As we have posted before, both here and here, John Bolton it the right man at the right time to bring some much needed shakeup at the United Nations. With so much corruption and scandal at the UN, we need a man with the character, strength, and stamina to represent the United States as our Ambassador.

The Senate failed in their Constitutional duty to confirm this great nominee by the unconstitutional use of the filibuster, President Bush had no alternative but to appoint John Bolton via his Constitutional use of the recess appointment. (HT to Red State.)

Here are the President’s remarks today in making the appointment:

“This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about U.N. reform. So today I’ve used my constitutional authority to appoint John Bolton to serve as America’s ambassador to the United Nations,

I am sending John to the U.N. with my complete confidence … His mission now is to speak for me on critical issues facing the international community. And he’ll make it clear that America values the potential of the United Nations to be a source of hope and dignity and peace,…”

We congratulate Mr. Bolton, and we support President Bush in the use of his Constitutional authority to make the appointment.

The Wall Street Opinion Journal has an excellent editorial today entitled, The U.N.’s Tipping Point, The real reformer is John Bolton, not Kofi Annan.. The writer makes an excellent point about the timing of Bolton’s confirmation by writing the following:

“Today–maybe, possibly, fingers crossed, and if Jupiter is in the Seventh House–the Senate will vote for cloture in the debate over John Bolton’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, meaning he will at last get the up-or-down vote he has been denied for months. And barring further surprises–no ruling those out, either–Mr. Bolton will be confirmed, meaning he may finally get down to the serious work that confronts the United States at the U.N, particularly in the matter of organizational reform.

For those who are genuine friends of the U.N.’s better ambitions–and we count ourselves among them–the pity is this didn’t happen a (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)

From all we have read concerning John Bolton, most of the criticism has come from charges that have no basis in fact. Is he tough minded? Is he no non-sense? Does he speak his mind? The answers to all these questions are yes.

These are qualities few people at the United Nations understand or appreciate, but they are qualities that are desperately needed by the next ambassador to that body. We need him to communicate to the UN, just how irrelevant they have become, and to force the corruption to be cleaned up. The UN has become a cesspool of scandal, and criminality which must be dealt with. The corruption ranges from unbridled sexually perverted peacekeepers in Africa, to unethical fraudulent oil-for-food criminals, which reaches to the highest levels.

Our next Ambassador to the UN, must take a message from the majority of the American people who are tired of paying taxes supporting the kind of conduct which is currently taking place there now.

The Senate needs to confirm him today, and let him take his place alongside all the other true leaders who have represented us in the past.

We awakened yesterday with new hope for Senate Republicans. We saw some progress in the filibuster wars, with Republican leadership at last starting to verbalize what everyone in the base was wanting to hear. But alas it was short lived as is evidenced by the postponement of nomination hearings for John Bolton as ambassador to the UN.

The United Nations has become so corrupt, scandal ridden, beneath comtempt, and irrelevant in recent years, it will take a tough minded individual as ambassador to help straighten it out. John Bolton is just such a person. Power Line has the details in their article entitled, Senate Slanderfest to Continue. Here is a portion:

“ANOTHER UPDATE: Rich Lowry got an email from a “well-informed source”:

A few tidbits…

1. The Senate went into a special recess so Bolton could (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)