Posted on 08/02/2005 3:29:05 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- President Bush again invoked a constitutional provision enabling him to bypass the Senate and install a nominee who had been blocked in the Senate. This time, he named Peter Flory to be an assistant secretary of defense.
The move Tuesday came a day after Bush used the same power to install John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The Constitution gives the president the authority to put an official on the job without waiting for Senate confirmation when Congress is in recess. The official then can serve until the end of the current Congress, which in this case is January 2007.
Flory was first nominated to the post on June 1, 2004, but the nomination was blocked by Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, . . .
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Seems Levin misunderestimated
It must feel really bad for the dems to get b!tch slap so hard and often by a guy they think is such a moron. Imagine how hopeless they would be if the MSM actually reported the real news instead of the dems twist. What a great time in history to be alive....
Go GW, show the Dems who is in charge.
LOL! This has to have them so ticked!
Ah, this brings a BIG smile to my face ;-)
I love your optimism.
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