Olson: Bush can make recess appointment to replace Rehnquist

[quaoar]

Newsday has a story coming up that quotes Ted Olson, former solicitor general and Bush's lawyer during the recount coup d'etat in 2000, arguing that Bush can just make a recess appointment if Rehnquist steps down.

A recess appointment does not require Senate approval, although the Senate can reverse it later. But if the Senate remains Republican, that's not likely to happen.

[blackcat77]

1. That would haunt the Republicans for years to come.

Of course maybe Bush just won't care.

[aquart]

2. Dear George.

Dear Ted.

[librechik]

3. Prediction:Olson would be the recess appointment

Bush is despicable, Ted too!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. I predict Asscroft will be appointed to Rehnquist's seat

and Olson to A.G.

[BootinUp]

4. Are recess appointments time limited?

[Gabi Hayes]

5. they are, and I'm pretty sure that they don't have to be rescinded, BUT

they must be duly renominated, and subject to the INEVITABLE filibuster, as will the ones he sneaked through earlier

somebody will corroborate this soon, I'll bet

[Walt Starr]

6. If the appoinment is not passed by a Senate vote

the recess appointment would be in effect until January 6, 2006.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. that's what I read here before, but why is it not allowed only until the

very next session of congress convenes, instead of giving him an entire YEAR of these douchebags for "strict" construction

and how BOUT that Alan Keyes?

why is he not just scooped up with a butterfly net and put where he belongs?

[Walt Starr]

11. It's the constitution

and I quote:

Article II.

Section 2.

Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. well, doesn't it make it 2005? uhoh...that would make it for TWO YEARS

right?

if he does it after the lame duck session, following this election, during which they could have overturned the impeachment vote in congress, right?

so, if he waits til after they go home, he'd get two years, but if he does it during the lame duck session, it would only be til this January?

can you interp, please?

thx

and how aBOUT the good ambassador?

[Walt Starr]

15. If he appoints while the Senate is in recess during December

the appointment stays in effect until the end of the next session of the Senate.

The next seesion of the Senate begins on January 6, 2005. It ends with the beginning of the session after that. That session begins on January 6, 2006.

In fact, that's when all of Bush's recess appointments end as he only started in making them during this session of the Senate.

[RetroLounge]

7. I've always thought it was sad about his wife Barbara

and the fact that they didn't fly together.

RL

[Gabi Hayes]

9. very very nasty stuff.....LOLOLOLOLOL!

from Bartcop, lest we forget:

The O'Reilly Whore
November 8, 1999


Did you see The O'Reilly Factor Monday night?
Barbara Olson, right-wing, Scaife-funded, hatchet-bitch-whore
wrote a book on Hillary Clinton that's "fair and honest."

Who is Barbara Olson?

Barbara Olson was a spokesperson for Kenneth Starr.
(Do we need to say more?)

She served as lead counsel to a Congressional Committee probing
perhaps the biggest crime of the late twentieth century, "Travelgate".

She is married to Ted Olson who was the Attorney for David Hale
while Hale was taking Scarfe-bribes to testify in "Whitewater" probes.
Her husband is one of Starr's law partners.
Both Barb and Ted are close friends of Kenneth Starr.

Another dear friend of Barbara's is Mrs. Silberman, wife of Lawrence Silberman,
one of the 3 federal judges on the panel that appointed Kenneth Starr...

Shit, it all fits like a pair of Bruno Maglia shoes.

Yeah,

...I think this will be a unbiased look at Hillary, don't you?

Barbara Olson is Ann Coulter without the bulimia.
And do you know what this truthful book is called?

A Look At The Real Hillary
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Damn, it's about time we got an honest look at the REAL Hillary.
What could be more "fair and honest" than a Fox Whore Network Reporter
asking another Fox Whore Network Reporter, "Is Hillary an honest person?"

Holy Cheeses!

You can get less bias from a homeless boxing judge working for Don King.
Let me ask:

Can you make any money selling books to ditto-monkeys that say,
"Hillary is a smart, capable woman trying to make her country a better place?"

ha ha

O'Reilly wants to be Rush Limba so bad, when Pigboy burps, O'Reilly tastes it.
O'Reilly asks the Olson whore,
"Bill and Hillary are in love, right? They love each other deeply, right?
Their marriage isn't a power-sham, is it? We saw them hug each other once..."

Then the Olson whore says, "Those are FAKE HUGS!"

ha ha

I'm very certain O'Reilly and that Olson woman both have sex with horses.
You see, their love for their spouses is, "FAKE LOVE."
They save their REAL love for the horses locked in Paul Harvey's stable.


My, my...

The shit that passes for journalism on the Fox Whore Network.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Oh, that was bad

shame they hadn't reversed places that day. At least she was more pleasant to look at and a lot less dangerous.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. pleasant? she reminded me of Bugs Bunny with an acid stomach

that fake hair; WAY too long for her age....you KNOW Teddy boy made her dress up like Alice in Wonderland for god knows what kind of pervodemetia in which they indulged, most likely in a satanistic, bestial foursome with the lepterine Toensing/diGenova creatures

[Rowdyboy]

16. The press would be unbelieveably bad

I don't think Bush is brave enough to take the flak for a two year appointment.

The senate would be forced to change the rules on filibusters which would be VERY nasty. It would be unprecedented and an obvious power grab.