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Recess appointment
My first reaction to the possibility that President Bush would appoint John Bolton as ambassador to the UN during the congressional recess was, good! Let him do something so underhanded and unpresidential. Then people who are still in denial would be shocked out of their complacency and his polls would plummet. (And you know how painful that can be.)

But no, that’s wrong. First of all, nothing he does, even lying about going to war, penetrates the credulity of his loyalists. And second, Bush really believes in this guy. He truly wants an anti-UN ambassador, and that kind of blind commitment makes him even more invulnerable. We’re going to end up with Bolton no matter what the Democrats do (not that they should give in or quit trying to block the nomination, but let’s be realistic).

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