Posted on 04/04/2007 1:48:38 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush bypasses Senate to name ambassador
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago
President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.
Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election.
Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.
This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.
Bush also used his recess appointment authority to make Andrew Biggs deputy director of Social Security. The president's earlier nomination of Biggs, an outspoken advocate of partially privatizing the government's retirement program, was rejected by Senate Democrats in February.
Fox, a 77-year-old St. Louis businessman, gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat group. He is national chairman of the Jewish Republican Coalition and was dubbed a "ranger" by Bush's 2004 campaign for raising at least $200,000. He is founder and chairman of the Clayton, Mo.-based Harbour Group, which specializes in the takeover of manufacturing companies
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Most of the early posts are absolutely hilarious...but spot on. Great job W!
OH NOESSS!!!! The DUmmies have got me scared. Now they REALLY hate George Bush. Before they were kinda on the fence about him, but this really did it!!!
Apparently they think all ambassadors are chosen for purely qualification reasons, not how much they contribute to the President.
Good one, Mr. President!
Now, Mr. President, pull the trigger and PARDON Scooter.
sweeeeeeet.
I was watching Hannity and the ticker was so funny. It stated that Sen. Dodd was outraged at the recess appointment and that he “seriously” questioned the legality of the appointment.
LOL, love seeing the Dems lose it lmao.
I'd like to see John Bolton appointed to head the State Department, with instructions to completely dismantle it down to it's foundation.
Hopefully this is a sign that the new tone is over.
New tone?
ROTFLMAO!
Now come on, you have to admit there has been many more than one!
“This appears to me to be another poker hand...”
I don’t suppose this hand was a full house, seeing as the speaker has been off on the 2007 Pelosi “Enemy of the State” Foreign Policy Tour....................
my guess is it was a Royal Flush. Of John Kerry. LOLOLOL!
Oh, I miss Tonk tonight!!!
It was not a smear. It was well researched and factual. Kerry still hasn't figured out that if you talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. He lost his election bid, and did it to himself.
And Kerry sold out our country in the Paris Peace Talks with the North Vietnamese delegation, meeting them in secret in order to help them negotiate a cessation of B52 bombing in the North. At that point NIxon had us winning the war.
Good news bump.
Stop...at a whammy!
(buzzer)
"Hey, Jon Carry...why the long face?"
For the next two years, the term “lame duck” will be followed with “my @ss”.
That’ll teach ‘em to take 2 and a half week vacations for ‘spring break’
Poor Jon Carry, you know he was in Vietnam
Almost like sending the Nimitz
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