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Bush's man Bolton gets UN job
01/08/2005 15:10 - (SA)
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| A February 2005 file picture of John Bolton, who is to be US ambassador to the United Nations. (Shizuo Kambayashi, AP) |
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Washington - Frustrated by Democrats, President George W Bush will circumvent the senate on Monday and install embattled nominee John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations, a senior administration official said.
Bush has the power to fill vacancies without senate approval while congress is in recess. Under the constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers' August break would last until the next session of congress, which begins in January 2007.
In advance of Bush's announcement, Democrats said Bolton would start his new job on the wrong foot in a recess appointment.
"He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility," senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, a senior Democrat on the senate foreign relations committee, said on Fox News on Sunday.
Bush, he said, should think again before using a recess appointment to place Bolton at the United Nations while the senate is on its traditional August break.
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