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WASHINGTON - Anticipating President Bush soon will appoint John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a leading Democrat said Sunday that Bolton would go without the confidence of Congress.

"He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said Bush should think again before using a recess appointment to place Bolton at the United Nations while the Senate is on its traditional August break.

"That's not what you want to send up, a person who doesn't have the confidence of the Congress and so many people who've urged that he not be sent up to do that job," said Dodd, D-Conn., on "Fox News Sunday."

Which is, of course, what obstructionist politicians say when they realize that the roadblocks they've put in the way of opposition initiatives are going to be circumvented, if only in a temporary manner.

The truth of the matter is that a majority of Senators in Congress, put there by majority votes in each of their respective states, believe that President Bush's nomination for UN Ambassador (this would be the President who was also recently elected by a strong majority of the people) is an acceptable choice.

We could confirm that and get past this matter if political malcontents like Senator Dodd would cease the petulant partisanship and let the Senate get on with its job.