So, c'mon, Dems… the clock is ticking and recess is about to begin.

[understandinglife]

Time to raise the roof and make a stink. Make this a weekend to remember -- and bury Bolton once and for all. This can actually happen.

<clip>

Happily, the clamor has already begun, with 36 Senate Dems, including all the leadership, signing Friday onto a letter calling on the President to forgo a recess appointment and "instead submit a new nomination to the Senate".

Next, the Dems need to storm the Sunday shows -- they've got to get their press secretaries on the phone and make themselves available so they can get their voices heard. And this wouldn't be a bad time for them to start blogging, too. After all, this is not a hard case to make: The man lied about a very significant issue in, as the letter to the president puts it, ‘a document so important that it requires a sworn affidavit.'" The American people will get it. This isn't about "temperament"; this is about helping cover-up a lie that played a big part in leading us into a disastrous war.

What's more, a number of Senate Republicans -- including Trent Lott and Pat Roberts -- have also come out against a recess appointment for Bolton, arguing that it would: a) be an insult to the Senate (which, as Lott reminds the president, is "a co-equal branch; he doesn't get to make his choices in a vacuum"); b) weaken both Bolton and the United States because, in the words of Roberts, "the international community would see the new ambassador as lacking bipartisan support."

From Things to Do On Vacation: Keep Bolton from Being Recess Appointed by Arianna Huffington on July 29, 2005

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/things-to-do-on-vacation_4882.html

This matters.

As noted yesterday, "Bolton’s office was responsible for the placement of the Niger uranium claims in the State Department’s December 2002 “fact sheet” on Iraq’s WMD program; claims that have since been exposed as baseless."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4220831

Please support my request to Skinner to call a 'rapid response' DU Activist Group effort to contact all 36 Senators and urge them to take the parliamentary option available to them and formally return Bolton's nomination to the White House.

Urge them to make a stink.

Urge them to gain momentum on an issue directly relevant to exposing and punishing all the traitorous actions of this administration.

Thank you.


Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us