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Bolton Unlikely to Win Senate Approval
AP ^ | Nov 9 2006

Posted on 11/09/2006 12:57:57 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort

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To: Leroy S. Mort

How weak is Bush? He did more for Chaffee, than any other Senator for this election, and yet he can't even get Chaffee to do something for him.


21 posted on 11/09/2006 1:04:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: rightinthemiddle

Yeah, this would be a really nice time to do something to get us back up and soldiering on, wouldn't it. Unfortunately, I fear we conservatives are being held responsible for everything and there will be no relief in site for some time.


22 posted on 11/09/2006 1:04:36 PM PST by ichabod1 ("For make benefit of Our Glorious Socializt Revolution")
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To: 2banana

If there is one bright spot on all this it is that this idiot is no longer in the Senate.


23 posted on 11/09/2006 1:05:26 PM PST by when the time is right
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To: ConservativeMind

Chaffee is preventing him from coming to the floor. he has a hold on him.


24 posted on 11/09/2006 1:05:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Honestly, has there ever been a Republican who was give so much - money, support, etc. and who so viciously STABBED us in the back, time after time??


25 posted on 11/09/2006 1:05:41 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: edpc

After their victory it would set a poor tone to do so. Bolton has done a good job in handling the North Korea nuclear issue. The hard speaking, bar room rough-neck that we know is better than some soft-spoken dandy we don't know in the current geopolitical environment.


26 posted on 11/09/2006 1:05:53 PM PST by middie
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To: SmithL
I just wish we could have kept the Senate without him.

It's interesting, if all the races had turned out the same but Chafee won, the GOP would have 50 seats and could organize with Cheney's tie-breaking vote. Except you know that Chafee would have waited until spring just like Jeffords, then he'd say he couldn't tolerate the extremism of the Republican Party, and he'd switch to the Democrats.

That would have led to a bunch of newspaper articles and TV show appearances focusing on the evils of the Republican Party. Which is exactly what happened in the Jeffords case.

So it's just as well that the Republicans won 49 seats rather than 50 with Chafee being among the 50. It would still be 49 seats by some point next year.

27 posted on 11/09/2006 1:06:12 PM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: quidnunc

How can they do that?


28 posted on 11/09/2006 1:06:15 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Yeah he's "pivotal" all right. Pivot man is more like it.


29 posted on 11/09/2006 1:06:43 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
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To: Leroy S. Mort
A major reason the GOP lost: RINOs
30 posted on 11/09/2006 1:06:51 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: nickcarraway

"How weak is Bush?"

There are never any paybacks.

Just ask France.

Chaffee slapped Bush across the face without fear.


31 posted on 11/09/2006 1:06:53 PM PST by Shermy
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To: middie

I agree. The way I understand it, Bush can recess appoint him again, but he can't be paid. I wonder if a Bolton fund is legal.....


32 posted on 11/09/2006 1:07:39 PM PST by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Good God! Bubba Clintoon will be replacin' John Bolton. Halloweenie will be comin' early.


33 posted on 11/09/2006 1:08:41 PM PST by lilylangtree
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Frankly, I was not unhappy to see Chaffee go down. What a weasel. Not worth a bucket of warm spit.


34 posted on 11/09/2006 1:10:29 PM PST by RichardW
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To: KarlInOhio

If I'm not mistaken people like Dodd and Harkin are lovers of Ortega and his ilk and Bolton rattled some cages way back when vis a vis the South American commies. Now I could be confusing Bolton with Otto Reich but I think the principle is the same - the bad guys hate people who stand up to bad guys.


35 posted on 11/09/2006 1:11:06 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Time for some lame duck Congress legislation. Force him through.


36 posted on 11/09/2006 1:11:35 PM PST by zendari
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Chafee confirming everything ever suspected about him.


37 posted on 11/09/2006 1:12:03 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Bolton is an embarrasment to the democrats because he's accomplished more in 3 months at the UN, than any of the dem nominated ones have in their lifetimes.

But a corrupt den of theives style UN (Pre-Bolton) is a ally to the democrats and thats what they are going to push for. I bet they already have some liberal islam appeasing pacifist they plan to place in there.


38 posted on 11/09/2006 1:12:40 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

And so the long, slow march to dhimmitude begins.... not with a bang, but with a whimper.


39 posted on 11/09/2006 1:12:48 PM PST by StatenIsland
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To: Leroy S. Mort

If the Donks want to kill the nomination of a tough-talking Ambassador to the UN, we should make them kill it. We should not save them the trouble by making it go away.

The thing is, an awful lot of Americans think that haveing a tough-talking Ambassador to the UN is a heck of a good idea. If the Donks want to be Milquetoasts, they should pay the political price.


40 posted on 11/09/2006 1:12:54 PM PST by gridlock (My Prognosticator Unit is busted, and stuck on "ROSY". Take what I say with a grain of salt...)
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