Ranting to /dev/null: Yes!

August 01, 2005

Yes!

Bush has used his constitutional authority to recess appoint Bolton as the next US representative at the UN. It's about time.

Now if he'd only scrap this whole Senate filibuster mess and start recess appointing the judicial candidates the Dems are blocking, we could really get this show on the road.

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Posted by ryan at August 1, 2005 10:52 AM | TrackBack

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Boo-yah! Now maybe we can get some work done in the UN now...

Posted by: Nathan at August 1, 2005 11:10 AM

Maybe the outcome is good, but it does seem sort of an underhanded way to do it. It feels sort of scuzzy, like paying a garage five bucks to modify your car to pass the emissions test and then change it back ....
oh wait, never mind. SCREW THE SYSTEM!!

Posted by: Mello at August 1, 2005 08:23 PM

I think I'd feel the same way it wasn't within the presidential powers to do so... and if there wasn't an S*load of stalling going on over this guy's appointment.

Posted by: jCave at August 1, 2005 08:27 PM

Yeah, Mello, it isn't underhanded at all. Everyone's always known it's been an option. Reagan appointed over 200 people during Congressional recesses. Clinton appointed 140. Bush has already appointed 106. This is just the first time he's done it about a candidate anyone's cared about.

Posted by: ryan at August 2, 2005 12:48 AM

Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House. So when are things going to get better?

Posted by: Nat at August 2, 2005 04:49 PM

Nat, things will get better when the Democrats control the White House, Senate, and the House, of course!

Posted by: Counterpoint at August 2, 2005 05:01 PM

...which is shorthand for saying that they never will.

Posted by: ryan at August 2, 2005 05:04 PM

Yeah, but that's just as bad as shooting fireworks off on the 4th just because everyone else is doing it... oh wait, never mind.
Trying not to be a hyocrite makes my conversation rather dull.

Posted by: Mello at August 2, 2005 05:04 PM

Why do we vote again? Oh, that's right, we don't really get to vote anymore do we? So who is your lobbyist ? Representative government, of, by and for which corporation.

Posted by: Glen at August 5, 2005 11:51 PM

Ah, a Green party activist.

When you're ready to rejoin the real world, please feel free to let the rest of us know.

Posted by: ryan at August 6, 2005 07:11 AM