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Originally Posted by politicophile
Using a little-utilized presidential power, President Bush appointed John Bolton as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
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First of all I'd say that's a bit misleading (at least according to this article)
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President Bush: 106 recess appointments, including Bolton, mostly to minor posts.
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President Clinton: 140 recess appointments over two terms.
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The first President Bush made 77 recess appointments over one term, and President Reagan made 243 over two terms.
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I'd say by no means is it an under used balance that the president has.
In this, I'd say it's a smart move. If there isn't a U.N. Ambassador and we need one, why wouldn't the president appoint the person that he's been trying to support for the last year? It seem slike such a simple and obvious thing to do... You don't even have to have an 'evil genius' to tell you to do that.
Whether it's a smart move in the fact that he's a good person for the job, I couldn't tell you because I couldn't generally care less about the UN's ambassador, but it seems like a smart move politicaly for the president to make.
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