Mark Levin: Our massive bureaucracy is 'doing whatever the hell it wants'

Mark Levin : Recess appointments are the surest way to destroy an incoming president from doing what he promised to do when he ran for office.

The Democrats are happy with that. Some liberal establishment Republicans , Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski and their ilk.

They kind of like this big, massive bureaucracy in Washington, DC , pushing around the American people, he says.

The president is deeply displeased that 70 key appointments touching virtually every area of the executive branch are being deliberately held up by Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd .

The Senate agreed to keep roughly 150 Trump 's picks for consideration next year carrying them over, but it refused to do so in roughly 100 others.

That means the White House will have to renominate them if Trump wants them installed.

Recess appointments since George Washington for 1000 , different reasons and in modern times having nothing to do with travel have been used throughout our history and by every single president except William Henry Harrison because he died a month after he was sworn in, has been used over 1000

/ 1000 times.

Franklin Roosevelt used the clause 89 times. Harry Truman 195 times, Dwight Eisenhower 193 times.

Ronald Reagan 243

243 times. George HW Bush 77 times. William Clinton 139 times..