The "Neo-Con" Label...

Personally, I dislike how people are assigned labels as if that makes it easier to understand them. At the same time I am wondering what it means to be labeled a "neo-con" or neo-conservative. With the senate in recess John Bolton has been appointed to the United Nations without a vote. Our allies in England have their own opinion and their own label.

Has this happened before? No, but the senate has refused to approve a United Nations nomination in the past: "Richard Holbrooke, who Republicans delayed for 14 months as Bill Clinton's nominee to the U.N., refused to bypass the Senate with a recess appointment, saying that it would introduce him to the world body with no credibility or authority."