This clip from "Airplane" always pops into my head when I hear him drone on and on....
Posted on 05/12/2005 7:03:13 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
ON CAPITOL HILL Bolton Vote in Committee The Senate Foreign Relations Committee conducts a debate and vote on the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Chair Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Ranking Member Joseph Biden (D-DE) continue a review of the nominee, based on issues raised at the committee's April 19 business meeting. 10AM-3:30PM ET ON C-SPAN3
Primary voters will be watching
PRESIDENT BUSH and U.S. Senate Republicans have the far better case in the matter of Democrats refusing to allow judges to be voted on in a straightforward, up-or-down fashion. The problem is that Republicans aren't very good at public relations "spin" — and the Democrats have a ready ally in much of Big Media.
But if the Republicans don't wise up and have the guts to stop the Democrats' current misuse of the filibuster, they will find that a President Hillary Clinton and her pals will have no such problem in suddenly "discovering" that the Founding Fathers never intended judges or other Presidential appointments to be blocked in this manner.
The filibuster — the rules of which have in fact been changed (by Democrats) over the years — has been used and was intended to be used to slow or block legislation. Sometimes, it has been used disgracefully so. Civil rights legislation was blocked for decades by anti-black Southern senators.
But only when George Bush came to office four years ago did Democrats in the Senate use the threat of filibuster to block judicial nominations from getting before the full Senate for a simple majority vote.
This has to be one of the great and most shameless legal loophole flimflams in our history. With courts being overrun by judicial activists, the voters' only recourse is to elect a President and Senate that will appoint judges who won't try to re-make the law.
To let a small group of extremist Democrats block even a vote on those appointments with this legalistic trick is outrageous. We are quite sure the Presidential Primary voters of New Hampshire will be watching carefully to see how Republican senators act on this crucial matter.
I before E except after C.
I know its to soon for him to think about it but watch John Thune.
John Bolton is the "best man" for US, and that seems to be what's worrying the crap out of him.
yup , very well said ,...I honor brevity
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Thanks for the welcome.
BTW, I love "Ragged old flag" too.
The only thing we are lacking is for the Code Pink/Medea Benjamin crowd to show up with shouted accusations from the Larry Flynt sewer. I will bet they show up before this is all over, so that those accusations can get on the TV shows without any senator dirtying his hands with them.
Amen and say it again
He isn't on the air in very much of the country... and he ought to be! He's integrating being a reporter (using his contacts etc) with being a talk show host. And intriguing approach.
Surely an understatement.
This clip from "Airplane" always pops into my head when I hear him drone on and on....
That is all. :-)
I missed some of this stuff ....what is Vonocich (whatever his face) gonna do?
good to see you posting again Ivan!
Well, WHY IN THE SAM HILL did that Pub go along with having the damning accusations that Reich made against the RATS be stricken from the record??
There may be OFF links on both sides of the aisle. Or in the case of the Pubs, just the FBI files like Pukin Dog asserts.
He can vote against Bolton without all that personal trashing. MOO.
Seriously, it's because the people who bought the democratic party (MoveOn and the others) tell them when to get upset, and provide them with the opposition research. The democrat senators simply do what they are told.
There is little difference between nominees that they say good things about and nominees they say bad things about.
Do you think there is a single person in a position of power for which you couldn't find a dozen subordinates who say they were treated poorly by them?
Is there a single person in our government who HASN'T questioned the people providing the intelligence?
The democrats march in lockstep.
It is quite reasonable that some republicans would not like the approach of the president or his nominee toward the UN, just like it would be reasonable to expect some democrats to support it (and they do).
I've noticed that the Democrats do a much better job at keeping their "mavericks" off of any committee that does real work. Where are the two Nelsons? Where is Leiberman?
Of course, the "foriegn relations committee" is where I think the republicans typically wanted to dump their "moderates", where they wouldn't hurt anybody. Imagine the shock that a republican president would take the UN seriously.
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