Usually when someone goes behind your back and does something you expressly said not to, I would be pissed off. When it happens between the U.S. Senate and the President over an appointment to be the ambassador of Belgium, it might just be illegal as well.
Sam Fox lost out in the Senate confirmation process. Perhaps something with his massive fundraising efforts for the 'Swift Boats' group had something to do with it in addition to being a great friend to Republican coffers. When John Kerry grilled him over the highly personal issue, Mr. Fox was reduced to nothing. Now that the Senate is in recess, President Bush took the back door option and installed Sam as Ambassador anyways. However, the Democrats of 2007 are not taking this laying down.
More from The Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — Democrats called for an investigation Thursday into whether President Bush acted illegally in appointing Sam Fox ambassador to Belgium.
A day earlier, Bush named Republican fundraiser Fox to the post as a recess appointment _ a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed his nomination.
"We view the recess appointment of Mr. Fox as a clear abuse of the President's recess appointment power," three Democratic senators wrote in a letter to the Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing agency.
President Bush's abuses of power is nothing new. He has been left mostly unchecked by a Republican rubber-stamp Congress for six years. Now that the tables have turned and the Democratic party is in the majority the attitude is vastly different. This investigation is now added to the list of 'potential' crimes King George has committed. The only trick of course, is to prosecute him for those crimes.
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