Posted on 12/13/2001 4:25:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Argentina has a debt crisis, guerrilla movements are growing in Colombia and Peru, and on Monday Venezuela was all but shut down because of a nationwide protest against the creeping dictatorship of President Hugo Chavez. The success story that was once Latin America is unraveling by the day, thanks in part to a lack of U.S. leadership.
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Bush nominee deserves better than old grudges [Excerpt]As America embarks on a long-term war against international terrorism, it is essential that President Bush have his foreign policy team in place. Unfortunately, one Democratic senator is still fighting the Cold War and is settling old ideological scores by blocking Senate action on a key State Department nominee.
Otto Reich was nominated on July 12 to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric Affairs. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has not even bothered to schedule Fa confirmation hearing for Reich, and has no plans to do so. The reasons have nothing to do with Reich's competence or qualifications, and everything to do with Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's affinity for Cuba's Fidel Castro and the communist Sandanista regime in Nicaragua. [End Excerpt]
Exactly! The Senate has become a laughing stock, but under Democratic control, it's a brick tied around our necks.
I tend to disagree with Strom Thurmond on his earlier positions but the man is a pillar of integrity and rectitude and qualifies as a statesman.
Every day we are looking more like ancient Rome--
Cincinnatus mortus est quidam Caesar--Cinncinatus is dead where is Caesar
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Just don't give Lott the the leadership post.
You didn't like "Vacant" Lott?
At least a vacant lot has possiblities. I like to think of Trent as, "Thanks for nothing" Lott.
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