CNN: White House hints at recess appointment for Bolton

[Lannes]

Sorry but I dont have a link yet but you've got my word it was mentioned.

[eleny]

1. They just live to f up, don't they?

[Walt Starr]

2. DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!!!!!!

Bolton gets no immunity because he's the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and when he's indicted for treason i'll make eery last damn one of the Republicans look that much worse.

[enigmatic]

3. I hope they do it

It will cap the idiotic moves they've made in the last 6 months.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. If Bolton gets indicted or called as a witness

that would leave T-Rex sized egg on their face.

[montanacowboy]

5. How will they explain away the fact

he never told the committee he had been questioned by the Grand Jury in Plame?

[Lannes]

6. I wonder if UN members would stage some kind of protest?

[jojo54]

7. Let him do it...........

it's called political suicide.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

8. do they have to be assholes on every pfuffking thing? Why can't

they just back off once and concede that they made a mistake and that the country doesn't want john bolton. I am so sick of this arrogant shit. When will this end?

[Bucky]

9. After the recess ends, they still hold hearings

Only then they'll be asking Bolton about both his qualifications at the UN and about his involvement with the Rove leak after he's become the de facto UN ambassador. Imagine some of these questions about Plame being asked of Ambassador Bolton with the whole world watching. What a horrid embarrassment. I think they're banking on the Democrats being reluctant to make a sitting UN ambassador look bad after he's taken his seat.

[Lannes]

10. Reuters

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-07-25T204243Z_01_HO574479_RTRUKOC_0_BUSH-BOLTON.xml

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House signaled on Monday that President George W. Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton, his embattled nominee for U.N. ambassador, to the post temporarily as hope faded for a Senate vote on the nomination.

A recess appointment could be announced as early as Friday night, immediately after the Senate is scheduled to adjourn for the monthlong August recess, congressional aides said.

A number of senators have said they expected Bush to make a recess appointment which would allow Bolton to take up the U.N. post but he would serve only until January 2007.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to say whether Bolton would receive a recess appointment.

But when asked in general about possible recess appointments, McClellan said, "There are important priorities we're working to advance and it's important to have people in certain positions."

"If the Senate fails to act and move forward on those nominees, then sometimes there comes a point where the president has needed to fill that in a timely manner by recessing those nominees," McClellan added.