President Obama was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore.
Nuance, subtlety and appeals to reason weren't cutting it. So when it came to trying to break gridlock on the confirmation of a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Obama did it the old fashioned way: He picked a fight.
He took an expansive view of what constitutes a congressional recess and appointed Richard Cordray to run the CFPB after Senate Republicans repeatedly thwarted his efforts to get Cordray confirmed. Unfortunately, Obama didn't channel former President Clinton and say, "it all comes down to what the definition of recess is."
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