On Bolton

Not that one, or even that one. I refer to John Bolton, who was given a recess appointment by President Bush earlier today. Congressional Democrats are up in arms over this.

After all, they haven't had enough airtime denouncing Bolton and Bush to this point, even though he is capable, and has support of 60+ Senators to be confirmed had Democrats not essentially filibustered his nomination.

So, Bolton will head to the UN and hopefully crack a few heads around, thrash a few underlings mercilessly, and otherwise shake up a sclerotic and despotic bureaucratic entity known as the UN, which is best known for sitting on its duff while genocide reigns supreme in Sudan, refuses to define terrorism unless Israel is specifically excluded, and nations with human rights violations galore get to decide human rights policies.

I wish him luck.

He may wish that he didn't take the job, considering that it's going to be a Herculean task to clean out the Augean stables that are the UN.

UPDATE:
Rovian Conspiracy has more, including a tally of recess appointments made by Bush's predecessors. BTW, who cares what Kofi Annan thinks or says. He's got absolutely no say in who the US selects as its representative in the UN, so asking Annan adds nothing, unless the media thinks it might catch Annan in a gotcha moment.

And for the record, a recess appointment is a Constitutional right of Presidents to appoint individuals to offices. Regardless of whether you think it is a loophole or not, the President is well within his rights and powers to nominate whoever he wants to positions when the Senate is in recess.

It's unfortunate that Democratic party Senators refuse to accept this simple fact. They'd much rather entertain demogogery than the facts. Sen. Durbin, whose outlandish comments have been well documented in the blogosphere, again lays claim to some of the more outlandish comments.

"The President has taken the decision as to who will be U.N. Ambassador out of the Senate's hands,"

The President has not taken the power out of the Senate's hands, but simply exercising his Constitutional rights (get out your pocket copy of the Constitution Dick and read up).