easy. Republicans hate California. Except when they really need money. But otherwise they really hate California. Well, except when they need a celebrity President. Otherwise, they really hate California, except when they need food. Otherwise, they really hate California.

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, a maverick Republican from Maryland, endorsed Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president in an interview Wednesday with WYPR, Baltimore's National Public Radio station.

Wait, McCain is now the populist now right? Can you be a populist and a maverick at the same time?

Has the word 'maverick' just entirely lost its meaning at this point?

I swear, I'm just going to call everyone a maverick. You know George Bush is a maverick right? Oh and Bill Clinton was a maverick and Richard Nixon was a maverick and JFK was a maverick...