Posted on 06/21/2005 9:30:03 PM PDT by smoothsailing
A recess appointment: Get Bolton on board
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Republicans are floating the possibility of giving John Bolton a recess appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Raise the sails, mateys, raise the sails full.
Filibustering Democrats did just about everything imaginable to smear Mr. Bolton and scuttle his ship as it prepared to sail into Turtle Bay. Some tacks were dangerous -- such as demanding to see classified information that, knowing this crowd, surely would have been leaked. Others were silly -- such as saying Mr. Bolton wasn't very nice.
What's needed at the U.N., of course, is a fella who represents the best interests of the United States and takes no guff. Democrats are upset that Bolton won't sing "Kumbaya" with the One Worlders, the crowd only too happy to take American money then use it against America.
Valuable time was wasted in the three-month pillorying of a good man. That's why President Bush should, upon congressional recess next week, use the recess power vested in him by Article I, Section 2 (Paragraph 3) of the Constitution to get Bolton on the job until the 110th Congress convenes in January 2007.
This kind of recess appointment, by the way, is court-tested all the way back to the 1820s.
So do it, Mr. President. Put the Democrats (and Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio) in their place and put John Bolton in his.....
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I'm like the new kid at hopscotch.I'm still on the first square and you're finished and picking up your chalk!
And really, who needs the stinking UN anyway! I'm still willing to bet Bolton ends up there,though.He's W's guy,after all.
My money's on Bolton.
LOL, that's actually not a bad idea - - keep the scumbag out of mischief by putting him in charge of that silly, useless playpen.
I hope Frist calls for a vote every day,heck,twice a day until they recess.
Recess, hell, I think that Frist should order NO RECESS until Bolton is given an up or down vote. Don't give the dimocrats a chance to go back home to make themselves well with their constituents.
"A recess appointment? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. You are talking about whimpy Republicans right? Ha ha ha ha."
Bush will do it and that will be it. Then Bolton will be obstructed at the UN by the beaurocracy there. The UN doesn't know what it is in for.
I hope you are right, but I would not bet on it.
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