[Gondring]

What a mess we now have in Washington. thanks, Dems, for putting your politics above our country.

[Rosemont]

"That dripping sound was the lifeblood draining out of the neocon movement."

Chris Matthews?

[RedCell]

Oh, man! And I just ate, dang it!

Gee, no slant there. Nope. Nothin' to see. Move along.

[coconutt2000]

Neoconservatives dreamed that the flexing of American muscle in Iraq would cause the world to fall in line behind U.S. leadership; instead, the administration is struggling to build consensus at the United Nations on Iran and North Korea and discouraging any whisper of unilateralism or preemptive military strikes. Yep. The only people acting exactly as we expect them to are our enemies... They hate us, and they're going to fight us.

Where did we fail? We were too generous with who we called friend.

[Ooh-Ah]

I just searched google news to see how the hearing was reported. NOTHING like the Free Republic running commentary BOLTON HEARING LIVE ON C-SPAN 3.

Want to see if the MSM puts up the Kerry Q & A!

[lonestar67]

What hilarious wishful thinking by Dana!

Every neo con I have talked to today has talked about what a hilarious hoot the hearings were.

Bolton was playing chess

The Senate was as usual playing checkers-- what a bunch of incompetent goons.

[Prime Choice]

Neoconservatives dreamed that the flexing of American muscle in Iraq would cause the world to fall in line behind U.S. leadership; instead, the administration is struggling to build consensus at the United Nations on Iran and North Korea and discouraging any whisper of unilateralism or preemptive military strikes.

The fool who authored this pap obviously thinks if we had left Saddam in power, the U.N. would actually be serious about taking on Iran and North Korea.

What a positively ignorant jackass.

[denydenydeny]

"This place sure gone crazy."

[AnnaZ]

Three hours into the dreary and desultory proceedings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a torrent of water began to pour from light fixtures in the ceiling, creating a waterfall between the nominee and the senators.
[...]
As it happens, the cascade provided a fitting coda for a hearing in which both sides seemed to be suggesting that the administration's foreign policy -- at least the one unveiled during President Bush's first term -- was all washed up.

Behold. Your hero. Dana Milbank. Doing what he does best. Reporting without bias or spin.

[12th_Monkey]

I watched the rerun until Dodd spoke (lincoln chaffee almost done me in), I became ill and changed channels. I couldn't stand listening to anymore RATS.
DemocRATS, the party of nothing

[The Electrician]

Leave it to Milbank to paint a pipe dream of a caricature of an imaginary "neocon agenda" and then to declare it dead. Does he believe that wishful thinking will make it happen?

[bray]

He's speaking Senatese, he doesn't believe any of that garbage.

Pray for W and Our Troops
Shalom Israel

[msnimje]

Dana Milbanks is a complete idiot, still.

[msnimje]

[msnimje]

[Peach]

Gee, Milbank didn't include what an ass the democrats made of themselves.

First, Obama made an idiot out of himself. I'd gone out but read on the thread that he kept insisting that Bolton said something and Bolton kept insisting he didn't. It seems the intellectual lightweight named Obama doesn't know the difference between a statement from Josh Bolten and John Bolton.

Then Kerry - oh - I wish you'd heard Kerry. At one point Kerry was mentioning something about the North Korean resolution and Kerry kept telling Bolton it didn't mean what Bolton said it meant. This is the verbatim exchange:

Kerry: No it didn't (mean that).

Bolton: Yes it did.

Kerry: No it didn't.

Bolton: Yes it did

Kerry: No it didn't

Bolton: Yes it did

Kerry: It did?

Bolton: It did.

I was on the floor laughing so hard I got hiccups. Then Kerry said (about North Korea) "Why don't you do bilateral negotiations the way the Clinton administration did?" And Bolton replied: "Very poorly, I'd say. They violated the agreement from the very start". Dead silence from Kerry.

[lawnguy]

Leave it to Milbank to paint a pipe dream of a caricature of an imaginary "neocon agenda" and then to declare it dead.

Neocon agenda is Washington code for pro Israel/Jew agenda. Just more leftist anti-jew lingo, right off Kos.

Nary a mention of Obama or Kerry and their idiotic performance today. Bolton waxed them both.

[Pox]

This is simply the latest iteration of the DNC talking down our current administration and their current 'spin' of how they want to define our current foreign policy.

There have been many different spins on what we were attempting to achieve by taking down Saddam, and each spin by the DNC/MSM has been put out in the media in a way that does not reflect the stated goals of the administration. It seems they are still searching for a negative sound bite that hits hard and is effective with the majority of voters, but they can't quite get the reaction that they want.

[Gimme]

"What a mess we now have in Washington. thanks, Dems, for putting your politics above our country."

Yeah it's disgusting.

[HawaiianGecko]

LOL, so the senate leaks.  What else is new?

 

[Lancey Howard]

He said he "unequivocally" thought the United States should pay its full U.N. dues. He said there should "absolutely" be a "viable, contiguous Palestinian state." And, after aides distributed his prepared testimony to reporters, they returned with a revised copy that excised a sentence defending the Israeli military action in Lebanon.

Not that I believe what Dana Milbank writes, but if this is even somewhat accurate, then maybe I've had the wrong idea about Bolton all along. If this is true, then screw him - - I don't care what happens to him.