White House source: John Bolton will take a recess appointment...

The WaPo is reporting that an administration source confirms Bush will make a recess appointment for John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador.

"He'll take the recess" appointment, said the administration source, who is familiar with Bolton's thinking. "The president has made his selection, and the president is asking the Senate to confirm the selection, and if the Senate refuses to do that, then most assuredly [Bush] will make a recess appointment."

The president is constitutionally empowered to fill vacancies when the Senate is in recess, and the appointments are effective through the final adjournment of the sitting Congress. The White House took no action during last week's Fourth of July break. The next recess, scheduled to last a month, starts July 30.

And what will the Democrats say? Probably nothing as their currently too busy chasing down this bogus Karl Rove story.

Bush wins again. And when the appointment runs out, the next Congress will likely be missing a couple of Red-State Democrats who'll have felt the backlash of this filibuster horseshit.

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