LIVE THREAD: Senate Coverage AND Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on Bolton nomination

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[ken5050]

OK..here's what we know..Senate is in recess for the weekly party caucus luncheons. Supposed to resume at 2:15. on C-span 2.. The Foreign Relations committee is supposed to meet at 2:45 to vote on the Bolton nomination. Lugar has refused requests for a delay. Just before the Senate recessed, Reid objected to Frist's UC request for the Froeign Relations committee to meet today. Frist withdrew his request..

[samantha]

ROTFLMAO, Good lord do you slay me with these frank letters to Chairmen. At least you gave him a kiss first. Hah!

[RoseofTexas]

Outta curiosity, CAN the pubs call a special meeting or conference tomorrow and demand a vote of Bolton...kinda like turning the tables of the pukeRATS, an up or down vote? You know like a sneaky attack or something like that?

[samantha]

Lip readers anyone?

[SoVaDPJ]

Look here for information on that great Republican, Carl Ford.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383117/posts

[mtnwmn]

I'm afraid the day turned sour when Luger tried to get Bolton voted out of committee. He had the usual suspects, Biden, Boxer, etc., but he hadn't counted on the typical spineless Republicans who played right into the Democrats hands. Luger did the best he could in the circumstances that he was put into......more by the Republicans than the Democrats. If I had been him, I would have insisted on the vote.....however, I don't know the consequences of that procedure. I might add neither did Luger!

[thelastvirgil]

After this embarrassment, I am starting to think the Pubbies don't have a cohesiveness problem, but a simple lack of intelligence. How friggin' stupid does a group of grown men have to be to have the likes of Kerry, Sarbanes, and Biden make them look bad? I doubt any of those jerks have an IQ larger than their shoe size.

[Cyclopean Squid]

It's not roguish to put loyalty to country over loyalty to president.

It is roguish not to inform your party of your stance. Senator Vacillate blindsided everyone, appearing out of nowhere to rally to the Dems' cause. He either knew he would not support Bolton and is therefore a traitor to his party, or his mind was changed by the Dems and he is therefore an indecisive buffoon. Either way, that hardly makes him an American hero.

[MamaLucci]

Now I AM laughing......"a pattern of behavior".....LOL! How naive
I sat here and watched 8 YEARS worth of corrupt "patterns of behavior",
from illegal fundraising, to selling out our national security,
wholesale to communist China, for campaign cash;
Lincoln Bedroom rentals, treating terror attacks as "law enforcement problems";
Waco, the first trade center bombing, OKC, TWA Flight 800, Vince Foster
(who killed himself, IMHO, in the WH, due to guilt about Waco),
lying under oath, and last minute pardoning of terrorists and Marc Rich.
And, NOW we're supposed to pay attention because John Bolton wasn't "sensitive" in his dealings with others,
and because he disagreed with some NSA document redactions?
Get a hold of yourself.

[RoseofTexas]

Outta curiosity, CAN the pubs call a special meeting or conference tomorrow and demand a vote of Bolton...kinda like turning the tables of the pukeRATS, an up or down vote? You know like a sneaky attack or something like that?

This post was meant fOR Ken5050 NOT for pearlstein!!!!

[Pukin Dog]

Chaffee is just trying to start a trend. Fact is, Chaffee is the biggest coward in Washington. He knows that if he gets on record for supporting Bolton, he will give ammo to his opponent in the next election.

But he also knows that if he votes against Bolton then Bush will allow primary challenges to Chaffee, where he stands a chance of being defeated by another Republican.

So, all he can hope for is for other Senators to vote with him AGAINST Bolton, so Bush cant blame him directly. Chaffee needs a good beating.

[hipaatwo]

Just posted this on another thread:


FNC... [Rich Lowry ] ...just reported that Chafee says Bolton's GOP support is eroding. And that Lugar says he was (not surprisingly) blindsided by Voinovich... http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp

[SoVaDPJ]

I can't seem to turn off CSpan--it's like a car wreck. I'm embarrassed to look, but I can't look away. Byrd, then McCain. Somebody send me a kitten!

[EllaMinnow]

He didn't seem to understand what was going on, poker-wise, during the hearing.

So democratic politicians are better poker players...and, to you, that's all that matters. Just keep on that path, Perlstein, till you're left with a handful of senators from New England and California. Because that's all you're going to have left.

One day you'll realize that the majority of voters in this country aren't playing poker, and aren't one bit impressed by the "skills" shown by Biden, Dodd, Kerry, and Company.

[Howlin]

From quidnunc:

Rich Lowry in National Review's 'The corner' seems ti be intimating that Bolton is toast and that it was the Powell/Armitage loyalists still in the State Dept. that burned him.

[Mo1]

I do not consider him a lame duck, but, believe me, THEY do think of him that way; all their thinking about now is 2006 and 2008, which, as far as they are concerned, doesn't not involve him.

Well they best realize that we like Bush

And weren't fond of them

And after this committee meeting today .. The Senate's Poll Ratings went down even further

We didn't bust out butts to get all those republican senators in office just so they could screw us over

We'll just see who has the last laugh

NOT ONE DANG DIME TILL THEY GROW A SPINE!!!

[ken5050]

Disagree..I think Allen was absolutely stuned, shocked, beebed...at what happened....he was literally speechless..

[SoVaDPJ]

You forgot the Oval Office X-rated antics.

[CFC__VRWC]

How can we get the accurate intelligence we need to win the GWOT if analysts feel intimidated for political reasons?

Since when do you leftists care about winning the War on Terror anyhow? Wasn't the entire thing dreamed up by George Bush and the neocons in Crawford to provide an excuse for us to invade Afghanistan and Iraq so we could steal the oil and build a pipeline for Halliburton? Oh yeah, and throw all you leftists into the death camps for good measure?

You mean you're actually conceding there might be something to the War on Terror? Or are you just invoking it now because it's politically expedient for your side to do so today?

[MamaLucci]

Lifelong Conservative my chubby Italian a$$.

ROFLMAO!!!

[ken5050]

NO..it would require UC..