I'm giving Chaffee and Hagel a pass on this..Hagel looked pathetic..he has doubts, but "he's voting to pass the nominee, and then debate on the Senate floor"..talk about being on all 5 sides of a square..The idea that this guy wants to be president is a farce. Same for Chafee..he stood tall, said he would vote for the nominee, despite considerable political pressure back home..Now, since the nominee wasn't gonna pass..he tookt he opportunity to carefully suggest a compromise, and score some points politically back home..He didn't hurt his party..NO..Voinovich is the son of a vich..
Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record), (R-OH), listens to a discussion on United States Ambassador to the UN nominee John Bolton at the Capitol on April 19, 2005. The committee, which had been set to vote on sending Bolton's nomination to the Senate, agreed instead to reconsider the nomination after Voinovich said he was unwilling to vote to send the nomination to the Senate yet. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Senator Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., left, and Sen. Chuck, R-Neb., talk prior to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in Washington to vote on John Bolton to be the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
Vich thinks he came out of this smelling like a rose, trying to play the darling of the day...BOY O BOY he's in for a rude awakening when walks into to his office and clerk hands him all the email and voice mails! He tried to be a cocky SOB in front of the cameras! I hope it bites him in the *$$!!