BOLTON HEARING LIVE ON C-SPAN 3

C_SPAN 3 ^ | July 27, 2006

[Ooh-Ah]

BOLTON HEARING LIVE ON C-SPAN 3

[Bahbah]

I really, really just love it when you are on hand for these things.

[Peach]

Feingold: You told press you didn't see why we should expand process in E. Timor. Next day the US voted for a resolution for a presence there.

Bolton: Don't know what you're quoting from. I said I didn't think the current difficulties had to do with the earlier UN presence and struggle for.... (couldn't capture)

I addressed the historical circumstances, not the current circumstances where we're trying to determine appropriate UN response to violence there.

[Peach]

Bolton: If you could show me my quotation, I'd be happy to respond further.

Feingold: I'll get it for you. hehehehehe

[Ooh-Ah]

WOW:

...accumulated inertia... at the UN...

It says it all!

[Carolinamom]

Bolton: "...the accumulated inertia that we have at the UN..."

PERFECT description!

[ohioWfan]

Voinovich up.

[pollyannaish]

Sorry to barge in here, but it's going well?

I hate being on the West Coast sometimes.

[FreedomNeocon]

WEEPY is up

[ohioWfan]

It was a BEAUTIFUL slam. WTG, Bolton!

[Peach]

Thanks.

Bolton: We've been in close touch with Australians especially to be sure our policy is closely coordinated with their troops on the ground and I assume we'd want to stay in close touch for them.

Voinovich: Thank you for your service to the UN. You serve in a challenging time. Our president has more on his plate than any president since FDR.

[ohioWfan]

Weepy has reformed when it comes to Bolton..........and I am GLAD!

[FreedomNeocon]

Lets see if he can redeem himself *a bit* from this


George V. Voinovich - Republican (Ohio)


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During Bolton's confirmation hearing Bolton could not get out of committee for a vote because of THIS "republican" and these are a few of his words as he broke into tears... literally

"But what message are we sending to the world community when in the same breath we have sought to appoint an ambassador to the United Nations who himself has been accused of being arrogant, of not listening to his friends, of acting unilaterally, of bullying those who do not have the ability to properly defend themselves? These are the very characteristics that we’re trying to dispel in the world community.

It is my concern that the confirmation of John Bolton would send a contradictory and negative message to the world community about U.S. intentions. I’m afraid that his confirmation will tell the world that we’re not dedicated to repairing our relationship or working as a team, but that we believe only someone with sharp elbows can deal properly with the international community.

And to those who say a vote against John Bolton is against reform of the U.N., I say, nonsense. There are many other people who are qualified to go to the United Nations that can get the job done for our country. Frankly, I’m concerned that Mr. Bolton would make it more difficult for us to achieve the badly needed reforms to this outdated institution. I believe that there could even be more obstacles to reform if Mr. Bolton is sent to the United Nations than if he were another candidate.

Another reason I believe Mr. Bolton is not the best candidate for the job is his tendency to act without regard for the views of others and without respect for the chain of command.

Who is to say that Mr. Bolton will not continue to stray off message as ambassador to the U.N.?

Who is to say he will not hurt rather than help U.S. relations with the international community and our desire to reform the U.N.?

I have concerns about Mr. Bolton’s ability to inspire and lead a team so that it can be as effective as possible in completing the important task before him.

And I’m not the only one.

There is no doubt that Mr. Bolton has serious deficiencies in the areas that are critical to be a good ambassador.

Mr. Chairman, I have to say that after poring over the hundreds of pages of testimony and — you know, I wasn’t here for those hearings, but I did my penance, I read all of it — I believe that John Bolton would have been fired if he’d worked for a major corporation. This is not the behavior of a true leader who upholds the kind of democracy that President Bush is seeking to promote globally. This is not the behavior that should be endorsed as the face of the United States to the world community and the United Nations. Rather, Mr. Chairman, it is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.

We must recognize that to be successful in this war, one of our most important tools is public diplomacy.

After hours of deliberation, telephone calls, personal conversations, reading hundreds of pages of transcripts and asking for guidance from above, I have come to the determination that the United States can do better than John Bolton."

[Bahbah]

Weepy should read the Koran.

[mewzilla]

Yeah, let's hear it for the UN....

[Fudd Fan]

Sounds like someone took Voinovitch to the woodsheed and beat some sense into him good.

[Peach]

Very, very well, polly.

V: We have Islamic extremists who have hijacked the Koran. I was pleased PM Malaki said that killing women and children wasn't consistent with the Koran. I'd think all of us that we'd pray the Holy Spirit guides our president (words to that effect - misssed some of it)

V: I'd be happy to talk with my colleagues about the time I've spent talking with Bolton and for my colleagues to rely on an article in the NYT to judge Bolton is not fair.

Anyone representing the US at the UN and I congratulate you on your performance and what you've done.

[Bahbah]

Voinovich scolds his collegues for using a NYT article to judge Bolton. (The article having been written specifically to give them SOMETHING to say since they have nothing else.)

[Christian4Bush]

It was Major Owens; I think he's admitted it and said he didn't know that she would protest. Anybody here who believes that?

Owens is the Congresscritter who some years ago said that Americans threw 5 million slaves off slave ships and that the sharks still follow that path of blood.

Morning, Peach. I KNEW you'd be on the job this A.M.!

Kinda reminds me of the movie "Spaceballs", with Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) talking with one of his officers:

Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Maj. A**hole: I did, sir. He's my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Col. Sandurz: He's an A**hole, sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that. What's his name?
Col. Sandurz: That is his name, sir. A**hole, Major A**hole.
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Col. Sandurz: He's an A**hole too, sir. Gunner's Mate, First Class, Philip A**hole.
Dark Helmet: How many A**holes we got on this ship, any how?
Everyone: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by A**holes. (shuts helmet)
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, A**holes!

(ok, it's a stretch, but it's probably the only way I could call this "enabler" a major a**hole with comedic reference.)

[Clock King]

He's spouting grand sounding words with no idea of what the Koran says about un-believers.

[Peach]

Hi, Christian. ROFL. The leftists are FROM outer space so that analogy is quite appropriate.