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White House Fears GOP Senator Will Kill Bolton Nomination
Human Events Online ^ | April 18, 2005 | Chris Field

Posted on 04/18/2005 12:40:14 PM PDT by hinterlander

Hagel May Jump Ship on Bush's Pick for UN Ambassodor -- Human Events has learned that the White House has become increasingly nervous about the confirmation of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

As a new week begins on Capitol Hill, conservatives are beginning to worry that the Democrats' smear campaign against John Bolton might be working.

With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee set to vote on the nomination on Tuesday, Republicans now fear that they might not have the votes to get Bolton out of committee and onto the Senate floor.

Liberal GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) has long been a question mark for the Senate leadership. Now Majority Leader Frist must add fellow presidential hopeful Sen. Chuck Hagel (R.-Neb.) to his list of possible turncoats.

Sources say that the White House is taking seriously reports that Hagel is considering a vote against the President's pick to represent the U.S. at the United Nations in committee.

The Los Angeles Times today reported that Hagel "suggested" he might oppose the Bolton nomination because he is "troubled" by the nominee's "method of operation" and that he is "concerned about a series of accusations questioning Bolton's temperament and wondered if he was the right man for the job."

Conservatives in Washington believe that, in effect, a vote against Bolton would put an end to any hopes for higher political office that Sen. Hagel may harbor. What he now says stands in stark contrast to his March 14 statement on the Bolton nomination just over a month ago:

As of this posting, Sen. Hagel's office had not yet responded to phone or email messages.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: bolton; bush; chafee; hagel; nations; nomination; nominee; ragingrinos; un; united; unitednations; ussenate; whitehouse
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To: Uncle Vlad

APOLOGY accepted! Please accept our SINCEREST sympathies!


161 posted on 04/20/2005 5:52:53 AM PDT by IleeneWright
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To: All

Childish... Attacking Dems is running out of style, so you start, so you start purging your own ranks from people who may think differently or who dare listen to the minority party... Jeffords, Chafee, McCain, Justice Kennedy, etc., etc., etc.

Keep up the good work!

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. -- Truman

Psst... quick! What's the terror level at?!?

Or even Eisenhower...

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. -- Eisenhower


162 posted on 04/20/2005 8:35:40 AM PDT by complete smart ass (Happy RINO hunting!)
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To: complete smart ass
Not as smart as you imagine.

Bye!

163 posted on 04/20/2005 8:43:54 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Guillermo

McCain and the other "mavericks" need to be roped in and sent to the chuckhouse. 'Course there might be a touch o' the ole Mad Cow in the meat. Jus' grill 'em up and toss it out I suppose!


164 posted on 04/20/2005 8:44:20 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: hinterlander

I thought Hagel was a rat! Learn something new every day.

Sometimes I truely wonder why I even bother to vote. I want true conservatives to represent me and to run this country, but all we seem to get is Lib-Lite.


165 posted on 04/20/2005 8:52:22 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: hinterlander
Oh yeah, and since when is this guy being considered for the UN Post??


166 posted on 04/20/2005 8:55:09 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: hinterlander

Hagel needs to start worring about the Republican primary, the Nebraska Republican primary. He either starts doing what the people of Nebraska elected him to do or he can and must be defeated in that state.


167 posted on 04/20/2005 10:25:50 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: OXENinFLA

That Rhino (RINO) picture at post 3# would make a great postcard to send to Senators Chaffe, Hagel, McCain and Voinovich, as well as other bogus Repubs as other situations should develop. I'll take a hundred.


168 posted on 04/21/2005 10:03:40 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: JulieRNR21

That article is four days old and Cameron has already been proven wrong.


169 posted on 04/22/2005 12:31:48 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Yes, it is 4 days old because I posted it 4 days ago.

And it was before Voinovich bought the baloney from Dem operative Melody Townsel and 'bolted'!


170 posted on 04/22/2005 2:42:40 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Memo to MSM: Free Republic is a forum; not a blog!)
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To: JulieRNR21
Yes, it is 4 days old because I posted it 4 days ago. And it was before Voinovich bought the baloney from Dem operative Melody Townsel and 'bolted'!

Sorry. My Bad.

171 posted on 04/22/2005 4:49:53 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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