Bolton Hears The Recess Bell

Drudge has this piece from Yahoo! News, hinting that John Bolton will be given a recess appointment by the Bush administration.

Congressional aides said a recess appointment could be announced as early as Friday night, immediately after the Senate is scheduled to adjourn for the monthlong August break. A recess appointment would allow Bolton to take up the U.N. post but he would serve only until January 2007.

The nomination of the blunt-spoken conservative has been held up by accusations he tried to manipulate intelligence and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views in his post as the top U.S. diplomat for arms control.

Those allegations don't really add up to much, whether Voinovich weeps on the senate floor or not. It is just more obstructionism from the left, which seems to fear the idea of making any significant changes at the U.N. Mystifying, I know.

In a strange turn, Dem's will not use Bolton's recess appointment as an excuse to broaden obstructionism to other confirmations.

Senate Democratic leaders have removed a possible hurdle by signaling that they would not use a recess appointment of Bolton to hold up Bush's nomination of John Roberts to the
U.S. Supreme Court.

"It's unlikely that one would be used against the other," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

This would seem to imply one of three courses of action. Either Democratic Party leaders, weary of being considered the largest group of whiners ever assembled by the American people, will welcome the addition of Bolton. Or, they are looking for an easy way out from under the Bolton debacle and will pretend the whole thing never happened.

Thirdly, and far more likely, they will pretend that a recess appointment is an unprecedented step in American governmental history and accuse the Bush administration of making a mockery of democracy in order to pursue his theocratic-chimpy-McHaliburton agenda of world domination.

Unfortunately, until the Democratic Party gets it's marching orders from Dailykos, it is anybody's guess exactly which way it will go.

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