OK, we have had the “Bolton Recess Appointment” fire drill three times before that I know of (because I posted on it each time here, here and here). So what makes this time different? Nothing as far as I am willing to guess.

The White House signaled on Monday that President Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton, his embattled nominee for U.N. ambassador, to the post temporarily as hope faded for a Senate vote on the nomination.

Congressional aides said a recess appointment could be announced as early as Friday night, immediately after the Senate is scheduled to adjourn for the monthlong August break. A recess appointment would allow Bolton to take up the U.N. post but he would serve only until January 2007.

Needless to say I would be schocked and stunned if it did not happen a fourth time. I think they need to stop raising this specter over and over and just appoint the man. No one cares anymore.