Officials: Bush Plans to Install Bolton

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Jul 30, 6:30 AM EDT

Officials: Bush Plans to Install Bolton

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By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- .

Bush intends to use a recess appointment to put the controversial conservative in the post before leaving Washington on Tuesday to spend August at his Texas ranch, said two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because Bush has not made the announcement.



Earlier Friday, though, White House press secretary Scott McClellan gave the strongest indication yet that Bush planned to make a recess appointment of Bolton, saying the vacancy needs to be filled before the U.N. General Assembly's annual meeting in mid-September. Former Sen. John Danforth left the post in January.


A recess appointment would risk annoying Democrats at a time when his nomination of John Roberts to serve on the Supreme Court is under Senate consideration. And it could hamper Bolton at the United Nations, sending him there as a short-timer without the Senate's backing.



Though the debate over Bolton had largely faded from the headlines, critics raised fresh concerns this week when it surfaced that Bolton had neglected to tell Congress that he had been interviewed in 2003 in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Thirty-five Democratic senators and one independent, Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, urged Bush against a recess appointment in a letter released Friday.

[FloridaPat]

1. The Democrats should immediately put him on trial for perjury.

That would be a good start. Then work on the filibuster for the supreme court lacky.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. the democratic party holds no federal office that would

give it the power to put anyone on trial for anything remotely related to perjury in this case.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Let him make that appointment

Democrats are on record opposing such an appointment. No doubt, it will take bolton no time to embarrass our country at the UN. Surely anything he does will not shame the white house. Harry Reid probably already has the press release ready.

bolton will be another embarrassment. Maybe he will be the ticket we need to push those approval ratings below 40%. You go w, make that appointment.

[RC]

4. With any recess appointments the presidents makes, does

disqualification because of criminal actions of the appointee matter? Can congress act to overrule? Not will they, CAN they?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. that's why dems put off Roberts confirmation until after recess.....

just for that reason ...if bush does make Bolton a recess appointment...Roberts will NOT get confirmed and dems WILL filibuster!


bush can you say FILIBUSTER ROBERTS?

[sam sarrha]

6. they put off conformation because the admin wouldn't give up files

the files are about Iran Contra.. and he was the bag man carrying the missiles to Iran and the millions to the East Germans for the Guns they traded for cocaine.. and what did they do with all the BILLIONs of Drug Money..??

there is nothing beg and shiny to account for hundred of billions in cocaine money.. except for the Fascist takeover of the United states..

[dbeach]

7. the godfather of neo-cons

was prof leo strauss.

Bolton can only be at UN til 2007..ONLY..so enough time for the elites to get a big fireworks display

neo-con chikenhawk traitor are synonyms

http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08022003


"My Alma Mater is a Moral Cesspool"
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies and the University of Chicago
By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law

"It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli "Neoconservative" Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq by manipulating the tragic events of September 11th in order to provide a pretext for doing so. Of course Iraq had nothing at all to do with September 11th or supporting Al-Qaeda . But that made no difference to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-cons in the Bush Jr. administration.

These pro-Israeli Neo-cons had been schooled in the Machiavellian/Nietzschean theories of Professor Leo Strauss, who taught political philosophy at the University of Chicago in their Department of Political Science. The best expose of Strauss's pernicious theories on law, politics, government, for elitism, and against democracy can be found in two scholarly books by the Canadian Professor Shadia B. Drury: The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (1988); Leo Strauss and the American Right (1999). I entered the University of Chicago in September of 1968 shortly after Strauss had retired. But I was trained in Chicago's Political Science Department by Strauss's foremost protege, co-author, and literary executor Joseph Cropsey. Based upon my personal experience as an alumnus of Chicago's Political Science Department (A.B., 1971, in Political Science), I concur completely with Professor Drury's devastating critique of Strauss. I also agree with her penetrating analysis of the degradation of the American political process by Chicago's Straussian cabal.

Just recently the University of Chicago officially celebrated its Bush Jr. Straussian cabal, highlighting Wolfowitz Ph.D. '72, Ahmad Chalabi, Ph.D. '69, Abram Shulsky, A.M. '68, Ph.D. '72, Zalmay Khalilzad, Ph.D. '79, together with faculty members Bellow, X '39 and Bloom, A.B. '49, A.M. '53, Ph.D. '55. According to the June 2003 University of Chicago Magazine, Bloom's book "helped popularize Straussian ideals of democracy." It is correct to assert that Bloom's rant helped to popularize Straussian "ideas," but they were blatantly anti-democratic, Machiavellian, Nietzschean, and elitist to begin with. Only the University of Chicago would have the unmitigated Orwellian gall to publicly claim that Strauss and Bloom cared one whit about democracy, let alone comprehended the "ideals of democracy."

Does anyone seriously believe that the Chicago/Strauss/Bloom product Wolfowitz cares one whit about democracy in Iraq? Or the Bush Jr. administration itself, after having stolen the 2000 presidential election from the American People in Florida and before the Republican-controlled U.S. Supreme Court, some of whom were Feddies? Do not send your children to the University of Chicago where they will grow up to become warmongers like Wolfowitz or totalitarians like Ashcroft! Chicago is an intellectual and moral cesspool. "

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of Foundations of World Order, Duke University Press, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, and Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, by Clarity Press. He can be reached at: [e-mail]

[strizi64]

8. would be a great example

for a democracy :sarcasm:

[Fluffdaddy]

9. Things are going to get real nasty............Real fast.