DNC Responds to The President’s Recess Appointment of Sam Fox
Political Desk
April 04, 2007
Washington, DC – On the same day the Democratic National Committee issued a report chronicling the Bush Administration’s consistent pattern of putting partisanship ahead of good government, President Bush did it again. Today, the President put his political party ahead of the American people by using a recess appointment to install Republican political contributor Sam Fox as Ambassador to Belgium.
Fox contributed $50,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which was responsible for notoriously brutal and utterly false attack ads smearing Senator John Kerry and his Vietnam crewmates during the 2004 election. In response to Fox’s nomination, 11 of Kerry’s crewmates sent the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a letter saying that “those who finance smears and lies of combat veterans don't deserve to represent America on the world stage. [Associated Press, 3/28/07] President Bush withdrew Fox’s nomination last week when it became clear he would not survive a vote in the Committee.
Faced with serious and principled objections over a nominee who funded some of the ugliest attack ads in a generation, President Bush had a choice between honoring the veterans who have served this country by distancing himself from these despicable ads and rewarding the donors who served his political goals,” said Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Stacie Paxton. “Sadly, President Bush once again put the interests of his Party ahead of the American people by circumventing the Senate in a clear abuse of his power.
Now that President Bush has made his position clear smooth talking Mitt Romney, who has already taken $100,000 from Fox, has an obligation to tell the American people whether he supports the President’s abuse of power, or if he agrees that the sort of attack ads Sam Fox is notorious for have no place in American politics.”
President Bush’s decision to circumvent the Senate comes on the same day the Democratic National Committee released a new report entitled, “A Government For The Party, Not The People,” which chronicles six years of the Bush Administration putting politics ahead of good government.
Fox contributed $50,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which was responsible for notoriously brutal and utterly false attack ads smearing Senator John Kerry and his Vietnam crewmates during the 2004 election. In response to Fox’s nomination, 11 of Kerry’s crewmates sent the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a letter saying that “those who finance smears and lies of combat veterans don't deserve to represent America on the world stage. [Associated Press, 3/28/07] President Bush withdrew Fox’s nomination last week when it became clear he would not survive a vote in the Committee.
Faced with serious and principled objections over a nominee who funded some of the ugliest attack ads in a generation, President Bush had a choice between honoring the veterans who have served this country by distancing himself from these despicable ads and rewarding the donors who served his political goals,” said Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Stacie Paxton. “Sadly, President Bush once again put the interests of his Party ahead of the American people by circumventing the Senate in a clear abuse of his power.
Now that President Bush has made his position clear smooth talking Mitt Romney, who has already taken $100,000 from Fox, has an obligation to tell the American people whether he supports the President’s abuse of power, or if he agrees that the sort of attack ads Sam Fox is notorious for have no place in American politics.”
President Bush’s decision to circumvent the Senate comes on the same day the Democratic National Committee released a new report entitled, “A Government For The Party, Not The People,” which chronicles six years of the Bush Administration putting politics ahead of good government.
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