Not once, not twice, THRICE - in ONE DAY! This guy's gotta be stopped!

oferchrissake... i posted earlier today on bush's sneaky recess appointment of susan dudley to head the white house office of information and regulatory affairs who is committed to a pro-business agenda and has been opposed by many progressive groups... now, i see he's slipped through TWO MORE... what a guy...!

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.

the arrogance of this guy in thwarting the will of congress and the american people will go down in history as one of the darkest periods of u.s. history...

(thanks to markos...)

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"Neither snow nor rain not heat nor gloom of night stays" George Bush from giving us the finger

out-of-control president... dictator... monarch... despot... strongman... somehow none of these captures the nightmarish horror that the bush presidency has become... he's being attacked from all sides, but that won't stop him from running the country right into the ground... he and his criminal posse must be removed because this kind of shit just is not going to stop until that happens...

President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports.

"Bypassing a reluctant Senate, President Bush will use a recess appointment to name a conservative academic to the White House's top regulatory post," Henry Pulizzi writes for WSJ. "The move, expected to be announced today, will fill a position that has been vacant for more than a year, and could help the White House use the regulatory process to shape policy."

According to the paper, "Susan Dudley, the former head of regulatory studies at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, has generated opposition from environmentalists and liberal interest groups, who say she would carry out a pro-business agenda at the expense of public health and safety."

as i've said before, it's not as if we weren't warned, all the way back in october, even BEFORE the elections...

In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as "a cataclysmic fight to the death" over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is "going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation."

and, if that didn't make it clear, tony snow certainly did when he said this...

"He told all of us, 'Put on your track shoes. We're going to run to the finish,'" Snow said. "He's going to be aggressive on a lot of fronts. He's been calling all his Cabinet secretaries and telling them, 'You tell me administratively everything you can do between now and the end of the presidency. I want to see your to-do list and how you expect to do it.' We're going to try to be as ambitious and bold as we can possibly be."

the only thing i can see at this point is to bring an END to bush's presidency... of course, that's about all i have been able to see for several years now, but it's never been more critical than it is now...

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