How to deal with political hitmen

During the 2004 presidential elections, some dubya hitmen ran a very well financed smear campaign against John Kerry. This process, now known as "swiftboating", spread blatant lies about Kerry, and called him a traitor to the United States, despite the truth that he put his life on the line for this country as a loyal soldier.

As a reward for financing a successful lie campaign, dubya wanted to appoint Sam Fox, the smear financier, as ambassador to Belgium. Since Fox's only credential for being a US Ambassador was the fact that he was so loyal to Bush that he's willing to spend his own money to shout that true patriots are traitors, Congress did not confirm Fox. It is Constitutional law that the US Congress must confirm US Ambassadors. Since Fox could not be approved Constitutionally, Bush simply declared that, despite a failed confirmation attempt, Fox should just be assigned to the ambassadorship.

Recall, that Bush has referred to the US Constitution, a document that he swore to uphold, as "that goddamned piece of paper". Once again, rule of law be damned, there's a crony that must be rewarded at the expense of the people of the United States.

www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/04/bush.ambassador.ap/index.html