Sen Boxer: Protest * foolish decision to recess appoint John Bolton

[paineinthearse]

This woman has gonads!



Can't the Bush Administration ever admit they made a mistake?

On Monday, despite widespread opposition from Senators of both parties, as well as the American people, President Bush appointed John Bolton as UN Ambassador. By using the rarely utilized "recess appointment" while Congress is away over the month of August, the White House effectively thumbed its nose at the Senate, bypassing our Constitutional responsibility to "advise and consent" on such a nomination.

It's yet one more example -- as if we haven't seen enough already -- of the absolute arrogance of power displayed by this President and his Administration over and over again.

Enough is enough.

Protest President Bush's foolish decision to recess appoint John Bolton -- email and phone the White House today!

Despite his public pledge to run as a "uniter, not a divider," the President has never heeded his own call.

Over the past few months, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings to determine whether or not John Bolton was fit to serve as UN Ambassador. In addition to learning from Bolton's subordinates that he bullied analysts in an effort to contort intelligence to his own ends, the White House stonewalled our request for critical documents to shed light on his activities at the State Department.

As a result, the Foreign Relations Committee, controlled by the President's own party, failed to vote Bolton's nomination out with a favorable recommendation. And the Senate refused to confirm him as well, with both Republicans and Democrats working to stop this terrible nomination from going forward.

As if this weren't already enough, just this past week the State Department admitted that John Bolton did not tell the truth on a statement which he swore to the Senate was truthful -- an effort to hide the fact that Bolton himself had been questioned by the Inspector General about the false claim made by President Bush that Iraq tried to buy yellow cake uranium from Niger.

Lying to Congress shouldn't be a reason to promote someone -- it should be grounds for dismissal.

Hold President Bush accountable for his poor judgment in appointing John Bolton -- email and call the White House now!

Sending an individual as controversial as John Bolton to be our representative to the world will only undermine our efforts to win friends and allies at this critical time. Surely President Bush could have done better than John Bolton.

President Bush needs to know that the American people are watching. We will remember his continued effort to put politics ahead of the national interest -- to subvert the will of the American people and the Congress, including members of his own Republican Party.

Make no mistake, we will hold President Bush and his Republican Party accountable at the ballot box next November for their continued arrogance and poor judgment.

Make sure President Bush gets the message, loud and clear. Make your voice heard now!

In Friendship,



Barbara Boxer

Email the White House now! http://ga4.org/campaign/johnbolton/b85x6u4v5bdbw6?

P.S. After you've emailed President Bush, don't forget to call the White House switchboard at [phone] and further register your opposition to this foolish recess appointment of John Bolton.

[AJH032]

1. Boxer is a great senator

If only there were more like her...

[GetTheRightVote]

2. Anything for Senator Boxer, she is great !!

:kick:

[NMMNG]

3. Done

I was really cheesed when I saw a blip of the news and noticed that jagoff had been appointed!

[tiptoe]

4. NeoconNazis do not care about politics or democracy-- just Shovin' it down

our throats...

..Another bastardization of Nietzschean "Will to Power" (all the while covering for corporatist power and greed motivations).

Pray for strength, courage, wisdom, thoroughness and perseverance for Patrick Fitzgerald in his pursuit of constitutional justice for this vulgar, anti-Democracy, "frankenstein adminstration"...before Cheney "does his 'thing'" in Iran.

A "war" in Iraq based on a "pack of lies"**...by a group in power based on Election Fraud in 2004 and earlier.

Coup d'etat.

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"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Grover Norquist, on NPR 2001


“One of the steps for getting there is a permanent Republican government, in the sense of fifty-five Republican senators and a thirty-vote margin in the House and a Republican President for twenty years in a row. That’s when you can do to the left what the left did to us in the thirties and the forties.”

Grover Norquist, on how to accomplish the above

In Their Own WOrds: Quotations from the Neocons and others

...Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a degree of centralization of governmental functions. I oppose this--in some instances the fight is a rather desperate one. But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are ... a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid...
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way, Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 Chapter 13: "A new phase of political experience"

**Full video testimony of MP George Galloway taking Sen. Coleman (R-MN) to school over a pitiful Neocon attempt to drag Galloway's name into false scandal.


How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War by Michael Lind, April 10, 2003

[Tesla]

5. Done!!!

[OneForLuck]

6. done

[CrackpotAmerica]

7. This Was America

Not only did the President appoint Bolton during recess, he did it on the FIRST DAY of recess.

Please inform me if I am wrong; but is this not a flagrant abuse of power and an action which defies the ethical standard in which the executive power of making such appointments was intended for?

My main concern with this issue is that it hints to me that nothing can or will be done to reverse this movement to ravage our nation's civil rights and international policy. Let's face it, at this point our current administration is practicing nothing less than expansionism (I refer you to the Project for the New American Century.) Have these people forgotten the lessons learned of the past? Or worse, have we as citizens become so decedent that we are apathetic to our own future?

Frankly, as one person, I am sick of this administration's complete disregard for the rules of this nation. It is "Beer Putsch" actions like these that draw we fair citizens ever closer to forced compliance with total power. Remember, although the president has limited time, we are left with the Constitution, however tattered, that he has worked so hard to defile.

We, as citizens, had better start speaking up now as people like Barbara Boxer have, or we won't be able to very soon.

[jarnocan]

8. article and Bolton petitions

2 new Bolton petition and good article link 9:13 PM

<http://ga4.org/campaign/johnbolton/step1.tcl> Sen. B. Boxer's petition against Bolton appt. Guess this is the same one.

http://www.stopjohnbolton.com/ Another very good one with info on the case against Bolton, and you may add comments.

AWESOME article- Destroying America By DOUG THOMPSON
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artm...icle_7141.shtml

I believe having Bolton in the UN will bring US that much closer to bombing and attacking Iran.

[kimpossible]

9. Done the minute it hit my inbox

I vowed that I would support Sen. Boxer in any way possible, the day that she stood up to protest the Ohio election fraud. So I make sure that her emails are never the ones that get buried and lost in my inbox.