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to stick it to the Dems in this fashion. Too good.

"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR

Awesome. I love Bush. These are days when everybody will run away from him, but I still love the guy. I hope in his last days he has a - what the hell, I'm ouuta and got nothing to lose attitude. I've noticed a few signs lately.

Somewhere in there is a lesson for Senator Married-The-Rich-Widow.

Oh yeah, I remember -- if you don't step on top of other people to advance your career, if you don't volunteer for the blue-water naval reserves to avoid actual combat when your draft # is coming up, if you don't claim to have been illegally in Cambodia once you DO find yourself in combat situations (interestingly under the presidency of Nixon although it was a month before he took office), if you don't award yourself bogus medals and purple hearts, successfully gaming the system to get yourself sent home after only 3 months, all the time declaring yourself a war hero, if you don't throw your ribbons over the fence in protest (only to have them mysteriously re-appear years later), if you don't go to Paris to meet with our nation's enemies while you still serve in the USNR, if you don't take a public forum to viciously slander American troops in front of the US Senate, if you don't go strutting around 'reporting for duty'......

then maybe, just MAYBE...you don't get dry prison-punked.

It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?

Does this mean I have to hear the phrase "end run around the constitution" for the next few weeks.

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Good for Bush. And you know what? The recess appointment sends the unambiguous signal, "this is my guy, I'm behind him." What more can a president do to endow an ambassador with the credibility he needs to do his job?

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

Normally I would be upset about a well healed contributor getting this kind of payback. Its really not what government should be about, and why state seems to be run by the product of consanguineous unions. In this case though, it feels sooooo good.
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I can't believe how many liberals thought it was a good idea for Kerry to use the political donation reports to identify someone he should screw over. I can't think of anything more terrifying than elected officials hosing citizens who donate "the wrong way."

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He needs to finish off his other ambassadorships while he's at it. Those guys get replaced every time there is a change in president's anyways.

And while he's at it, are there any more US attorney slots that haven't been filled.

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It looks as if Bush expressed the same sentiment to Kerry that Cheney once directed to Leaky Leahy in the Senate. Except Bush's version was truly inspired and brilliantly appropriate.

Would the Dem's cancel "spring break" and high-tail-it back to Washington, if President Bush suddenly decided to reduce the number of vacancies on the federal bench?

If that didn't rise to a level requiring an autonomic response from the Dem's, what about (48) vacancies on the Circuit Courts? Recess all of the pending nominations, and submit (21) new nominees to the Senate.

Not that it's practical, but I sure would like to have the video copy of the Dem's melt-down press conference following an announcement by the president that the vacancies on the Circuit Courts had been filled.

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“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” – Ronald Reagan

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I love it. When Bush did this with Bolton, we got the perfect guy in place. Fox isn't getting a position that will have much of a splash internationally, but you gotta love seeing the dems cry about this simply because the guy gave money to a group of veterans to help them tell their story. When our political system becomes such that a person can't get through the nomination process simply because he disagrees on unrelated politics and the other side wants retribution, then things are bad. The guy was up for Ambassador to Belgium for goodness sake! Its not like this is an all-important position!

without exception.

Bush realizes he can't play "nice" anymore. No matter what he does, the Dems in Congress will hate him and harrass him. So his attitude is f- it, I'll play just as hard. There's no reason for him to try to work with them anymore, no reason at all.

Bush can appoint anyone he wants. We reward service in America, what did the dems expect?

“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
-Ronald Reagan

while rome burns people celebrate the appointment of an ambassador to belgium. yippy... dems ahead in every presidential poll, outraised 8 to 5, and the senate odds for 08 looking horrible... nice to know people take comfort in the fact bush pushed through an ambassador

Looks like the Dems may just want to fight.

I hope the President gets the idea pretty quickly that they are going to attempt to criminalize EVERYTHING he does.
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While recess appointments may not be the normal method, they are hardly rare. Many presidents have used them, including, most recently, Bill Clinton - who used them 140 times (source: http://www.answers.com/topic/recess-appointment). I wish these pompous Senators would realize that the president is afforded such privileges. Precisely because they weren't confirmed in Congress, recess appointments can only serve for a limited time and must eventually come before the Senate. They are not "extra-constitutional".