USA Today: Bush "rubbing (Dems') faces with Bolton's bushy mustache"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

There's 'no clear winner' in Bolton fight

By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY Tue Aug 2, 7:17 AM ET



President Bush got what he wanted Monday, but not the way he wanted it. And Democrats received yet another reminder that they're out of power. There were losses on both sides in the matter of John Bolton's recess appointment as ambassador to the United Nations.

Senate Democrats twice blocked confirmation votes on Bolton, a nominee Bush fought hard for. Without control of the Senate or the White House, that was all Democrats could do. As soon as they left town for their summer break, Bush played a constitutional trump card used by presidents since George Washington: He gave Bolton the job anyway.

"He's rubbing their faces with Bolton's bushy mustache," said Jack Pitney, a congressional expert at Claremont McKenna College in California who once worked for Republicans on Capitol Hill.

True, Bolton is a temporary employee; he can hold the job for only about 18 months, until the current Congress adjourns. Though he goes to the United Nations with Bush's backing, he goes without Senate approval after a contentious five-month debate over his temperament, character and record. Bush has "shown Congress, and especially the Senate, that he's in charge," said Paul Light, a presidential appointments expert at New York University. "But the person he's appointed is going into office under a cloud. It's like hoping for Tiffany's and getting the Dollar Store."

[Inland]

1. Typical MSM, concentrating on who wins, not what's good for America

Maybe USA Today could find out what difference the appointment makes outside of some emphemeral political points.

[xchrom]

2. ''It's like hoping for Tiffany's and getting the Dollar Store."

lol -- bush is like getting the dollar{less} store.

there's no value in bushco at all.

that was a great line.

[Fritz67]

4. "going into office under a cloud"

Well, of course there's a cloud around him.

1. Bush picked him.

2. In a real democracy, Bush never would've been president in the first place.

3. John Bolton helped shove the War...er, Struggle in Iraq down everyone's throats.

4. John Bolton might have been involved with the treasonous outing of Valerie Plame

5. John Bolton is a disagreeable neocon asshole.

6. Nobody wanted him there. Not Congress, not the UN. Nobody but President Duhbya.

[okieinpain]

3. that's funny, because bush was suppose to have capital to spend

after 04 election. well it looks like cow chips now, he's got a majority in the senate yet he can't even get his boy confirmed. he has to do it the hard way, imho bush got his ass handed to him.

[Zorra]

5. Well.....Bu*h will be rubbing his face on "Bubba's" pubic hair

after the war crimes tribunal sends him to the lowest bowel of prison hell sometime between 2008 and 2012.