Republican joins Bolton hearing monkey biz (Steyn comes to the plate)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | April 24, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[FreedomPoster]

You must have quite a collection, as I see 2-3 in every column he pens.

[1john2 3and4]

Thanks for the ping Pokey!

Hiya Q! You said These good ol' boys need a good talkin' to.
I'm a-thinkin that language needs to sound something like "Cha-Ching", know what I mean, vern?

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the Steyn ping, Pokey! Bumpity-bump-bump! Steyn gave me a new tag; see below!

[Eagle of Liberty]

Every move the reps make is vilified and trashed by the MSM.

But, what they still do not get is that the American majority who voted for them DO NOT believe the MSM any more. The Reps still think that we do. Limbaugh said it correctly the other day. More of the Senators should listen to his show. One Senator's employee called him last week and asked him to mention a few talking points. He told the employee that he doesn't use talking points and besides he had already been talking about the subject for more than a week.

[A message]

" If they find it hard to govern as a Majority because a discredited press calls them mean names, they won't be the majority for much longer.

It needs to be remembered if the American people that elected them gave a damn what the press said, they wouldn't be there."

Worth repeating over and over.

[Txsleuth]

Steyn and Limbaugh---Bush and GOP should listen to them and we wouldn't be having our lives shortened by stress CAUSED by Bush and GOP!!!

[Defiant]

Great post! Thanks.

I think the few good Senators need to start a Conservative caucus within the Senate, the way the Dems have a Socialist caucus and a Black Caucus and so on. Donors should only support members of this caucus, and members should be admitted only when they stick with the program. In states where there is a GOP senator but not a Conservative Caucus senator, we should run challengers that are conservative and commit to joining that caucus.

This will keep some wavering conservatives (Sununu, e.g.) in line, and allow us a framework for replacing liberal Republicans, RINOs.

When we get to 51 Conservative Senators, perhaps then the Pubbies won't be so pathetic. Right now, we don't have more than 40, and that's the systemic problem with the Senate. In the House, there are far fewer liberal Pubbies, and they have far fewer ways to screw things up.

[Evolution]

Every move the reps make is vilified and trashed by the MSM.

It is always vilified and trashed by the press even when they were in minority. Stop making exucuses for failure in GOP leadership.

[The Right Stuff]

Steyn is the best - succint and perfectly phrased!

[hosepipe]

[ the sewer of the Oil-for-Food scandal and the attempts by Kofi Annan to castrate the investigation into it demonstrate yet again that there is no problem in the world today that can't be made worse by letting the U.N. have a hand in solving it ]

OUCH!....

[ Who needs capuchin monkeys in the Senate when GOP squishes are so eager to tap-dance for Democrat organ grinders ]

double OUCH!....

[ontos-on]

I am sorry tkathy, but you are all wet. The republicans will have no majority if they don not act aggressively and smart and to hell withthe MSM. If they are trying to please Maureen Dowd and the rest of hte sisters at the NYT, tell them to forget it.

Perhaps the GOP senators are getting just your kind of advice from idiot consultants. Then that is really the problem. These people were elected to confront these obstructionists not to bend to them. Shut them up, answer them back and get on with it.

[Zack Nguyen]

Quietly, privately, emphatically, telling Chafee that he will face a HOTLY contested primary, and telling Voinovich and Hagel that NOTHING they want from Congress will be agreed to -- until they get back on the reservation.

I agree completely. This isn't a tactic that should be used everyday, but in this case, it should have been used weeks ago.

[nothingnew]

Being villified by a press sinking in trust and circulation isn't the problem it was in 1989. If they find it hard to govern as a Majority because a discredited press calls them mean names, they won't be the majority for much longer.

BUMP!!!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Miss Marple]

Well, trying to get Lugar to run that committee with some competence would be a good trick, even if they started a few weeks ago. Lugar is mad because he flubbed as a presidential candidate, and he is miffed because now that we have a Republican Secretary of State he doesn't get called for his expert opinion any more. I am also convinced (he is my senator) that he is borderline senile.

I am still steamed at his sniping at the President earlier this year.

This is a great column, and spot on. I think I will send a copy to Lugar's office, with the appropriate passage circled for his edification.

[kitkat]

***This makes it very hard for them to act in an aggressive manner. The reps must not jeopardize their senate majority and the dims know it.***

Sorry to disagree with you, tkathy, but I believe that about 80 percent of this country's voters are totally unaware of what is going on in the Senate. The Senate Republicans NEED to be strong to get votes. Then they need to crow about sending a strong man to the U.N. to protect this country's interests. And now is the time for them to do it with the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in the news.

[spodefly]

Brilliant. This should be mandatory reading for every one of the Republicans in Congress. Steyn nails it, and them.

[CyberAnt]

"The USAID worker in Kyrgyzstan alleges that she was harassed -- not sexually harassed -- harassed by Mr. Bolton."


And .. this whole story has been totally debunked - and I'm very disappointed that Mark didn't have that information when he wrote his article. The worker's boss and her section chief have both discredited her story. And .. one of the reasons she was FIRED - was because of HER TREATMENT OF OTHER EMPLOYEES. Amazing! And this is the person the dems have chosen to prove Bolton mistreats his employees. Eagleberger's opinion differs about Bolton.

And .. Mark also neglected the fact that 94 former co-workers have signed a petition supporting Bolton - along with 5 former Secretaries of State [ next to 2 malcontents put up by the dems ] - and still Voinovich couldn't decide if Bolton was okay ..??

And .. I'm not counting Powell, who has finally shown his true colors and stabbed the President in the back issuing less than friendly statements about Bolton to Chaffee and Hagel. Why couldn't he just abstain? - Since he obviously had an idealogical dispute with Bolton.

[NutCrackerBoy]

The rap against John Bolton is that he gets annoyed with do-nothing bureaucrats. If that's enough to disqualify you from government service, then 70 percent of citizens who've visited the DMV in John Kerry's Massachusetts are ineligible. -Mark Steyn

Actually, the Republican governors in Massachusetts have turned around the DMV, which is now a pleasure to visit. And I only wish the bureaucrats in Massachusetts did nothing.

[technochick99]

Steyn absolutely rocks!

[netmilsmom]

Oh this is a good one.
You will come to love Mark Steyn.