Free Republic

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...