recess appointments

The Senate has gone mad

The U.S. Senate was in session for 11 seconds today.

Jim Webb formally gaveled the session open and closed. The pro forma procedure is a daily routine, designed to prevent the Senate from being in recess, and thereby preventing President Bush from making some recess appointments.

The problem is, those "recess appointments" would be unconstitutional, and nobody in a power position seems to have read the Constitution to find that out.

Below is a reprint of a column I wrote two years ago, when John Bolton was illegally named our Ambassador to the U.N. Back then, the wimps in the Senate failed to take action; now they're doing something completely stupid -- and the insanity must be brought to an end.

Spread the word to friends in other states, and let our Senators know the truth. It's quite possible that they are ignorant (remember, when Hillary Clinton ran for Senate in 2000, she had no idea that the "Bill 602P" e-mails, supposedly about a bill that would tax e-mail, were a fraud -- the numbering system doesn't work that way).

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And now for the column:  read more »

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