The limp sister, pretending to enjoy her moment with W.
Posted on 04/22/2005 3:44:52 PM PDT by Crackingham
President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was put in further peril Friday when a fourth Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressed concern about him and a former Bush ambassador called his behavior "undiplomatic."
A spokeswoman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said the senator felt the committee “did the right thing delaying the vote on Bolton in light of the recent information presented to the committee.”
Asked if Bolton had Murkowski’s support, spokeswoman Kristin Pugh said, “I can’t speculate on how she would vote.”
She said Murkowski was traveling and could not be reached.
Before the recent allegations that Bolton threatened and bullied subordinates and sought to influence U.S. intelligence assessments improperly, Pugh said Murkowski had met with Bolton and expressed support. But since then, she said, Murkowski decided the accusations merit further examination.
Pugh said Murkowski has discussed the nomination with Sen. George Voinovich, the Ohio Republican who stunned lawmakers when he said he was not prepared to support Bolton as Republicans were set to muscle the nomination through the committee on a party-line vote. Republican Sens. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska also said they wanted more information on the accusations before they made up their minds.
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They're not called "The Stupid Party" for nothing.
I think Bush needs to do some whip cracking here and let them know that he is in charge of the Party.
Well if he doesn't the Washington Post won't write an nice editorial about him. What's he supposed to do? /sarcasm
Just yank them off any comittee they are on.
Tell them *mabye* they'll get it back with repeated good behavior.
Pubbies are revolting.
This sort of thing happens frequently throughout the federal bureaucracy. The big boss has two obvious things he can do ~ the first is to let it happen, and the staffers go elsewhere. The second is to discipline the boss.
Well, that's what it would seem like, but in the federal government, even in State Department, the boss has a third option ~ forget about it!
And that's apparantly what Powell did up until the New York Times and a couple of their bought and paid-for Senators bothered him.
Now the Internet and the Blogsphere click in and Powell is rapidly finding out that he'd never before been on such a public stage.
Isn't this the same situation Powell got into over Mei Lei? ~ he just kinda' tried to forget about it.
You'd think he'd know better by now.
Stevens is getting up there in years. He looks fine, though, and is sharp as a tack. But, when he retires, Alaska is going to be in big trouble without the pork. Murkowski, who knows, she is still creating her senateness.
The GOP won't have a true majority in the senate until they have over 50 non-RINO's.
This secret plan is to then hold democrats to the new requirements they have set forth. Yeah, that's the ticket, a secret plan. Our side is so friggin' smart.
But...but...but then the MSM will attack the President!
I just called the Anchorage office. Im under the impression, based on the conversation I just had, that she will vote against it..
My mistake! I see the name and think of her father.
The limp sister, pretending to enjoy her moment with W.
Voinovich is starting to take too much heat...so the 'boys' need another freshman senator to 'take one for the team'... play bad cop....and take up the slack.
Looks like a whole herd of rinos is headed our way.
Looks like a whole herd of rinos is headed our way.
Honest question:
If the GOp refuses to stand up and not kowtow to political pressures from non-GOPers then why should I vote for the GOP in November?
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