[shhrubbery!]

Last night I heard Vaughn Ververs (reporter for 'The Hill') say that a filibuster or hold on a CABINET-LEVEL appointee of the president was unprecedented.

Of course Barbara Boxer's level of venom and vitriol is unprecedented too.

I know Boxer has a 'safe' seat, but Ververs seemed to think it would be extremely risky for Dims to block Bolton at this point.

[penowa]

I have no reason to doubt Ververs. I thought this was a first, but what do I know? I'm sure they are busy over at the DUmp taking up a collection again to send Barbara Boxer another fifty dozen roses for this performance. I just wish the Republicans would start acting like the majority so that the looney tunes Democrats would realize they are the minority and no longer make the rules. This is just another sign that (besides Voinovich's performance) SOMEBODY really doesn't want Bolton to see what is going on at the UN. I suspect there is even more than we are presently aware of.