The US Senate appears irrelevant (another recess appt today)

[katinmn]

The Senate, like the House, has been serving as a rubber stamp for Bush policies. If a few members disagree, they are ignored and they don't make a peep.

What's wrong with these wimps? They should be walking out in disgust. We need to replace ALL of them.

This was the third recess appointment this month. One can only guess what King George plans to do next. Oh right. We're invading Iran any day now.

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw119299_20050802.htm

Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Edelman

The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 9, 2005; 8:46 PM

WASHINGTON -- President Bush for the second time in a week used a constitutional power to bypass the Senate and fill a senior Pentagon post with an official whose nomination was stalled in the Senate.

The White House announced on Tuesday that Bush named Eric S. Edelman to be undersecretary of defense for policy, the chief policy adviser to the secretary of defense. Edelman replaces Douglas J. Feith, whose battles with Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., over the release of documents related to Iraq stalled Edelman's nomination.

Edelman is a career foreign service officer. He served as ambassador to Turkey from July 2003 to June 2005 and he was a national security assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney from February 2001 to June 2003.

Edelman's nomination to replace Feith was sent to the Senate on May 16.

-snip-

[firefox]

1. I agree- replace them all (without exception)n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Edelman. This is not good. Read this.

From TrouthOut.com
Dated Thursday June 23

Censorship
By Dahr Jamail

At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the other witnesses I'm being interviewed by many outlets. Today, one of them was by reporters for one of the larger newspapers in Turkey, the Yeni Safak Newspaper.

I'll leave the reporters nameless, for reasons you'll soon see.

The newspaper has been translating various articles of mine into Turkish and running them, particularly those concerning the most recent Fallujah massacre. The report who was interviewing me today told me that the former American consulate here, Eric Edelman, asked the Prime Minister of Turkey to pressure his paper to not run so many of my stories.

"Why did he do this," I asked him.

"Edelman said it was the wrong news," he told me with a smile.

Turns out Edelman also asked that articles by Robert Fisk and Naomi Klein not be run so often in Yeni Safak either.

Read more.

It's not a pretty story.

[katinmn]

3. He's a Dick Cheney aide. What can we expect other than

mass corruption, bribery, lies, threats - the whole shebang.

[Southsideirish]

4. Only because it IS irrelevant.

[wli]

5. in self-coups, the legislature is more typically dissolved

In this case, it's merely packed with neocon shills installed via election fraud.

[rfkrfk]

6. three Senators voted, in the Terri Schiavo matter

if you don't show up, you don't count much

[LittleClarkie]

7. Nothing new

and what do you expect the minority party to do? Exactly what do you expect them to do that's in the realm of possibility?

Clinton used this power, and every prez before him. They only get to keep their jobs for a limited amount of time. But of course there's always the chance they'll keep their job, but it's still, for now, a temp position.

[lildreamer316]

8. All hail King George.

Aaaargh.

[bvar22]

9. Recess appointments (except in National Emergency),

and Presidential Pardons need to be discontinued!

[unhappycamper]

10. None of these folks could stand public scrutiny.

The only way * could get these psychopaths appointed is through the back door. The takeover continues. . . . .