Current Events: John Bolton nomin---I mean appoinment

The sheer abuse of authority and utter disregard by this administration for any view that deviates so much as .0001% continues virtually unabated. The recess appointment of John Bolton to UN Ambassador, without Senate approval (much less a recommendation from the Foreign Relations Committee) is an outrage, an affront to those who hold the deliberative process as a cornerstone of democracy and resent the arrogance of those who are indifferent to the legitimate concerns of others.

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According to the New York Times, this "was the first time since the United Nations' founding in 1945 that the United States has filled that appointment using a backdoor procedure called a recess appointment." NYT 8-1-05. It would take a publication no more sophisticated that the "Weekly Reader" to point out that this particular act (amongst many) is not exactly congruous with the Administration's goal of democracy promotion abroad.

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W attempted to justify this by claiming that "[t]his post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about U.N. reform." If the post is so important, why did you nominate a guy who is patently an ideologue and who possesses some serious personality issues?

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At the rate things are going, W is going to make Warren Harding look like FDR.