So much for the New Age of Senate Moderation.
Such harmony in the Senate..... How wonderful!
Frist can stomp on this new third party--The McCain Backstabbers--by getting the Bolton vote through. I hope he does so as a way of slapping down opposition, but I'm afraid he'll do it to preserve his presidential hopes.
Because Bolton would serve only until 2008 (unlike lifetime judges), Bush could easily recess appoint him.
So much for the "trust" the 7 RINO back-stabbing traitors were talking about. It hasn't even been a week, and the RATs are back to their standard operating procedures. Guess they are just asserting their "minority rights". As if we couldn't see this coming. Thanks DeRINO, McQueeg, et al. -- for NOTHING!!!!
In case anyone was wondering what the so-called compromise was worth...
Will one person in the media report that Dodd hates Bolton because Bolton called out his buddy, Fidel Castro? Will Chris Wallace ask this? That Dodd supports a murdering, communist tyrant?
yadayadayadayada
If I was Bush I'd stop all these games with Bolton and simply recess-appoint him at the first opportunity. It's not a lifetime appointment or anything, and Bush only needs him there for three+ years or so.
If the "gang of 14" sticks together I don't see how this maneuver by Dodd is going to work. The moderates agreement does not prevent some senators from acting like a-holes, which it looks like Dodd is doing.
Would this parliamentary maneuver be, per chance, a filibuster?
Compromise really works :(
I think the process should be changed so that if the Senate doesn't vote within one year on a nominee, it is assumed that consent is given.
In addition Dodd wanted the FBI to report on the truthfulness on a rumor relating to an incident in Bolton's 3rd grade class suggesting that Bolton had fraudulently used a hall pass.
Please, please, please dems, filibuster Bolton. Filibuster everyone and everything. Please do this. I want to see the look on the faces of the "gang of seven" when they see what they get for compromising with the democrats.
Get this "gang of seven" and get this now. The democrats believe that they should rule by right. They refuse to accept the result of the election and so long as you continue to feed that monster, it will continue to feed, in turn, on you. Here endeth the lesson.
Sucker-punched.
Chris Dodd, like Tom Jeffords and John McCain, was once a RINO too.
RINOS are always obnoxious.
Oh, let's wait for the RINOs to set up yet another group to come up with a cave in on this issue. It should happen shortly.
Cloture will pass. The vote on Bolton will occur.
Senator Dodd is going to subpoena Mr. Bolton’s mother in order to find out if he was a colicky baby.
BTTT
Is Sen Voinovich afraid that Bolton will do things that lose business for Voinovich, Needles and Dalton, a firm for which both his son and his former Chief of staff hold the titles of MGRM?From:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410932/posts?page=33#33Here is more on Hollingsworth (Sen Voinovich's former Chief of Staff) who works for a company associated with VND and who seems to be an officer for VND
The United States Enrichment Corp., a company that enriches uranium for use in nuclear power plants, has hired the firm Compass Consulting Group to track energy-policy developments in Congress. The lobbyists working the account include Ted Hollingsworth, a former chief of staff to Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
George Voinovich (R-OH): "The son of Ohio Senator George Voinovich has teamed up with three public affairs veterans to open a new public affairs and lobbying agency. The firm, Voinovich, Needles, and Dalton (VND) will be based in Columbus, with offices in Akron, Jacksonville, Washington, DC, and $$Beijing$$. ... George F. Voinovich's partners in the venture are Thomas Needles, the founder of Ohio-based public affairs firm Statecraft; Jim Dalton, founder of Jacksonville's Dalton Agency; and Dalton Agency VP of PR Michael Munz." April 16, 2004.