So, c'mon, Dems… the clock is ticking and recess is about to begin.

[understandinglife]

Time to raise the roof and make a stink. Make this a weekend to remember -- and bury Bolton once and for all. This can actually happen.

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Happily, the clamor has already begun, with 36 Senate Dems, including all the leadership, signing Friday onto a letter calling on the President to forgo a recess appointment and "instead submit a new nomination to the Senate".

Next, the Dems need to storm the Sunday shows -- they've got to get their press secretaries on the phone and make themselves available so they can get their voices heard. And this wouldn't be a bad time for them to start blogging, too. After all, this is not a hard case to make: The man lied about a very significant issue in, as the letter to the president puts it, ‘a document so important that it requires a sworn affidavit.'" The American people will get it. This isn't about "temperament"; this is about helping cover-up a lie that played a big part in leading us into a disastrous war.

What's more, a number of Senate Republicans -- including Trent Lott and Pat Roberts -- have also come out against a recess appointment for Bolton, arguing that it would: a) be an insult to the Senate (which, as Lott reminds the president, is "a co-equal branch; he doesn't get to make his choices in a vacuum"); b) weaken both Bolton and the United States because, in the words of Roberts, "the international community would see the new ambassador as lacking bipartisan support."

From Things to Do On Vacation: Keep Bolton from Being Recess Appointed by Arianna Huffington on July 29, 2005

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/things-to-do-on-vacation_4882.html

This matters.

As noted yesterday, "Bolton’s office was responsible for the placement of the Niger uranium claims in the State Department’s December 2002 “fact sheet” on Iraq’s WMD program; claims that have since been exposed as baseless."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4220831

Please support my request to Skinner to call a 'rapid response' DU Activist Group effort to contact all 36 Senators and urge them to take the parliamentary option available to them and formally return Bolton's nomination to the White House.

Urge them to make a stink.

Urge them to gain momentum on an issue directly relevant to exposing and punishing all the traitorous actions of this administration.

Thank you.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[kliljedahl]

1. Let * appoint him

Then when he's indicted for conspiracy, perjury & contempt of Congress the fecal material will certainly impact the rotary, air impelling device.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[ewagner]

2. Please explain:

"...parliamentary option available to them and formally return Bolton's nomination to the White House.

I'm not familiar with this>

[understandinglife]

4. Referenced here:

In a final gesture of opposition, Democratic senators indicated that they would use a parliamentary maneuver to formally send Mr. Bolton's name back to the White House once the Senate adjourns, rather than have it remain pending at the Senate.

From Bolton Not Truthful, 36 Senators Charge in Opposing Appointment

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN

July 30, 2005

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/politics/30bolton.html?ei=5094&en=9d594c0f61f6ec9e&hp=&ex=1122696000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

I was unaware of such an option until I read Mr Weisman's article.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

3. Howard Dean: Bush Must Not Use Recess Appointment for Bolton

"Failing to reveal his involvement in an ongoing State Department-CIA investigation in his Senate questionnaire, raises very serious questions about John Bolton's credibility. John Bolton and the Bush Administration must stop stonewalling and come clean about Bolton's role in these two investigations that have cast a dark cloud of corruption over the White House. To preserve any remaining confidence in the integrity of Bush's foreign policy team, Bush must not use a recess appointment to install Bolton at the United Nations."

http://dnc.org/a/2005/07/bolton_stonewal.php

This is not a minor issue.

This man must never be allowed to represent our Nation.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[wildflower]

5. Can't find info yet on this parliamentary option, but recommended n/t

[many a good man]

6. Can only recess-appoint pending nominations

This move would make it no longer pending, but force bush to re-nominate Bolton again.

I didn't think the minority had the power to do such a thing.

[understandinglife]

7. Dodd: Bolton lacks support for U.N. post

Dodd: Bolton lacks support for U.N. post

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL

July 31, 2005

WASHINGTON — Anticipating President Bush soon will appoint John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a leading Democrat said Sunday that Bolton would go without the confidence of Congress.

"He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said Bush should think again before using a recess appointment to place Bolton at the United Nations while the Senate is on its traditional August break.

"That's not what you want to send up, a person who doesn't have the confidence of the Congress and so many people who've urged that he not be sent up to do that job," said Dodd, D-Conn., on "Fox News Sunday."

More at the link:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8BMH9580.html

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

8. Reuters: UN nominee derided by Democrats as 'damaged goods'

UN nominee derided by Democrats as 'damaged goods'

by Adam Entous

July 31, 2005

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Senate Democrats on Sunday derided President Bush's embattled nominee for U.N. ambassador, John Bolton, as "damaged goods" and warned that his expected appointment without Senate confirmation cast doubt on U.S. credibility.

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"John Bolton is a person who, in his personal relationship with government employees, has been abominable, mean, unreasonable and bizarre," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said.

"His not producing the papers we have requested only underscores the importance of why we need those papers. There must be something he's trying to hide," Reid told BuzzFlash.com, a news and commentary Web site.

Link:

http://today.reuters.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=uri:2005-07-31T175109Z_01_N31479318_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-BUSH-BOLTON-DC.XML&pageNumber=1&summit=

Yes, and what he is trying to hide likely includes his role in outing Ms Plame and the item in Time Magazine today expands the likelihood of the issues underlying destroying Ms Plame's cover and the Brewster, Jennings cover might well have happened even if Ambassador Wilson had not published in the NY Times in July 2003:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4231374


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Just Me]

9. I'll respond to your call for unity and power.

My Senator's name was not on that letter. I just asked him to add his name.

Time to fight, together!!!! :patriot:

[understandinglife]

12. Thank you very much. "Together" is what it is going to take - persistently

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Vinca]

10. I hate to rain on the parade, but

nothing . . . and I mean nothing . . . will stop King George from appointing the maniac to the U.N. On a positive note, it's highly likely he'll embarrass the administration and make them regret it. (And, if there is a God, please let Fitzgerald find him guilty of a crime and frog march him out of there.)

[understandinglife]

11. This isn't a parade.

Thanks for your insights.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[oxbow]

13. This is a very worthy action for the DU corps to undertake.

I would be happy to stand alongside the 1000 or so other DU'ers in the corps and make this happen

[senseandsensibility]

14. hear, hear

and kick