SNEAKY BUSH ---wow ?

In a move that should disgust all and surprise nobody, the White House announced today that George W. Bush will recess-appoint Sam Fox, who gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Liars to help finance their 2004 smear of John Kerry, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium. The nomination was withdrawn last week, when it became clear to Bush that Fox, who was instrumental in derailing Kerry's presidential bid, did not have enough votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be confirmed. A recess appointment allows a president to fill vacancies while the Congress is on a break, even if the nominee has already been expressly or implicitly rejected by the Senate. "It's sad but not surprising that this White House would abuse the power of the presidency to reward a donor over the objections of the Senate," said Kerry, in a statement. "This nomination was withdrawn because the Administration realized it would lose in the Foreign Relations Committee. Unfortunately, when this White House can't win the game, they just change the rules, and America loses." "Our country would be stronger if this Administration spent more time getting body armor for our soldiers in Iraq than it did helping their powerful friends."

Public Comments

1. just shows politicians protect their own
2. AIPAC want her soldier FOX hired -----i do not know why bush is bending to them all the time http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070405/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_outflanking_congress_12
3. Bush is such a freakin crook. This clown he is appointing is a butt boy for the GOP hacks and their liar buddies.
4. That is interesting. That is also how the Federal Reserve Act, managed to get passed. Very sneaky politics! waiting until a recess, to try to get anything through. *sm*
5. Fox is national chairman of the Jewish Republican Coalition and has given more than $1 million to Republican candidates and causes since the 1990s, according to Federal Election Commission records. He is so popular at the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney said in a recent speech, that he is known by a nickname: "Foxy."
6. PAYBACk.. they screamed at Dubya... this zionist moron granted his but in Belgium for the next two years.
7. My Belgian grandparents (3 of the 4 were from Belgium) are rolling in their graves..... Who clues this simpleton in to these "sneaky" maneuvers? I doubt he "thinks" of this stuff on his own. (But, then, we all knew he was just a puppet...)
8. Nothing unusual there, every President since WWII has done the same thing. That is how business is done inside the beltway, so don't hold that against him.
9. WOW this is not something bush invented..... this process is called "spoils system" invented around andrew jackson's time....go look it up. every presidents uses spolis system....it wouldn't make any sence to give an importan job to just some random individual who doesn't have any enimies in polictics.
10. President Bush is a retard. When history looks back at this period I think the results will be shocking. 1) Stolen 2000 presidential election 2) small and mid-sized American manufacturing firms who were expanding in the 90's are now getting squeezed 3) pre-9/11 intelligence was put on the back burner to disastrous results 3) 9/11 was used as an excuse to go into Iraq for business reasons when the problem didn't really lie there. Results: Iraq in chaos, many dead and crippled Americans, no retribution for 9/11 attacks. When the Japanese attacked us in World War II we did not retalliate against Australia 4) The oil companies have been raping consumers 5) Credit card companies have been raping consumers 6) How can you respond quickly to Hurricane Katrina when half of the National Guard is in Iraq and the head of FEMA used to run an Arabian horse breeding association? 7) Huge budget deficit exists where there was none 8) I have never seen so many political scandals in my life 9) remember that whole Dubai ports thing? 10) The international community thinks we are stupid. Did you see how grateful Syrian President Assad looked to get a visit from someone other than Bush or Rice? 11) Colin Powell, an imminently respectable man is treated like a fool, humiliated and drummed out of the White House to be replaced by Rice. 12) Thank god that Social Security proposal never went anywhere. Who does that benefit besides Merrill Lynch? 13) Remember when Enron caused an energy crisis in California and the government did nothing to stop it? It just goes on and on. You cannot run the government like a third-rate used car lot.