Holsinger and the Recess Appointment
ThinkProgress is reporting that it looks as though President Bush (see: biggest disappointment) plans to recess appoint Dr. James Holsinger as Surgeon General.
Holsinger is anti-gay, to the point of setting up a church to minister ‘to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian”. As Surgeon General, Dr. Holsinger would have the power to cure all the homos. Amen.
His nomination hasn’t gotten a vote in the Senate yet because he refuses to fill out a follow-up questionnaire put to him by the health committee; he’s over two months late in responding.
Yet, the good doctor resigned from his the board of trustees of Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Ky and is ‘telling people the president plans to appoint him to the post anyway once the Congress goes into its holiday recess, a well-connected Wilmore source says.’
If he were appointed by Bush, he could serve until the end of the next Congress, after the election and just before Bush’s term ends. Two weeks ago, Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington and New York, said he thought that a recess appointment would be ‘too divisive’, rendering it unlikely.
Not only to I think it’s likely, I think it’s exactly what he would have done with Mukasey (or someone worse).
Links:
Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Reveals Bush Plans To Recess Appoint Him [Think Progress]
Surgeon general nominee resigns from seminary board [Bible Belt Blogger]
Surgeon general nominee in limbo [Courier-Journal]
