Reid stops recess appointments

Harry Reid has surprised me. After so many long months of the Democrats pretty much doing nothing ...lots of talk followed by giving in to Bush over and over and over ...Reid has maneuvered to technically keep the Senate in session over the next couple of weeks, according to this Washington Post article.

So why does this matter? Because it prevents Bush from doing more recess appointments (remember John Bolton?). What this also means is that we can most likely expect Bush to leave more and more departments and agencies being run by 'acting' directors and people with similar titles who are able to avoid confirmation hearings.

Now, the question this does raise in my mind is why the Dems caved and allowed Mukasey to be confirmed. Feinstein, being her pseudo-Democrat self, wrote a piece explaining her vote for Mukasey. She stated that one of the reasons was to avoid recess appointments. Well gosh, so soon after that vote we see that Reid is able to prevent the recess appointments. What the hell is going on?

But at least this is a positive action from the Dems. It's about time.