To: Howlin
MORE BOLTON [Rich Lowry ]
An e-mail from well-informed source:
“A few tidbits...
1. The Senate went into a special recess so Bolton could be voted out. Voinovich knew this. He was on board. If he had a problem, he could have told Leadership before we went into a special recess.
2. Voinovich's reason for not voting for Bolton today? "I haven't been to the hearings and haven't heard all these allegations until now." Embarrassing.
3. Lugar could have solved this problem easily -- he could have asked Voinovich to abstain if he didn't feel prepared to vote. He could have told him that he was embarrasing him (Lugar) and all Republicans for blindsiding him. He could have recessed for 5 minutes so Republicans could have talked to him.
4. Lugar postponed for *three weeks.* He could have called another meeting tomorrow morning and given people time to get to Voinovich.
5. Chafee -- does anybody think he'll stick, now that Voinovich is giving him cover?”
To: FreedomNeocon
I left a pretty vulgar voicemail for Voin. Basically said if he was too busy to attend Foeign Relations Committee meetings when ONE OF HIS PRESIDENT'S NOMINEES WAS BEING CONSIDERED, then he should resign and let a more responsible Republican take his seat.
1,606 posted on
04/19/2005 4:06:07 PM PDT by
clintonh8r
(Heteronormative and PROUD!!)
To: FreedomNeocon
"1. The Senate went into a special recess so Bolton could be voted out. Voinovich knew this. He was on board. If he had a problem, he could have told Leadership before we went into a special recess."
Excuse my ignorance but what does this mean? Voted out?
To: FreedomNeocon
2. Voinovich's reason for not voting for Bolton today? "I haven't been to the hearings and haven't heard all these allegations until now." Embarrassing. Embarrassing......says it all.
1,614 posted on
04/19/2005 4:09:09 PM PDT by
MamaLucci
(Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
To: FreedomNeocon
2. Voinovich's reason for not voting for Bolton today? "I haven't been to the hearings and haven't heard all these allegations until now." Embarrassing.
Holy crap. He actually said that? So his position is that he is negligent in his duties so therefore he needed to blind-side Lugar and the President? Holy crap.
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