Posted on 05/13/2005 10:20:09 AM PDT by FlyLow
* The vote to send the nomination of John Bolton to the full Senate was 10-8 -- party line. But the story is better than that. And worse than that.
* Mr. Bolton has a reputation of being a tough guy to work for. As I said on Fox yesterday morning: "If being a thug to your staff is a disqualification for holding public office in this town, our parking problems are over."
* There is a theory in Washington that in order to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations you have to be just the nicest darned person ever.
* I have an alternative theory: I want the US Representative to the United Nations to be a prickly S.O.B. (and I don't mean Senate Office Building).
* I want the US Representative to remind the Ambassadors from Upper Iguana and South Salamander that the people of the United States are footing the bill to the tune of about one out of every five dollars that it takes to run the UN. When their governments want to relieve the American people of some of that burden they can have a bigger say.
* I want the US Representative to hold Kofi Annan's feet to the fire and make him tell us how it came to pass that billions of dollars in the Oil-for-Palaces program he was supposed to oversee were, instead, overlooked.
* I want the US Representative to tell Paul Volcker to take a hike when he tries to deny the very same US Senate which is considering Mr. Bolton, the right to call one of his investigators as a witness at a hearing on UN operations.
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AMEN!
AMEN!
AMEN!
I heard you the first time. . .
;-)
Bullshit!*
The most memorable Ambassadors to the U.N. have been giants like Adlai Stevenson, Patrick Moynahan, Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
Read Moynihan's book, A Dangerous Place for specifics. And he was a Democrat.
* http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351575/posts
Bingo!
BUMP!
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