Bush Announces 20 Recess Appointments (Not just FTC appointments)

[Khephra]

snip.........

Bush also announced the following appointments:

--Paul Jones of Colorado to be a member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.

--Jonathan Dudas of Virginia, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

--Enrique Sosa of Florida, a member of the reform board (Amtrak).

--Richard Wagner of Florida, a member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board.

--Stephen Johnson of Maryland, deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

--Carin Barth of Texas, chief financial officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

--Gary Lee Visscher of Maryland, a member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

--Ricardo Hinojosa of Texas, chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission.

--Susan Johnson Grant of Virginia, chief financial officer at the Energy Department.

--James Kunder of Virginia, assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development in the bureau for Asia and the Near East.

--John Rood of Florida, ambassador to the Bahamas.

--Charles Graves Untermeyer of Texas, ambassador to Qatar.

--Aldona Wos of North Carolina, ambassador to Estonia.

--Scott Kevin Walker of Wisconsin, a member of the advisory board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.

--Roger Wallace and Jack Vaughn of Texas and Nadine Hogan of Florida, members of the board of directors of the Inter-American Foundation.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Recess-Appointments.html

[aquart]

1. How vile are they?

[NMDemDist2]

2. they must be pretty vile to have to do an end run to get them appointed nt

[Democat]

3. Bush is rewriting the rules and Kerry should make him pay!

When a Democrat is elected president, we should use every trick that Bush did and make them pay for their bullshit!

[Fenris]

4. Yeah, there's no name I trust more than "Richard Wagner"

[kikiek]

5. I thought he promised to not do that.. Or was that judges only?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120269,00.html Story just said he promised to not make recess appointments, but outside of judicial didn't count. I thought it was stupid to trust him irregardless.

[charlyvi]

6. Bush is playing BOY KING

Does this idiot realize how he's raping the system of checks and balances; oh, I forgot---Congress stopped being Congress three years ago. He's just saving some time.

[eyesroll]

7. Scott Kevin Walker?

Would this be the Scott K. Walker who is the Milwaukee County Executive? (Massive repuke in a non-partisan election -- he came in after the previous exec was recalled due to horribly bungled pension changes.)

Hm...why, yes it is.
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1209&wit_id=3489

He seems to have the support of all of the Dems from the WI delegation (including Feingold), so I have no idea why this was a recess appointment. (He's nauseating, but the position seems to be a logical fit, independent of ideology.) Maybe just a timing/delay issue?

[tlcandie]

8. Prepping for the "REALLY BIG SHOW"?

Getting all of their ducks in a row? Interesting...and nauseating!

[Khephra]

9. Well, they serve until the end of 2005

so even if Kerry wins, they'll still be in postion.

[Liberal_Dog]

10. I Remember Conservatives Used To Hate Recess Appointments

Of course that was during the Clinton Years. Now, they don't seem to have a problem with it.

[doctorbombeigh]

11. Good. It's another sign of panic <snicker> n/t