Posted on 03/08/2005 6:56:41 PM PST by ChicagoRighty
Comments by Robert Novak on President Bush's nomination for UN Ambassador are telling and a good place to get started.
... President Bush's appointment of John Bolton as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was a huge surprise. It is the clearest sign yet that Bush is taking off his gloves and preparing to make life miserable for the UN establishment.
1) Bolton, the current undersecretary of State for arms control, seemed earmarked for oblivion during Bush's second term. He is no John Danforth.
2) Bolton's nomination to State in 2001 was greeted by Democratic apoplexy. He was decried then as a dangerous ideologue who would "dismantle" world efforts at arms control. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) called his a "terrible nomination," and Senate Democrats, one after another, rose and recited Bolton quotations they found unpalatable and outrageous.
3) Among Bolton's better quotations: "The Europeans can be sure that America's days as a well-bred doormat for EU political and military protections are coming to an end." Also: "While treaties may be politically or even morally binding, they are not legally obligatory." More: "There is no such thing as the United Nations." And finally: "If the UN secretariat building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."
4) Bolton is a fearless movement conservative who, as undersecretary of State, sat at the head table at last year's 50th anniversary banquet of the American Conservative Union. It is difficult to imagine an appointment that would be more offensive to congressional liberals, to Washington's diplomatic class, or even to moderate Republicans. Yet Bolton's nomination to State in 2001 was confirmed by a Senate vote of 57-43. Five of the seven Senate Democrats who voted to confirm Bolton in 2001 are still in the Senate now.
5) Bolton's nomination comes just days after UN observers shouted, jeered, and catcalled when the U.S. delegate to a UN convention on women, Ellen Sauerbrey, attempted to speak. Sauerbrey was pushing to prevent the UN's "Beijing plus ten" conference from being seen as establishing an internationally recognized right to abortion.
Bush and rove are my kinda guys.
"Bush and Rove have decided to force the Dems into madness with appointments that will drive them to blocking appointments"
I think you're correct. Novak's statement, "It is difficult to imagine an appointment that would be more offensive to congressional liberals ...".
This is so IN YOUR FACE - I just love it!!
"lots of fun things in our future"
Absolutely!!
Looking very promising by his quotes.
This will make the Demorats even more manic. Bush is investing the political capital he talked about three months ago, and isn't putting it in T Bills either. It's more like Stock Index Futures.
Talk about a dream team: Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Wolfowitz with Giuliani and Jeb on the bench.
I saw it on Fox. They were showing part of it - H&C maybe. I don't remember the group that was doing it.
As for the UN, I've said this before - I would very much like to see them gone. Another organization, or complex of treaties, is called for. But the UN is a corrupt organization in the control of the worst nation-states on earth, ALL of whom desperately despise the freedom which the US and its allies defend. CUT THE UN LOOSE! NOW!
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