[Republican Red]

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R., Furrowed Brow)

Great editorial. That description of Hagel is priceless.

[sgtbono2002]

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

[prairiebreeze]

Those policy disputes are at the bottom of the charges against Bolton. This is the revenge of the State department bureaucracy and its former servants Colin Powell and Dick Armitage. Contrary to former State department bureaucrat Carl Ford's smear of Bolton as a "kiss up, kick down" kind of guy, Bolton repeatedly clashed with Powell and Armitage over substance. Now they are hitting back. It is difficult to believe that Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson would viciously attack Bolton on the record in the New York Times without Powell's assent

The Powell/Armitage connection against Bolton was being floated last night. Disgusting petty revenge.

Bad form, General Powell. Bad form indeed.

[ken5050]

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..

[Howlin]

Pingeroo.

[DocH]

Isn't Voinovich a gun-grabbing RINO?

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.

[untrained skeptic]

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.

[Logical me]

"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.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Ranking minority member Joseph Biden has pursued this course at the price of his own personal credibility.

Not really. The MBNA Board of Driectors doesn't care whether Bolton gets confirmed or not. ;)

[Mr. Jeeves]

Ranking minority member Joseph Biden has pursued this course at the price of his own personal credibility.

Not really. The MBNA Board of Directors doesn't care whether Bolton gets confirmed or not. ;)

[cotton1706]

This is the same old story. Rail against a conservative and try to put pressure to get some mushy grape-like moderate in tht post. It happened with Nixon and we got Blackmun, it happened with Reagan and we got Kennedy. Bush seems to like to shove back and is not backing down. If Bolton is defeated, Bush should find somebody even more odious to the democrats. Is there anybody else around that used to work for Agnew??

[mass55th]

Does anybody know what Voinovich's reason is that he missed the Bolton hearings? I've yet to find out where he was that kept him from attending.

[shield]

Geeezzzz....this is ridiculous...can't believe we've got these kinda senator turds in DC....somethin' needs to be done over this outrageous crapola, we continually keep seeing this in corrupt DC....

[FreedomSurge]

Is Voinovich stupid, evil or corrupt? Does anyone know the real story on him. A vote against Bolton is a vote to endorse Kofi and the Oil for Food scandal.