Did Bush make any such appointments?
Quite a few, although in his defense, the Dems blocked pretty much every appointment he tried, so he had little choice if he was going to have an adequately staffed government.
I have to say that I feel differently about Obama's appointments, because even though the GOP tries to block them, so many of them are manifestly seditious.
Every President does.
You have to scroll almost all the way down to the bottom to see the list of appointments, but the whole document is an interesting read.
Congressional Research Service
Recess Appointments Made By President George W. Bush,
January 20, 2001-October 31, 2008
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33310.pdf
Yes. All presidents do.
Yes. John Bolton was appointed in this manner.
I know others have replied to you, but GW Bush’s most important and crucial recess appointment was, in my opinion, John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN.
As I recall, we had been without a US ambassador to the UN for a significant period of time and when John Bolton took his place at the UN, there were, as I recall, 37 resolutions being considered that were significantly detrimental to the US. Had Pres. Bush not appointed the astute and courageous Bolton, I believe Kofi et. al. would have run wild.
EODGUY
“Did Bush make any such appointments?”
Start with John Bolton.
This is normal for Presidents. However, I would worry when they do it under cover of darkness or media blackout.
Yes, John Bolton to UN Ambassador post, a brilliant and necessary appointment, and likely a few others as well. Clinton used it to appoint a person some considered a race-imbued ideologue to, as I recall, the Civil Rights Commission, a man named Lee. However, this did not become a routine mode of governance until 2009
Don’t you recall the farce of Congress remaining in session by convening for only only a few seconds a day to prevent recess appointment?
“Did Bush make any such appointments?”
Remember John Bolton’s appointment as ambassador to the U.N.?
Granted the U.N. is not a serous post but still the congress technically regards it as serous enough to require confirmation by the senate.
Obama has a dem Senate...
Yes, mosty judicial appoitments because of Senator Leaky Leahy.