Bolton Finds U.N. Nomination in Jeopardy

myway.com ^ | 4/25/05 | ANNE GEARAN

[Imaverygooddriver]

[trickyricky]

Vice President Dick Cheney sounded as resolute as ever about Bolton's
nomination when he spoke to Republican campaign lawyers on Friday.

Good for him!

The White House is now lobbying Voinovich and two other GOP senators
on the committee to support Bolton, although
Bush has not gotten involved personally.

WHY NOT?!!!
Sometimes Bush makes me sick to my stomach!

[tkathy]

If Bolton is as tough as they portray him, he will get nominated.

Is anyone else as sick as I am of all these endless manhood insults of honorable politicians?

Winning in politics is not about getting your way on the small issues, it's about the big picture.

[xzins]

"If the White House wants to spend enough political chips they could save it," Lichtman said.

Precisely. Despite the VP's stated sentence of support, I haven't seen the WH leading any charge of the light brigade to Bolton's defense. They've been pretty meek, if you ask me.

A comment of support here, and another one there.

I think it really is their style to float people and see if anything turns up. Ashcroft, Chavez, Kerik.... examples. I don't mind the style, but it's hard to get worked up over that which hasn't yet gotten the WH in a lather.

[G.Mason]

" ... Sometimes Bush makes me sick to my stomach!"

Quite understandable.

I would feel ill also if I took everything witten, or stated about him to be factual and true, however I was fortunate that at an early time in my life I was advised to ... "consider the sources".

[filly]

What is the point of voting Republicans into office if they are going to role over and let the Democrats run the show?

Everybody should be writing or calling the RNC and telling them that you will not donate another dime to the party until the take a strong stand on:

Judges
Bolton
Tom Delay

Not a d-i-m-e!

[Modok]

Colin Powell needs to STFU and haul his liberal carcass back home. Apparently, President Bush did not boot him hard enough, since he has found his way back to Washington and is now backstabbing Bolton.

[xzins]

I'm not sure why the WH pursues a "float and see" position on nominees, but it does. Maybe they just don't have enough folks to investigate their own nominees. I don't know.

Maybe you can investigate criminal stuff, but you can't the personal or political stuff.

Whatever it is, it makes it hard to get in a tizzy about WH nominees.

All except the judiciary....the WH seems to have launched a real offensive to get judges approved. We'll see what Frist and the Senate does with that.

[Truth29]

IMHO, Bolton is a proxy for the judicial nominations. If the GOP doesn't pull together, if the WH doesn't fight aggressively for Bolton, and if there are no consequences for those who desert the GOP while the dems show 100% unity, they are telegraphing weakness to Republicans who are thinking about joining the Democrats to defeat the "nuclear" option.

[paguch]

Voinovich is the problem, not Bolton. Voinovich puts politics above party and country. He admitted he was not up to speed on Bolton, he had not gone to the meetings.

Voinovich was a tax and spend Governor in Ohio, not necessarily smart or loyal.

The Nation, not just Ohio has to hold Voinovich responsible for future carnage caused by the UN if Bolton does not get in.

Little George is counting on Republican support and Democratic appreciation and support while he plays both sides of the fence. He was just reelected for six more years. Probably too old and dumb to run again. Challengers for his seat should begin to speak out. They can start by calling for his resignation.

[Da Mav]

IMHO, Bolton is a proxy for the judicial nominations.

I agree completely. And not only that, but an acid test of whether the buerocracy will be able to sink someone who challenges it. If Bolton is lost over such petty charges, who will be ready to be a hard charger within the system anymore? Nobody with future ambitions.

The idea that the Dems are concerned about his demeanor is such a joke. This is the party that almost nominated Howlin Howdy Dean. I hope that Republicans everwhere will lean hard, push hard, and take this one to the mat. The principles and precedent it sets will be far more important than the position involved.

[Non-Sequitur]

I can't imagine why Bolton wanted it in the first place. Withdraw his nomination and then leave the position empty. That will send a stronger message of how the administration feels towards the UN than Bolton could.

[hubbubhubbub]

Maybe as a result there'll be a new military airbase in Cleveland now.

[sergeantdave]

Bolton understands the corruption and mendacity of the UN, and he would announce it loudly.

The Marxist rats who support the UN socialists can't allow that. Being told the truth about the UN would increase the number of Americans calling for the UN's overdue demise. The UN with its criminal, fascist NGOs is one of the power bases for the rat party. The corrupt leftists will fight hard to continue the UN's theft, murder and lies.

[Probus]

I have to agree, most of the time his conservative values are at the surface, but when it comes to UN, border control, etc. I too sometimes retch.

[Probus]

Good idea, da**ed good idea!

[conservativecorner]

Remember to give to the NRSC this next election cycle. END HEAVY SARCASM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rembrandt_fan]

There's precedent for a major power not having representation at a major Security Council meeting. The Soviets were boycotting the meeting the day the vote was taken to support South Korea following invasion by the North.

Not filling our seat at the UN is an altogether bad idea, although I agree with the sentiment behind the gesture.

[DJ Taylor]

"IMHO, Bolton is a proxy for the judicial nominations."

I believe you are right. The Democrats are just using this Bolton confirmation to size up their Republican opponents in the Senate in preparation for the upcoming judicial nominee confirmations, and I’m afraid they have just found out that our Republican majority has no backbone.

[Evolution]

Winning in politics is not about getting your way on the small issues, it's about the big picture.

The Bolton nomination is part of a bigger picture. If Bush cannot have a GOP Senate confirm his nominee to the UN, which has always been recognized as a place where the Executive has the most control, then Bush is a lame duck. Bush will be a toothless tiger that no one will fear, and we might as well just focus on 2008.