Update 1:20pm: Bat emailed me and informed me the tiger story about Sam Fox has already been removed from Wikipedia, so it was probably a hoax. Doesn’t matter, I still don’t like the swiftboating asshole!

While the cats are away, the rat will play. Three recess appointments that aren’t good, unless of course, you’re Bill Kristol.

Despite the Democrats’ fierce objections to Fox and two other appointees, conservatives lauded Bush’s exercise of his constitutional prerogative. Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol, who had urged Bush to recess-appoint Fox, said yesterday: “It’s good; it shows he’s fighting back. He had a ‘kick me’ sign on his back, and it shows he’s taken the sign off.”

Full article at the Washington Post

Swiftboater Sam Fox, appointed Ambassador to Belgium.
From Wikipedia:
According to his daughter Pamela, one of Sam’s greatest pleasures was to buy Bengali tigers [1], invite friends for a hunting expedition, and shoot the tigers. Twenty-five years ago, Fox would charge $10,000 a head to participate in this hunting party.

That’s ALL I need to know about this guy to let me know he’s bad.

Pro Industry Susan Dudley, appointed to oversee federal regulatory policy at the Office of Management and Budget.
From SourceWatch:
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Dudley complained that the Environmental Protection Agency had overstated the benefits of the Toxic Release Inventory. She went on to claim that there were national security risks to the disclosure of the information. “Perhaps more importantly, in light of recent events, EPA has not addressed the risks that making chemical risk information broadly available to potential terrorists can pose,” she wrote.

Andrew Biggs appointed to deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
From MarketWatch:
“Andrew Biggs has a long history as an ideological promoter of Social Security privatization, an idea the American people resoundingly rejected, and he was deemed unfit for this post,” Baucus said, in a statement. “I’m troubled not only by the constitutional end run around the Senate here, but by the White House’s willful disregard of the American people’s concerns.”