Bolton Will Probably Be Recess Appointment

• July 31, 2005

WASHINGTON – President Bush intends to announce next week that he is going around Congress to install embattled nominee John Bolton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, senior administration officials said Friday.
Bush has the power to fill vacancies without Senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers’ August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the president had not made the announcement and Congress wasn’t in recess yet, said Bush planned to exercise that authority before he leaves Washington on Tuesday for his ranch. The House recessed on Thursday and the Senate’s break was scheduled to begin later Friday. . . .
Also Friday, 35 Democratic senators and one independent, Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, sent a letter to Bush urging against a recess appointment. “Sending someone to the United Nations who has not been confirmed by the United States Senate and now who has admitted to not being truthful on a document so important that it requires a sworn affidavit is going to set our efforts back in many ways,” the letter said.

Well fine then. Why don’t we give Bolton a vote and either send him to the UN with America’s full backing or deny him appointment and begin the process over again with a new candidate?
Its not the Republicans who have been stalling the vote…
(via The Political Teen)

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He will go in as a weak, flawed Ambassador, yet accurately reflect the arrogance the Bush administration has shown the rest of the world.

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TCF, John Bolton will neither be weak nor flawed when he represents the US at that cesspool party otherwise known as the UN. The UN is due for a cleaning and Bolton can help get the ball rolling! A few heads as well!
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By an 11-11 tie vote, Bolton’s nomination was sent out of the Senate Comte. with an unprecedented vote of ‘no confidence’. Nevermind America, you can’t get the full-backing of Senate Republicans!

Bolton will not have the power to ‘kick ass’ at the UN, contrary to the laughable rhetoric of the Right. He will go in as a weak, flawed Ambassador, yet accurately reflect the arrogance the Bush administration has shown the rest of the world.
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Exactly! Put Bolton’s name on the floor and let it be voted on, then! A recess appointment is fine with me. Someone needs to kick ass in the un and I think Bolton is the man for the job. He should been confirmed already except for the bullshit obstuctionism of the dems.

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