Liberals on both coasts are self-destructing. You can sense their desperation. This article in particular reeks of wishful thinking on their part.
HINT: Bolton *will* be confirmed.
Posted on 04/16/2005 12:11:12 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska signaled Friday that his support for the nomination of John R. Bolton as U.N. ambassador was wavering after new reports that Bolton ordered an intelligence analyst removed from his job.
The analyst, a State Department employee who now works on Hagel's Senate staff, is the third intelligence analyst reported to have been threatened or intimidated by Bolton, who has served since 2001 as undersecretary of State for arms control and international security.
"Sen. Hagel is likely to be supportive [of Bolton] but he needs to be assured there are not additional serious areas of concern," Hagel spokesman Mike Buttry said, adding that Hagel was troubled by the new information.
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are investigating as many as five additional incidents in which Bolton's demeanor toward State Department subordinates has been questioned, say Senate staffers from both parties. In a confirmation hearing this week, testimony indicated Bolton demanded the removal of two intelligence analysts who disagreed with him.
Amid the developments, Hagel's remarks served as a warning that Bolton's confirmation, which had been considered assured, could falter if Democrats succeeded in producing more evidence against Bolton.
Democrats argue that Bolton's harsh criticisms of the United Nations and testimony that he bullied underlings make him unsuitable for the top U.N. job.
Republicans have countered that Bolton is the victim of character assassination and has the tough personality needed to reform the troubled world body.
A committee vote is scheduled for Tuesday, and the outcome is no longer guaranteed. Republicans control the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 10 to 8. The Democrats all oppose Bolton.
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Liberals on both coasts are self-destructing. You can sense their desperation. This article in particular reeks of wishful thinking on their part.
HINT: Bolton *will* be confirmed.
Chuckie Hagal is another backstabber with a monstrous ego. Same as John McCain but he makes less of a public spectacle of himself
Hagal, McCain, Gulianni ...... gonna be mighty slim pickings come the 2008 presidential race.
Heh! We could simply run a DeLay/Bolton ticket just to watch liberal heads explode!
My husband said he heard that Chaffee is the Republican swing vote on that committee and he's been offered no contest for his reelection if he votes to confirm.
The State Department? The State Department is a useless pack of entrenched socialist scumbags and Europhiles. I have to question why Hagel would have one these anti-American Democrat scumbags on his staff??
What's the deal with Hagel, anyway? I always thought he was a stand-up guy but now it looks like he's just a bunny rabbit who runs scared from the liberal press. Mostly though, the fact that he keeps at least one scumbag who couldn't hack it in the State Department on his staff is really, really troubling.
Why is the word "rocked" all the rage among newspaper editors? It's in virtually every headline. I really wish that they'd mix it up a bit.
Why don't these RINO's wear skirts and bring giant lollipops as they saunter down the catwalk parading their wares to the drooling libs in the press corps.
Rinos playing to the MSM. It is like Hillary taking a shower in a strip club.
"Hagel learned Thursday of the incident involving Rexon Ryu, a State Department nonproliferation analyst on temporary assignment to Hagel's staff. Although Hagel serves on the Foreign Relations Committee and questioned Bolton during the hearings, Ryu did not tell his boss about his problems with Bolton until Ryu learned that the incident would appear in news reports.
Former U.S. officials and Senate staffers confirmed a report in the Washington Post that Ryu ran afoul of Bolton in 2003 by allegedly failing to produce a document for Bolton's chief of staff. Bolton accused Ryu of concealing information and of insubordination.
Bolton had leveled similar charges against another State Department intelligence analyst, Christian Westermann, according to Bolton and Westermann. "
Ryu sounds like like a typical state department employee.
They're all making George Allen Jr. look better and better. But George Allen Sr.'s teams always looked terrific, too, until the game started and then they'd get blown off the field........
Hagel = McCain's Mini-Me
Ummmm........
but now it looks like he's just a bunny rabbit who runs scared from the liberal press.
More like the opposite. He runs STRAIGHT TO the liberal press, jumps up on their laps, asks to be petted, and tells them whatever they want to hear from a "maverick" Republican.
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