Posted on 03/08/2005 6:56:41 PM PST by ChicagoRighty
Comments by Robert Novak on President Bush's nomination for UN Ambassador are telling and a good place to get started.
... President Bush's appointment of John Bolton as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was a huge surprise. It is the clearest sign yet that Bush is taking off his gloves and preparing to make life miserable for the UN establishment.
1) Bolton, the current undersecretary of State for arms control, seemed earmarked for oblivion during Bush's second term. He is no John Danforth.
2) Bolton's nomination to State in 2001 was greeted by Democratic apoplexy. He was decried then as a dangerous ideologue who would "dismantle" world efforts at arms control. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) called his a "terrible nomination," and Senate Democrats, one after another, rose and recited Bolton quotations they found unpalatable and outrageous.
3) Among Bolton's better quotations: "The Europeans can be sure that America's days as a well-bred doormat for EU political and military protections are coming to an end." Also: "While treaties may be politically or even morally binding, they are not legally obligatory." More: "There is no such thing as the United Nations." And finally: "If the UN secretariat building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
4) Bolton is a fearless movement conservative who, as undersecretary of State, sat at the head table at last year's 50th anniversary banquet of the American Conservative Union. It is difficult to imagine an appointment that would be more offensive to congressional liberals, to Washington's diplomatic class, or even to moderate Republicans. Yet Bolton's nomination to State in 2001 was confirmed by a Senate vote of 57-43. Five of the seven Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Bolton in 2001 are still in the Senate now.
5) Bolton's nomination comes just days after UN observers shouted, jeered, and catcalled when the U.S. delegate to a UN convention on women, Ellen Sauerbrey, attempted to speak. Sauerbrey was pushing to prevent the UN's "Beijing plus ten" conference from being seen as establishing an internationally recognized right to abortion.
"It is the clearest sign yet that Bush is taking off his gloves and preparing to make life miserable for the UN establishment"...
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I like Novak. He's usually got the best insider info from around the Beltway but his writing neverreads like it's been sensationalized.
"It is the clearest sign yet that Bush is taking off his gloves and preparing to make life miserable for the UN establishment"...
You've got to love that... we can only hope.
Sounds like the right guy for the job...
It is the clearest sign yet that Bush is taking off his gloves and preparing to make life miserable for the UN establishment.
'Preparing to?' And I thought Bush had been doing a pretty good job of that all along. This might get real interesting.
Preparing for the knock-out punch?
I'm beginning to believe that Bush and Rove have decided to force the Dems into madness with appointments that will drive them to blocking appointments. Eventually, they will be seen as the Party of NO.
The UN is antithetical to human rights, human civilization and human progress.
'nuff said?
Ambassador Bolton RULES!
Ahhhhhhhhh
Pass the popcorn. This is going to get interesting real fast!!
*smiling*
Bolton's just the kind of man we need dealing with the UN, if we have to be involved with them at all.
I hope it doesn't mellow him, he's been an unapologetic right-wing American, I hope he says on course.
I don't know. I used to think that his main objective was to keep bubba out of the Sec-Gen seat but now I think there's a lot more to it.
I think you are right.
I am absolutely loving John Bolton's appointment to the UN. More than one Dem head exploded after that nomination!
The confirmation hearing should be delightful.
"Bolton's nomination comes just days after UN observers shouted, jeered, and catcalled when the U.S. delegate to a UN convention on women, Ellen Sauerbrey, attempted to speak. Sauerbrey was pushing to prevent the UN's "Beijing plus ten" conference from being seen as establishing an internationally recognized right to abortion."
Those catcalls were coming from the Global Feminist leftist elite, that have managed to create a taxpayer-funded shindig to confer, add to their power, bash male patriarchy all the while enjoying the privileges of being part of the global elite...
Bush is not afraid to send in straight-shooters to bust up these events. Good for him. This is like the Terminex man coming to a convention of cockroaches.
Have you seen the Soc Sec take off of that commercial?
"I don't know. I used to think that his main objective was to keep bubba out of the Sec-Gen seat but now I think there's a lot more to it."
If all is does is keep "bubba" out of there, that is tremendous, as it MUST BE DONE.
I HOPE there's a lot more to it. (see tagline)
ROFL!! Rummy AND Bolton? Time to get the straitjackets for the Libs! lol
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