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:
He has the confidence of the President and the Secretary of State and I believe he will be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
The Law of the Sea Treaty.
The President should call this Senator in and make the case for his choice IMO. Rumor and the Democrat spin machine should not trump the President of the United States, especially during war time when we need these people with special skills to get things done.
This is one guy I'm so sick and tired of, that I think Republicans need to seriously consider withdrawing all support from him.
He has done nothing but betray Republican policy, especially foreign policy, over the past few years. We need to go on a crusade against this guy, and I really don't care if a Demorat wins his seat. Ideologically, it's no loss to the Republican party. Just get him the heck out of
our Party.
Hagel is just trying to break into the Sunday morning TV circuit. He sees McPain and Biden getting major facetime and the adulation of the leftist press, and figures he can raise his stock by pandering to them. Just another empty-suited, phony-baloney, do-nothing, calculating, self-centered, wannabe, unprincipled pol, but I'm being redundant.
Anyone notice that this is a 'sources say' article?
Worse than Nazi's?
My, my. Things must be tough up there in Georgia. Whom did the judges kill now?
I think what you are predicting is already happening, they just aren't using the verbiage of "lame-duck"---
They are using "abuse of power", because the GOP has POTUS, Senate and the HOuse---
But, make no mistake, they have been given the orders by Soros and gang that everything (unless okayed by Soros and gang) will be slow-walked, stalled, delayed, denied, filibustered, put holds on---in a word, OBSTRUCTIONISM!!!
This is what is behind the Bolton nomination, the judicial nominees (other than the abortion issue, which is ALWAYS an issure where judges are concerned),the Social Security ads, etc.
These people are still angry from the 2000 election, and will act this way until Dubya is out of office, and being all politicians, any GOP rep. or senator that feels that he will be more "electable" by going against Bush, won't hesitate!!!!
THATS BILLIANT!...
The old, Talk to the HAND if you can find it move..
Indifference is the most sincere form of a "dis"...
Bush to withdraw the Bolten nomination and don't make a new one.. -or- we're studing the problem... LoL..
Check and Mate.. What would be lost?.. NOTHING...
-I hope the GOP has the berries to throw out these turn-coat, leftist RINOs and replace them.-
First they're going to have to grow the berries, then they're going to have to stop recruiting RINOs into the ranks.
They've been a disappointment for years...going back to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. These days they are an embarassment.
The people in their state have to be convinced to do that task.
Amen
I am a "fellow presidential hopeful" as well, as a citizen of the US. I always introduce myself that way.
Ahh. Well still, it would be easy for these people to convene and remove Hagel from the committee and who knows what else someone like Karl Rove might come up with.
Might as well start calling Hagel "Knee pads."
This is based on the LATIMES!
/rant on
I AM SO MAD - I CAN HARDLY BREATHE AND I MAY BE SPITTING NAILS AT ANY MOMENT.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO KICK THESE NON-REPUBLICANS OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY - AND PUT SOME REPUBLICANS WITH A SPINE ON THESE COMMITTEES ..??
I'm so on the edge of just bailing out of this stuff - I cannot tell how upset I am.
My representative in Congress, Senator Boxer, IS ON THE TAKE FROM GEORGE SOROS - A CONVICTED FELON - and these bozos are afraid to vote for a guy who's tough and knows how to be a boss ..?? Give me a break!!
The repubs don't want to be in power - they'd rather have their cocktail parties and invites to the cape. I'm sick of this garbage. And .. what's more frustrating is that there is not a damn thing I can do about it.
/rant off
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