Our lame duck president will make an end run around congress this week and appoint Bolton as the US ambassador to the UN. Under the Constitution, the president may issue an appointment and bypass Senate confirmation when it is in recess. Such an appointment ends when the next session of Congress begins — January 2007, in this case.

NeoCon blogs are giddy with excitement about this appointment, but it’s just another example of how irresponsible the Bush administration has been. Bush continues to embarrass the US in the face of the rest of the world by appointing a brute to represent us in the United Nations. Bolton is the epitome of the NeoCon’s: overly aggressive, rude, and impulsive.

There is one other trait Bolton shares with the Republican Whores of the Bush administration. Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have determined that Bolton was lying when he wrote on a questionnaire for his confirmation hearing that he has not been interviewed in any recent investigations. MSNBC reported July 21 that Bolton was among State Department undersecretaries who “gave testimony” about a classified memo that has become an important piece of evidence in the leak investigation.

He’s a liar. That surley shoots him to the top of the pile.