"Recess post unlikely for Bolton"

[tex-wyo-dem]

It appears Bushco is more concerned with keeping the requested documentation secure than getting Bolton into the UN.

What are they hiding?



Recess post unlikely for Bolton

BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS
WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF

June 22, 2005

WASHINGTON -- At midday yesterday, it seemed that John Bolton's nomination to become United Nations ambassador was doomed in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the Associated Press there was nothing more he could do after the Senate failed to cut off debate on the nomination Monday.

At that point, speculation was intense here that President George W. Bush would flout the Senate by giving Bolton a temporary recess appointment that does not require confirmation.

An hour later, after lunching with Bush, an apparently embarrassed majority leader reversed himself, saying, "The president made it very clear that he expects an up or down vote." He said there was no talk at the lunch of a recess appointment.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbolt224314658jun22,0,3867921.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

[realFedUp]

1. Flip

flop.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Whoo hooo, I nailed this one on the HEAD

Check it out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1874103&mesg_id=1874103

[PATRICK]

3. Here's my nail

Yes he will make a recess appointment because he needs this slob for important cover work with a war even more illegal than the last one. A shoe pounder, a conscienceless intimidator able to make the vilest threats because that is the bar that is set for him and he's there, just like Ashcroft, to cover Bush butt. He will be the lightning rod, unbelievably, for the crimes the WH commits because they will be so busy dealing with HIS nonsense they won't get at the situation on the ground.

Name me one other goon more pleasant than this guy who will embody the plan. IF Bush gives up this he might be giving up on Iran, but it doesn't look it at all, according to a faraway, ignored and buried report by Scott Ritter. Yes he would like the Senate to take the heat and he will end up blaming them when does appoint Bolton anyway, with never a peek at those important documents.

This could be a crucial stooge appointment, not a circus mockery(though that too appeals to the mob squatting in the People's House). A parliamentary game means little in that consideration. Bush steams ahead and gets and spoils all he wants and this is weakness? The celebration is premature and Bushco might simply be expecting the usual big diversion to cover over the silent frog pounds in Foggy Bottom, recess time.

[merh]

5. You did call it!

:applause:

[tex-wyo-dem]

6. Yep, I think you did hit the nail on the head...

Frist appeared to pretty much give up on the Bolton vote...this was totally against the script and */Rove/Cheney, under no uncertain terms, let Frist know it.

Bolton is a very important piece to the war with Iran...his duty is to strong arm the UN into granting resolutions for war and to propogate supporting/cooked inteligence. The problem is the documentation the Dems are requesting is very, very damaging to the administration.

[PurityOfEssence]

4. Aw, come on Junior; you KNOW you want to...

Almost nothing that's seriously in the offing would make me happier than this; in fact, he's a candy-ass, lily-livered, sub-loser if he doesn't do it.

He's the big strutting tough-guy. That's the heart of his appeal. If he can't scorn reality and demand his way, then WHAT IS HE? All he has is this puffed-up, cocksure manliness that makes the spineless males of this country swoon with envious love; if he can't do something like this, what's he got going for him?

Aw, come on Junior, DO IT! You're entitled to do as you please, the '04 election is a license to crush. It's only fair; we SHOULD be represented at a body whose charter strives for something better by a hate-filled asshole bent on fucking everyone who gets in the way of subsidizing the mega-rich. Let's show our true face to the world. A selfish scorched-earther is the most honest face we can put forward for what we've become.

Now you need to nominate Starr or Bork to the Supreme Court; throw all decorum to the winds and make everyone suck your fungus riddled toes before you have some minion crush them beneath the jackboot of freedom. Don't stop now, you have something to prove. You need to prove it, you know you do.

Lest we forget, of course, those with something to prove REALLY have something to disprove. (I'm not a nobody, I'm not, I'm really not, I'm not.)

[AndyTiedye]

7. So Now The Rethugs go Nuclear to Push Him Through?

That is obviously what ** must have told catkiller to do.
No other way they're going to push him through.

They're gonna nuke us soon, the Supreme Court vacancy is coming up.

[DisassemblingHisLies]

8. He's misusing the "recess appointment" provision...

The constitution provided for recess appointments because, at the time it was written, the Senate was not in session for long periods, and the difficulty of travel made it hard to convene a special session.

The intention of the provision was clearly not for the purpose of bucking Congress. It's their job to keep the president in check, especially when there are no other checks & balances.