When he popped up that day in committee after being absent to screw up the vote on Bolton, I started to wonder what he was up to. Then the day they did vote, he didn't just vote, but trashed Bolton and said he would vote against him on the floor. That was the day I asked my husband why Voinovich would not want Bolton at the UN just like most of the Democrats who can't afford for someone like him to see what is really going on there. After that whining and nearly blubbering speech today, I'm convinced that Bolton, if confirmed, is going to be in a position to expose Voinovich or someone he is beholden to. That pathetic display he put on today was not because he thought Bolton was the wrong man to be our UN ambassador. There is something more personal involved here. Was he somehow involved in the O f F scandal?
That bothered me too. Voinovich is chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and on the Foreign Relations Committee. So who knows what his motivations were. But a Republican in Ohio needs the Dems to get elected, especially Cuyohoga county.
My sentiments,exactly.To paraphrase the Bard himself: "Methinks the a**hole doth protest too much". I think he may be afraid that he and many others were on the take from Mr Hussein. Bonior, McDermott and Crazy Maddy the Bag Lady leap to mind.