Posted on 05/13/2005 7:00:06 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Maybe, but I see it that this is all coming together quite nicely.
This is the very reason that they do not want Bolton, a house cleaning for the UN is underway and Coleman is revealing all of the corruptness to weaken any UN objection to the fumigating.
These people are absolutely childish.
They still think that they are in power, and that they control things when they don't.
It's up to us voters to show them the door.
The Repubs in Congress let them act like that. The Repubs have no backbone!
So is this a philabuster or not?
After all this, a single lib can just call a timeout and "put a hold on the nomination" -- WTF does that mean?
Aw...this ploy has been around for several minutes now, and to resist it would be going against seconds and seconds of Senate history and could interfere with this asinine branch of Government's ability to confirm over and over that it is the only mistake our fore Fathers made when designing our government.
That buzzard gagging stench that hovers over DC, is from those feet of decay-our fore bears only mistake that is capable of causing the death of this Republic.
From NRO:
Hold Off
A Senate insider writes in with some additional information on Barbara Boxer’s “hold” of John Bolton’s nomination:
“Traditionally, holds are placed in order to signify an intention to filibuster a nominee or piece of legislation. Any Senator can place a hold but it is the majority leader's prerogative to honor the "hold." I'd bet on Frist ignoring Senator Boxer's hold.”
LOLOL!
Fred Barnes was all fired up on FOX's panel on Hume's shows last night on that.
He said there was no reason to delay the vote for Bolton, and it should be brought up on Tuesday. Putting it off only further endangers the nomination.
Sadly, so have a lot of Republicans.
In the House, it used to be possible for members to sign on to the hold list secretly, and it was impossible to find out who was on the list for a bill. Inhofe pressured the House to change this procedure.
Sorry for the misdirection.
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered reported, without recommendation, the nominations of John Robert Bolton , of Maryland, to be the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the U.S. Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, and to be U.S. Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during his tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations.Thanks for that. Pryor was voted out too (see the "Business Meeting" entry following the entry recited above), and Pryor's name is on the Exec calendar. There must be either a timing issue (i.e., Bolton's confirmation came later in the day) or some other hurdle that caused Bolton's name to be absent from the Exec Calendar.Senate Daily Journal Page D476 <-- Link
Timing and or printing schedule most likely. However Frist still has to decide upon when to bring the nomination to the floor. Who knows when that will be. His job is a lot like herding cats, imo.
Glad you liked it (RNC add regarding the 'party of no' (for those who haven't seen it))
It seemed to fit.
I've been on the same train for a long time. The best way to get rid of the filibuster is to let the Dems stage one. And let it go on and on and on and on and on until the public screams for action against it.
A filibuster over Bolton would in many respects be ideal because the dividing issue could be cast as support for the UN status quo vs. a strong message of change. The Dems would shoot themselves in the foot again.
Maybe the answer is for us to take up a collection and send Voinivich 50 roses too -- on behalf of DU :-)
Don;t miss today's The American Thinker.com piece today about how the NYT fudged the credentials of its non-expert, psych expert who slimmed Bolton on its op ed page.
or G. Gordon Liddy.. or Ann Coulter.. or Harry Browne libertarian.. or (jeese theres so many).. raise the bar.. Immediatly appoint another seconds after their denied..
Force multiple denials as many as possible.. with news conferences of course.. to highlight.. the charade and Mirage' of the democrats.. The political fallout would be good.. The Senate and the President COULD make the democrats EAT this grandstanding.. RAW.. a force feed could make the democrats goosey to do this in the future.. The democrats are basically Barney Fife with media attention.. they should be very easy to dis-credit.. Played right.. pity most republicans are not very far from democrats ideologically.. or they WOULD DO THIS...
Solution: U.S. withdraws from UN, resulting in its collapse and no need for Ambassador. Turn UN building into condos for former diplomats who drink their tea with one uplifted pinky. Surely they have stolen enough money by now to be able to afford a Manhattan condo!
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