If the Senate is gone fishin', then Bush can do the "Boltonesque" business and bypass the Senate, as he has done almost 200 times thus far:
Let's walk down memory lane:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/01/bolton.appointment/index.html
...Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, called Bolton's recess appointment an "abuse of power."
"It's bad enough that the administration stonewalled the Senate by refusing to disclose documents highly relevant to the Bolton nomination," he said. "It's even worse for the administration to abuse the recess appointment power by making the appointment while Congress is in this five-week recess."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/04/AR2006010401953.html
Bush Appointments Avert Senate Battles
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 5, 2006; Page A13
President Bush yesterday made a raft of controversial recess appointments, including Julie L. Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau at the Department of Homeland Security, in a maneuver circumventing the need for approval by the Senate.
Myers, a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers and the wife of the chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, had been criticized by Republicans and Democrats who charged that she lacked experience in immigration matters.....Bush appointed Tracy A. Henke as executive director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness. She had been accused in her politically appointed post at the Justice Department of demanding that information about racial disparities in police treatment of blacks in traffic cases be deleted from a news release.
The president avoided an abortion rights battle with the recess appointment of former Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Ellen R. Sauerbrey as assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. Sauerbrey is an opponent of abortion rights.
For the Federal Election Commission, Bush picked Justice Department employee and former Fulton County, Ga., Republican chairman Hans von Spakovsky for one of three openings. Von Spakovsky is widely viewed as a key player in two disputed Justice Department decisions to overrule career staff in voting rights cases.....McCain and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) issued statements critical of the appointments. Von Spakovsky may have undermined "enforcement of our civil rights laws," Kennedy said. "By appointing von Spakovsky, the White House missed an opportunity to fill this important position with a person clearly committed to these fundamental rights."
Everything you wanted to know about RECESS APPTS at this PDF link:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RS21308.pdf