Of course, recess appointments are nothing new; they are specifically accounted for in Article II of the Constitution.

This was a huge "fuck you," though. Note that he did, right after congress recessed. And he's appointed someone who likely could not have gained congressional approval, and is extremely controversial. This authority was never intended to be used to repeatedly sidestep congressional authority, but that is exactly what they're doing. Bolton, like so many in this administration, is a sociopath. I shudder to think how much damage he can do in a relatively brief period. We are living under the tyranny of the weak.

"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or prostitute." ~ Rebecca West

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spoken earlier about the Florida recount man John Bolton.

Florida Recount 2000

BTW the above link to CBS website is excellent for IN DEPTH reading on the North Korean issue and history.

My diary on Nominee Bolton

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As a side note, and not entirely off-topic, I was glad to see MB make this reference to the so-called cold war:

Egged on by her friends at the CPD, the Pentagon in the early years of the Reagan Administration began producing an annual  document called "Soviet Military Power," a document riddled with factual errors, exaggerations and lies, making it barely more than raw propaganda to bolster the neocon idea that the Soviets had embarked on a huge armed forces build-up that could only be countered by a larger U.S. build-up.

There was never any real threat to the U.S. from the Soviet state, but it served as a convenient cover under which munitions manufacturers and sellers became extremely powerful and very rich.

Just look at Russian history from the early 19th century on. It's all about creating buffer areas to protect them from invasions.

But the fear on this side of the Atlantic, carefully nurtured by politicians and industrialists, created the climate in which inadequate people like Cheney, Bush, and Bolton could come into positions of prominence.

Fear, fear, all the time. The so-called war on terror is nothing new. It's just a repackaging and resale of something that's been going on for generations.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. -- Oscar Levant

It is very important to understand these connections to the Reagan era.  The neo-con dominance of the Bush administration, and terrorism in the Middle East, can only be understood as a continuation of the Reagan era.

We need to be reminded of these connections, continuities and echoes.  They will be a key to the strategies that can lead to the downfall of this Bush administration.  

"The end of all intelligent analysis is to clear the way for synthesis." H.G. Wells "It's not dark yet, but it's getting there." Bob Dylan

that even worries his handlers. It's that even when told to do something by the people he professes loyalty to, if he thinks they're wrong he'll disobey them too. Cheney I'm sure knows this; knows that Bolton is uncontrollable, that he's pathologically unable to perform any task at all he disagrees with. Cheney & Co I'm sure know that Bolton will eventually betray even them, even the presidency, if any conflict of opinion arises between what he's told to do and what he wants to do.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

and if so, what's stopping a recess of Roberts, or do they just know that's over-board

Fear is manufactured in this country.Make a fear and you make money.

despised by the people of the world, it is now time for Bolton to make the governments of the world hate the US.