Ending a five-month standoff over a controversial nomination, President Bush on Monday used a recess appointment to name John Bolton the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The move thwarts Senate Democrats who had blocked Bolton’s nomination in a dispute over documents and accusations that Bolton doesn’t have the temperament for the nation’s top U.N. post.
Hey look, the Republicans don’t have the power to make congress the total slave of the executive, but they certainly have the power to make themselves useless…and Bush is great with rolling right on over the indecisive or ambivalent.
Thank God we’ve at least still got a strong willed and independent Supreme Court. Just kidding, yo.
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