I think the best strategy would be to flood Fox with letters appealing to his sense of Constitutional decency.

I could be wrong, but what a slap in the face Bush just doled out to all of us.

One thing about this — by pulling a typical Bush, our sainted leader is saying that the Swift Boaters were his kind of people — and that he rewards loyalty, by making good on some promise made to Fox. Bush is saying that to lie, to commit character assassination, to do *anything* is fine; even torture and mass murder — ask the 600,000 Iraqis who died during the ‘liberation’ of their country, or the 60,000 who’ve died since. Because loyalty to the will of the sainted leader is more important than truth, or the rights of humanity, or anything else.

Impeach, and indict. Send these people to the Hague.

Fox’s un-American appointment is just as much a slap to the face of the Belgian people as Bolton’s recess appointment was a slap to the face of the United Nations and all the nations of the world.

Of course, lame-duck ambassador Fox probably won’t care how the Belgian people greet him, because his recess appointment is probably just “resume building” for some future role the Republicans, like Rove, have planned for him.

Which means he should be watched, well, er, um, like a fox.

Bunghole. Arrogant, spoiled, frat-boy.

The Senate can also deem these appointments illegal, since the vacancies did not “happen during the recess of the Senate”, but before it went into recess.

It does need to come up with a suitable, proportionate response to remind Mr. Cheney that, though he may frequently lift his leg to mark his territory, there’s a new hunter in the forest.

The President is only authorized to make recess appointments to fill “vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate”. None of these occured during the Senate’s recess, and arguably, the Senate was not in recess for the traditionally required ten days.

I regard these as patronage appointments essential to Mr. Bush’s retirement income. Somebody has to come up with those multi-million dollar speaking fees to hear someone who can’t speak.

More importantly, I regard them as a consequence of Mr. Cheney’s Iago-like whispering in Dubya’s ear while he was putting on his toy cowboy boots.

The Senate wasn’t rejecting an incompetent diplomat. It was controverting the holy writ of the unitary executive, which requires that the heretics be punished. It was also telling Dubya, so Mr. C would whisper, that he’s not really a man. Hence, these stick in the Senate’s eye appointments. Mr. C. must laugh at how easily he manipulates Shrub.

Fucking asshole. Seriously. This fucker’s on a runaway train just barreling towards impeachment. I think he’s just trying ot get away with as much as he can. What a scumbag.

Open letter to: Any diplomats in Belgium representing all other countries.
From: America

Please don’t invite Faux-Ambassador Fox to any of your parties or functions when he gets there.

Thank you.

Here’s a couple letter samples

Piet.Heirbaut@diplobel.fed.be

Mr Fox has been named US Ambassador to Belgium in a recess appointment when Congress was out of session. The Bush administration had already withdrawn his nomination when it had become apparent that he would face a difficult and possibly unsuccessful comfirmation process in the US Senate. It is insulting to many of the American people and no doubt insulting to the nation of Belgium that would be pushed through in this manner. Please request and read the transcripts of Mr Fox’s confirmation hearings before accepting him as our ambassador. I urge you to at least consider rejecting Mr Fox as an a representitive of the United States.

Dear People of Belgium,

We in the United States have been ashamed of many of the actions of our government in recent years. The recess appointment of Sam Fox to represent us in your lovely country is an insult to all of us. Please know that you have the support of many of us in roundly rejecting a man whose diplomatic skills are nil and who has a history of deviousness.

What’s so great about recess?