Once, the ability of the president to appoint officials during acongressional recess was an important tool to keep governmentrunning while lawmakers made the slow journey on horseback to theirfar-flung districts.
Transportation is faster nowadays. But interim appointments arestill important, to keep partisan politics from jamming themachinery of government. Thus we support President Bush's installingJohn Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. Arguments thatBolton yelled at subordinates or challenged intelligence brought tohim held little water -- if being a gruff boss forestalls a careerin government, we'd have few public servants. It …
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