Posted on 04/20/2005 12:00:48 PM PDT by Republican Red
Add another Senator to the list of Senators suffering from Shriveled Gnads syndrome. It seem to be epidemic among cowardly Republican Senators , especially Rino's
The Powell/Armitage connection against Bolton was being floated last night. Disgusting petty revenge.
Bad form, General Powell. Bad form indeed.
FWIW, I think the Dems,as usual, overplayed their hand, and it will blow up in their faces big time, like the Wellstone memorial service. Bolton will be confirmed, but he has been maligned, and he will want to confront his accusers, and the Dem senators, in an open forum..
Pardon for the mis-ping. Meant to type in Dog.
Pingeroo.
I doubt that the SFRC will even convene another meeting on Bolton. He'll be withdrawn. The GOP cowards on the committee and the chair don't have the stomach for a fight with committed RATs like Biden, Boxer and Dodd. They are completely outgunned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387448/posts
Doesn't sound like he's backing off.
Thanks for the ping--
I hope that if Powell and Armitage had ANYTHING to do with this, it is brought out because for the last four years the dems and lib pundits just bashed Bush, Cheney, Rummy, but they always talked glowingly about Powell---
I always thought it was wrong for them to completely absolve Powell of any blame, if they were SO against everything said or done re: Iraq---Powell wasn't a puppet after all!
I would love to see him confirmed, but after yesterday's pathetic performance by the RAT-owned RINOs, I have little hope.
If there is, it might well come to light; Mr. Armitage has been fairly brazen about going to the press, both in his efforts against Mr. Bush's policies and initiatives during Mr. Armitage's tenure at State, and bragging about such after he left State. He may well feel that he will get more approbation from the MSM if he fesses up to any role that he might have had in this nomination fight.
The GOP cowards on the committee and the chair don't have the stomach for a fight with committed RATs like Biden, Boxer and Dodd. They are completely outgunned.
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This is a HUGE PROBLEM we have. The scumbag Dems are taking every advantage of the wimpy Repubs who DO NOT FIGHT HARD! This is a classic example. If these RINOs (and yes they are NOT party material) were worth a crap, they would kick butt on these losers like Biden and Boxer -- God, what a couple of maggots -- and these weaklings that call themselves Repubs just let them tromp all over them.
Come on guys, FIGHT THESE GUTTER RATS!!!
Click here to see what Biden had to say about Bolton in 2001
I'm not very familiar with him, but that could be one reason for him not supporting Bolton, since Bolton basically told the international gun-grabbers at the UN to KISS OUR gun-owning, 2nd Amendment-supporting-and-defending American ASSES a few years back.
fyltGe!
Lugar has taken a lot of flak on these threads for not "standing up to the Dems" yesterday. If you watched you would have seen that he was doing a heck of a job until he was blindsided by Voinovich. Had he played hardball and called for a vote Bolton would not have made it out of the Committee and his bid would be dead. The problem (as always) is with the RINOs. Somehow they have to get through to Voinovich, Hagel & Chaffee that there will be consequences when they act like this. Is there a way of reassigning committees between election years? How can some of these Rinos be taken off these sensitive committees? That's the kind of action that needs to be taken.
I am emensely disdusted with Voinovich. He didn't bother attending the hearings for Bolton. Now he's not willing to vote for Bolton because of some complaints by State Department staff that he hurt their feelings in the distant past?
Is it possible for the Republican Senate leadership to remove him from the foreign relations committee, since he obviously isn't willing to do his job and be prepared.
He's a continued embarassment to the state of Ohio. We need to find a real conservative to run against him in the next primary.
"Come on guys, FIGHT THESE GUTTER RATS!!!"
You got it right. Where is President Bush? He should be leading the fight, instead of running around the Country with SS. The heck with SS. Those brain dead AARP don't want to rebuild the soon to be broke system. Meanwhile we are falling apart.
"Isn't Voinovich a gun-grabbing RINO?"
Yes! He says he supports gun owners rights, but votes against them.
His staff quit responding to my emails about this once I started quoting his voting record in response to their assurances that he supports gun owners.
Not really. The MBNA Board of Driectors doesn't care whether Bolton gets confirmed or not. ;)
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