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.
Ah...Hagel is obviously looking for Grade AAA pork for Nebraska.
Graham, McCain, Hagel - all running for president.
Rudy "the RINO" Giuliani is looking better every day if you ask me, certainly better then the 3 stooges listed above.
That was brilliant, Brilliant!
I would add, that the U.S. check for it's "share" of U.N. expenses be sown into the shirt pocket of Mr. Bolton....
No Bolten, no U.S. Ambassador and no U.S. money to the U.N..
Semper Fi
Who'd a thunk that a liberal Republican like Guiliani, would look better than so many sitting Senators---
I could even add Snowe, Collins, Chafee, Voinivich, Specter...give me time, I will think of more LOL
Sorry, but the popular Hagel was reelected in 2002 with a huge vote, or did a Democrat even nominally oppose him? Cornhuskers believe in Hagel, as do the WV Mountaineers believe in Robert C. Byrd!
Don't forget that John Warner is a fully certifiable GOP liberal too. On Liz Taylor's orders!
Maybe if he ran as a democrat.
Senator Hagel
I just spoke with your "Phil" in the DC office regarding this Human Events Online article at http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7190
Hagel May Jump Ship on Bush's Pick for UN Ambassador
White House Fears GOP Senator Will Kill Bolton Nomination
by Chris Field Posted Apr 18, 2005
If true, this is outrageous, and of course immediately disqualifies you from any serious consideration for your presidential aspirations.
Bolton is the president's pick--we picked the president--who are you to get in the way with not a scrap of mitigating evidence save your own overblown ego?
America--that's the big picture--America needs the strong representation of John Bolton at the appallingly corrupt United Nations.
On the heels of the biggest financial swindle of all time, and the serial pedophile predations of pervert peacekeepers, this country needs the epitome of toughness which is John Bolton.
What we don't need is somebody trolling for a big, wet kiss from The New York Times.
He was infinitely more palatable than the dem they were running. I doubt the state party will try to replace him, a lot of the mucky mucks think he is just great and would love to have a Nebraska candidate for prez even though he doesn't stand a chance in hell. By the way, he is part and parcel to McLame, he was one of his primary supporters when he ran in the primaries.
Hagel aide once target of Bolton
Sen. Chuck Hagel said Friday he is "troubled" by an incident in which President Bush's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations purged a young State Department official who now serves on the senator's staff.
Hagel said he still is "very likely to be supportive" of John Bolton's nomination, but he "need(s) to be assured there are not additional serious areas of concern."
The latest reported incident involving Rexon Ryu is the third example of Bolton's alleged efforts to remove officials who disagreed with him or with whom he was dissatisfied.
I suggest Rove let it be known that their political life days are numbered if they go against the President's wishes with Bolton.
Hagel said all of the right things when he first ran for the seat, and the dem he ran against was a no-go from the start.
I read about that the other day, but in the article I read this aide to Hagel didn't even mention it to Hagel---Hagel found out through some other source...
Therefore, if Bolton treated this guy SO bad, why didn't he bring it up to Hagel before now?
The story by Dafna Linzer reported that John Wolf, Ryu's former boss, "said that Ryu was a brilliant and dedicated civil servant, and that the allegations were found to be baseless." But near the end of the article, it said that the nonproliferation bureau at State "determined that Ryu's actions were unintentional," that "the omission was inadvertent and that there was no basis to the allegation." It seems that in this case we have a failure to communicate. Either he withheld the document, as charged, or he didn't. If the allegation is baseless, then how was it "inadvertent" or an "omission" not to provide it to Bolton's chief of staff?
Silly Attacks on John Bolton By Cliff Kincaid | April 15, 2005
How would Tom Osborne have fared if he had run against Hagel for the Senate seat?
Just so I'm clear - is it your contention that someone who was elected as a Republican Senator has an obligation to vote for every nominee of a GOP President, upon pain of being a "turncoat"?
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Not at all -- as long as any reason for voting AGAINST the candidate is something other than he/she is a supporter of the Constitution, our system of laws, and believes that judges' jobs are the application of law, not the legislation of it, and are CONSERVATIVE in their views of America.
Not all of us do, but there isn't a dem here past or present that I would vote for. Hagel is the least odiferous choice that has run in this state. Just remember, regardless of what he does, the (R) behind his title helps ensure that the pubs are at least the majority party in the senate.
We should know tomorrow as the Committee vote is scheduled again for the early afternoon......
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