This also leaves the door open to more good news posts like this one. Via Roll Call:

After showing last week that President Barack Obama is not afraid to defy GOP filibusters of his nominees, the White House is leaving the door open to more recess appointments — some of which could continue to help him showcase his campaign theme that he is the remedy to Capitol Hill’s gridlock.

When President Obama used his presidential powers to finally make Richard Cordray the official head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and then to appoint three National Labor Relations Board members, many of us stood up and cheered. All that GOP obstruction, all the blocks, all the filibusters finally drove him to act on his own, which was exactly what was necessary in order to overcome the spiteful, destructive Republican brick walls.

Obama could still choose to tap a number of stalled nominees in his effort to position himself as the champion of the middle class and consumers — the same theme struck in last week’s appointments.

As Roll Call reports, there are still– count ‘em– 181 nominations pending in the Senate, and many of those have been for at least six months.

Other recess appointment possibilities could help win favor with another important constituency — Hispanic voters. Those include Adam Namm to be ambassador to Ecuador and Roberta Jacobson to be assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere. Senate Republicans filibustered the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador last month. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is holding up Namm’s and Jacobson’s appointments.

And don’t get me started on judicial nominees.