To: Truth29
IMHO. Voinivich's comments gave Hagel the cover to withdraw his pledge to vote for Bolton. Any way you scratch it, the White House has to start hurting, and hurting bad, all Republicans who get off the reservation on any vote that the White House deems critical. That's the equivalent of the British system of party line votes on issues that would otherwise bring down the government.
John / Billybob
1,393 posted on
04/19/2005 2:46:52 PM PDT by
Congressman Billybob
(Proud to be a FORMER member of the Bar of the US Supreme Court since July, 2004.)
To: Congressman Billybob
1,399 posted on
04/19/2005 2:47:58 PM PDT by
Dog
To: Congressman Billybob
You're right. The WH and the party leadership needs to enforce party discipline RIGOROUSLY, but Bush has never been any good at taking retribution against those who stab him and the conservative agenda in the back IMHO.
To: Congressman Billybob
IMHO. Voinivich's comments gave Hagel the cover to withdraw his pledge to vote for Bolton.What we don't know yet is Voinovich's real motives. It just doesn't make sense to me that Voinovich would embarass Lugar and the Party over the UN Ambassadorship. I suspect that this might be a not-very-subtle message from the wobbly Republicans to the President and Majority Leader that the "nucular option" won't be supported. Or perhaps Georgie V. is looking for some handout for Cleveland.
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