Thanks for the FULL posting of a needlessly-excerpted article! :-)
Posted on 04/22/2005 9:38:26 PM PDT by quidnunc
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. – Karl Marx
The misrepresentation of Robert Bork's views and character in 1987, and his subsequent defeat by the Senate for a Supreme Court seat, may not have risen quite to the level of tragedy. But a serious blow was delivered to the political health of the nation, and to the prospects for restoring sound constitutionalism to the Supreme Court.
The assault on John Bolton, on the other hand, seems to be a farce. The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable. Unable to defeat Bolton in a debate on the merits of the foreign policies he has advocated or implemented, the Democrats, the media, and some in the foreign policy establishment have resorted to a childish form of character assassination. Bolton disagreed with — he even disliked! — a couple of bureaucrats. He challenged them. But no one has really accused Bolton of doing anything fundamentally inappropriate. In fact, so far as anyone can tell, there seem to have been almost no formal management complaints filed against him — and very few informal ones — in his 16 years in government, which is fairly amazing.
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(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Try using FR as a research tool for articles published in sources which prohibit their content from being posted here, like the Gannett publications, for instance.
This wouldn't have happened if their articles had been excerpted.
Well, that's it. I'm reporting you to the government for not having an accesible keyboard for your cat. Honestly, some people....
I just fail to understand why YOU habitually needlessly excerpt.
You may have some moral compunction to be the way you are, which is fine, but you should leave the posting of articles which have sources without restriction to full text posting to other FReepers that don't have the ethical cross you seem so intent on carrying throughout this forum.
Ah, Thanks Man,Very Nice of you.
Unquestionably.
But if it takes threatening their re-election for these lily-livered wimps in the GOP majority to show some gumption, then, by damn, they need some threatening!
Support, money, votes, rallies, marches, pats on the back, etc., nothing else seems to give them any courage, so let's try scaring the crap out of 'em and see what happens.
I refuse to post(normally) on his threads, as others do, and its the surest way to kill a potentially interesting thread--i.e. Steyn-- to see his name it. I swear its his own way of ensuring that a thread is bypassed by most. I have had it and I wish the mods would delate his butt, when he does this needlessly.
Excuse me, don't you have to report that dog biting incident to the police? That's the law around here. You know, just following procedure. Your lib neighbor wouldn't want to do anything outside of the bureaucracy, would he?
"The DOS must be riddled with incompetent boobs. I'm frankly surprised that Bolton didn't bust some heads over there!"
Hello incompetent boobs, meet te new Secretary, Condi Rice, big smile, carries a big stick, and uses it.
An important article! Bill Kristol seems to be getting stronger and stronger in his positions.
We have GOT to stop talking about "new tones" and such crap, and start opposing these death rats first time, every time they get up on their high horses. Appeasement doesn't work any better with deathrats than it does with Saddam Hussein. Once you start paying the dane gelt you never get rid of the dane.
I'd like the verb "to Bork" to keep it's (unfortunate) meaning, and "to Bolton" to mean what happens when you get in our way.
"But if it takes threatening their re-election for these lily-livered wimps in the GOP majority to show some gumption, then, by damn, they need some threatening!
Support, money, votes, rallies, marches, pats on the back, etc., nothing else seems to give them any courage, so let's try scaring the crap out of 'em and see what happens."
Yes, Indeed. Made my threat to Sen V.'s office, will do what I can to defeat him if he screws this nomination up further ... if you get one of those fundraising letters from National Senatorial Republican Committee, send back a note saying "will not contribute to Senators that refuse to support the President's nominees!!"
And someone needs to take a 2x4 to the "come to Reagan" meeting these guys need.
This is what is known by the Libs as a "chilling effect." It is truly amazing that what the Libs complain about in others, is what they themselves continually practice.
The best solution to get Bolton passed out of committee would be the replacement of all of the weak kneed Republicans and replace them with Republicans with backbone.
I need to apologise for thee mistspellings or tyypos but sum fokes are abl to reed woords for there meenings.
Actually, the term she used was "Fu*king Jew Ba$tard" (FJB in FR-speak), but it was not the toe sucker.
It was an aide to Governor Clinton in Arkansas in the mid-1980s.
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