Posted on 07/09/2005 11:00:13 AM PDT by RWR8189
DAYTON | The most vocal Republican opponent to John Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations said there is a "55/45" chance the Bush administration will name Bolton to the job while Congress is in recess.
But Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, also said, "I have a gut feeling that logic will prevail" against appointing Bolton.
"It's like the children's story, the Emperor's Clothes: Everybody knows he's in his underwear and nobody will say it," Voinovich said Friday in an interview with the Dayton Daily News editorial board. Voinovich's outspoken opposition to Bolton's appointment has attracted national attention. He allowed Bolton's name to be sent from the Foreign Relations Committee to the full Senate for an up-or-down vote, but has railed on the Senate floor against Bolton.
"The record before the Senate documents the allegations related to Mr. Bolton's lack of interpersonal skills and management style, the pattern of intimidation with intelligence analysts, and the allegations that Mr. Bolton had a habit of cherry-picking intelligence to suit his perception of the world and his ideology," Voinovich said in a Senate-floor speech last week. Bolton needs Senate confirmation to become U.N. ambassador, but Bush can appoint him temporarily, until January 2007, using a recess appointment. Voinovich said Friday he has had second thoughts about not voting Bolton down in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this spring. Instead, Voinovich urged the committee to send the nomination to the Senate without a recommendation — which it did.
Senate Democrats also oppose the nomination. The Bush administration has called for a Senate vote and blame Democrats, not Voinovich, for blocking one. "You're talking about one individual (Voinovich) who has expressed his opposition to his nomination," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan in June. "But it is a minority Senate Democratic leadership that is preventing this nomination from moving forward and that is preventing John Bolton getting about doing the important work of reform at the United Nations." In other matters, Voinovich defended James Conrad, who resigned in June as administrator of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation in the wake of the bureau's $58 million investment in a rare coin fund that is missing $13 million.
As governor, Voinovich said he appointed Conrad to head and correct a number of troubled agencies, including in 1995, the state's workers' compensation insurance fund, after years of complaints of mismanagement. He said Conrad was "one of the finest public administrators in the country," and is responsible for turning the agency around.
"The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation is one of the finest run organizations in America and is looked on by the business community as such," Voinovich said. The bureau has been under scrutiny because of investment practices and losses. In addition to the rare coin fund problems, it also came to light that the bureau lost $215 million last year in a high-risk hedge fund.
Voinovich (R?-OH) proving to be just as openly obstructionist to President Bush's nominee as the 'rats.
Gotta love them RINOs.
Do it! And filibuster the rats when they try to remove the appointment.
You can't remove a recess appointment, it expires at the end of this Congress.
When is a suitable recess for the appointment to take place?
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
So in other words, between now and when the Senate returns from recess.
No. The emperor was naked, not 'in his underwear.' You're an uneducated idiot, George.
Are they in recess right now?
Voinovich is a butt naked POS.
Voinobitch is a old woman.
That is bull. Bush barely got 51 percent of the votes in Ohio last year. Voinovich got 63 percent. Considering that 36 percent of the voters in Ohio are Democrats, Voinovich got almost all of the Republican votes and nearly all the moderate votes.
Bush got all the Republican votes and just a tad more than half the moderates.
Voinovich refused to campaign with Bush in Ohio in 2004, he said it would cost him votes...He did not campaign for or with Bush at all and got 63 percent of the votes.
Voinovich is a RINO as is DeWhine. They are Rinos because RINOs and DINOs always do well in Ohio. When Democrats run liberals and Republicans run RINOS the RINOS win by a huge margin.
Ohio is trending to the left. A 53 percent Bush win in 2000 fell to a 51 percent bush win in 2004. Hillary may very well carry Ohio in 2008.
IT took the most aggressive campaign in my memory for Bush to win Ohio in 2004. He had an easy win in 2000. Gore pulled out of the state in 2000 with 3 weeks left.
Kerry very nearly won Ohio in 2004.
If you think a conservative can be elected in Ohio, you need your brain examined. Look for the Democrats to win all the Ohio State offices in 2006.
Politicians always do the same thing. The go where the voters are... That is what Voinovich and DeWine are doing.
And you Sen. Voinovich, wear former Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum's panties...
I'm happy with NOBODY at the UN.
Did Voinovichy break down and start bawling when he contemplated Bolton's appointment?
Is he sobbing yet? (or just drunk?)
FMCDH(BITS)
Let's See:
Voinovich = Fomer Cleveland Mayor
Kucunich(sp?) = Fomer Cleveland Mayor
HUMMMM...
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