Posted on 04/19/2005 11:07:48 AM PDT by ken5050
OK..here's what we know..Senate is in recess for the weekly party caucus luncheons. Supposed to resume at 2:15. on C-span 2.. The Foreign Relations committee is supposed to meet at 2:45 to vote on the Bolton nomination. Lugar has refused requests for a delay. Just before the Senate recessed, Reid objected to Frist's UC request for the Froeign Relations committee to meet today. Frist withdrew his request..
That is what Biden just did.....smeared Bolton.
Kennedy = Water, Byrd = Fire, HRC = Air (hot), Bill = Dirt (reputation)
Joe needs to get his brain stent cleaned more often. ,, imo.
Biden is now talking about all of these allegations against Bolton, but no witnesses---promises of affidavits, though, by liars.
Biden is moving for a CLOSED HEARING, which means that we won't know how they will screw Bolton---he is talking about not "outing" people---oh, like Kerry did last week?
Biden is a butt!!!!
Somebody get a hold of Tom Delay - let's start practicing for the Nuclear Option ...
http://www.nysun.com/article/12353
New Bolton Accuser Is a Liberal From 'Mothers Opposing Bush'
BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 18, 2005
Destina Japan
WASHINGTON - The latest accusations of abuse aimed at the president's nominee to be America's ambassador to the United Nations come from a self-described "liberal Democrat" who in 2004 helped organize the Dallas chapter of "Mothers Opposing Bush."
The woman, Melody Townsel, alleged that John Bolton chased her through the halls of a Moscow hotel throwing objects and screaming threats at her in August 1994, according to a letter circulated Saturday by the spokesman for the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Biden of Delaware.
The committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on Mr. Bolton's nomination. Until this week, the panel's vote appeared likely to be split along party lines, assuring that the nomination would be forwarded to the Senate floor by a 10-to-8 margin.
But over the weekend, the support of one key Republican who was in Mr. Bolton's camp last week appeared to be wavering. On CNN yesterday, Senator Hagel, a Republican of Nebraska, said at this point he would vote for Mr. Bolton but added, "I have been troubled with more and more allegations, revelations, coming about his style, his method of operation." In the interview, Mr. Hagel, a member of the Senate committee, referred to the letter from Ms. Townsel as one of those recent allegations.
In an interview yesterday, Ms. Townsel said she sent a letter on April 8 to all 18 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee through the panel's Web site, detailing an incident more than 10 years earlier when she was working as a subcontractor for USAID through a contract in Kyrgyzstan. At the time, Mr. Bolton was a lawyer representing Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, the firm that hired Ms. Townsel's company to publicize privatization projects in the Central Asian country. Ms. Townsel complained about Black, Manafort to USAID, and Mr. Bolton was hired to represent them.
According to Ms. Townsel, Mr. Bolton went to great lengths to harass her. "For nearly two weeks, while I awaited fresh direction from my company and from USAID, John Bolton hounded me in such an appalling way that I eventually retreated to my hotel room and stayed there. Mr. Bolton, of course, then routinely visited me there to pound on the door and shout threats," the letter said.
Mr. Bolton's chief of staff, Fred Fleitz did not return an e-mail asking for comment.
In the interview yesterday, Ms. Townsel said, "There is no question that I have been a vocal and outspoken critic of this administration and I am a very liberal Democrat. But it is equally no secret that I had a run-in with John Bolton."
When asked why she did not make this matter public in 2001, when Mr. Bolton's nomination for his current post as undersecretary of state was being considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, she said that at the time she had retreated from politics and was raising young children.
She also said there were no other eyewitnesses to what in the letter she said was a pattern of abusive behavior, but that others working on the project were familiar with her account.
"There were people aware of the harassment, but they are not willing to come forward because they have existing business with the government," she said.
Ms. Townsel's allegations appeared over the weekend in the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, and numerous Democratic-leaning Web sites, such as Daily Kos and The American Prospect's web log, Tapped.
"My story seems to track so closely with other people," she said. "I really thought this would be a small log on the fire, I did not think it would be this big. Nothing in my story is all that out of track with the other stories out there." She also said she was contacted on Friday by the minority counsel of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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But now that he's made it public he wants to discuss it behind closed doors (where it is revealed to be bogus!)
there were no witnesses....a he said, she said...how convenient?
Grrrr I just realized I was watching C-SPAN rather than C-SPAN2. I turn it to C-SPAN2 and see Biden being his contrary, camera-hogging self. As if he cared what anyone else might have known earlier or later.
CLOSED!?!?!
WTF?!?
Yea, and I heard he has hair plugs there too. I not positive, mind you, and don't want to smear the man. That's why I posted it here on the internet, where only a couple of folks will see it.
LUGAR..HOLD THE DAMN VOTE ALREADY.AND GET THIS OVER WITH!!!!
"What kind of procedure is this?"
LOL!!!!!!
OH THIS IS GOOD!!
Lugar is actually standing firm......are Pigs flying???? Can you hear Kerrey whining??? Love it!
Oh, the Dims are p!ssed!
LOL
"Stunning" says Kerry.
Is that Kerry whining?
Did you hear Kerry?
"We'll get our chance in open session."
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