Bush sent John Bolton to the U.N. on a recess appointment

National Review, August 29, 2005

Bush sent John Bolton to the U.N. on a recess appointment. His nomination had been filibustered by Democrats who threw every charge at him that Joe Biden and Chris Dodd could scrape from the floor of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He arrived at Turtle Bay with Democrats predicting his effectiveness would be blunted by his recess appointment, but other diplomats there pointed out that most ambassadors to the U.N.

don't have to be confirmed by legislatures. (We would add that many of them are not even appointed by elected governments.) John Bolton will ably represent and serve Bush's foreign policy, which is why many Democrats opposed him in the first place.