My Way News: "Bush installed Pickering by a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process. Such appointments are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005."

Hurrah for Dubya!! Now maybe we won't hear so much about the "kindler-gentler" nonsense and get some political statesmanship. Not one enemy of George Bush has been won over by his stroking of Ted Kennedy and the other nasties in Washington. Play hardball, that's what I say.