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McCain Urging Accord on Bolton and Secret Documents
The New York Times ^ | 5/28/2005 | Douglas Jehl / Carl Hulse

Posted on 05/28/2005 7:45:20 AM PDT by Ibleedred

May 28, 2005 McCain Urging Accord on Bolton and Secret Documents By DOUGLAS JEHL and CARL HULSE WASHINGTON, May 27 - One of John R. Bolton's leading Republican backers, Senator John McCain of Arizona, signaled his support on Friday for a compromise in which the White House might allow Senate leaders access to highly classified documents in return for a final vote early next month on Mr. Bolton's nomination as United Nations ambassador. The conciliatory signal from Mr. McCain came as Senate leaders traded blame over who was responsible for the miscalculation that led to Mr. Bolton's nomination being blocked Thursday. But the White House showed

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; bolton; boulton; filibuster; mccain; nomination
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To: Ibleedred

Why didn't our president call in these seven a-holes, read them the riot act, and demand that they stay the course. Reagan would of.


81 posted on 05/28/2005 1:16:00 PM PDT by Brofholdonow
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To: Brofholdonow
Senator Palpitine Mc Kain, When does he dissolve Congress and The Senate and become Emperor!!!!!!
82 posted on 05/28/2005 1:20:02 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: mewzilla
Dood has now morphed the argument .....The third factor, and perhaps the most important, Congressional officials said, was the success of Mr. Biden and Mr. Dodd in convincing fellow Democrats in dozens of phone calls that the vote was not about Mr. Bolton but about standing up for the Senate and its prerogatives against incursions by the executive branch.

First two factors were Vonovitch, and Thune....

83 posted on 05/28/2005 1:21:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Mo1

He was on with Brit Hume too, with that same info.


84 posted on 05/28/2005 1:24:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Mo1; mewzilla
Thanks, a side note:

How DailyKos Helped Dems Attack Bolton
A left-wing website rescues clueless Democrats in the confirmation fight.

85 posted on 05/28/2005 1:28:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: All
Another note:

May 27, 2005, 11:11 a.m.
The Battle for Bolton
The Dems continue to manufacture excuses.
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

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Harry Reid’s mediocrity as Senate Democratic leader was on full display in the vote Thursday on the nomination of John Bolton to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In one of the most bizarre political performances in memory, having promised not to filibuster this nominee, he announced — immediately after his party voted to do just that — that Democrats were not filibustering Bolton’s appointment.

  
When, minutes later, Majority Leader Bill Frist made the obvious point that the Democrats’ votes “looked” and “quacked” like a filibuster, Senator Reid reversed himself. He acknowledged that it was indeed “a filibuster” and, therefore, yet another example of his party’s deliberate effort to deny President Bush the people he wants to place in key judicial and now executive-branch positions.

Unfortunately, Senator Reid’s short-lived lie was but the latest example of the political prevarications used to smear, demean, and try to defeat Bolton. For example, since President Bush tapped his undersecretary of state for arms control and international security to represent him and us at the United Nations, Democrats have accused Bolton of manufacturing intelligence, trying to “fire” intelligence analysts who opposed such efforts, describing correctly — but undiplomatically — the nature of the North Korean regime, withholding information from his superiors, bullying his subordinates and others, abusing a woman in a Moscow hotel decades ago, denying another woman maternity leave in the Department of Justice some 20 years ago, and, most recently, improperly accessing the names of American citizens whose phone calls with foreign nationals were intercepted by the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA).

86 posted on 05/28/2005 1:32:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: All
Above note is posted here on FreeRepublic:

The Battle for Bolton (The abject dhimmitude of the GOP senators contrinues apace)

87 posted on 05/28/2005 1:36:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It's been a while since I've been over there

I'll have to check out what's up


88 posted on 05/28/2005 1:39:54 PM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: Mo1
From the Gaffney article:

Perhaps the most insidious of the lies leveled against Bolton is a striking omission. Sen. Christopher Dodd, an indefatigable champion of normalized relations with Fidel Castro, has led the charge with respect to allegations that Bolton wanted wrongly to accuse the Cuban dictator of having biological weapons (BW) capabilities, then retaliated against a State Department analyst and the CIA’s national intelligence officer for Latin America who had the temerity to resist his efforts.

Missing from this pro-Fidel reconstruction of events is a singularly important point: The two analysts acted in unauthorized and unprofessional ways when Bolton and his staff dared challenge unduly benign assessments of Castro’s BW potential — assessments that had been skewed by one of their colleagues, a senior Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who turned out to be a Cuban spy.

It is entirely appropriate that a policymaker challenged the products of the spy’s disinformation. It is also understandable that he would lose confidence in, and seek the reassignment (not firing) of, individuals whose attachment to such products was so great as to prompt them to attack him personally and viciously outside of official channels (including, in the case of the NIO, to Senator Dodd and two of his colleagues).

89 posted on 05/28/2005 1:41:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Ibleedred

updates.


90 posted on 05/28/2005 1:44:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Condor51
Condor 51,
I agree with you on the Democrats, but they are encouraged in their behavior by the Republicans. The Republicans act like a bunch of neutered dogs. They really do play by a different set of rules. The Dems Borked Bork, and the GOP cried, "You shouldn't judge on ideology, only qualifications." Then the Republicans turned around and confirmed Ginsburg by 97-3 (I think). Then they act all shocked when the Dems continue to play politics with the nominations. I guarantee you they are setting around saying, "Suckers." We'll the you shouldn't judge based on ideology is and always has been a bunch of crap. Ideology is the MOST important qualification. And the GOP should have filibustered Ginsburg and Breyer if they had any gonads.

So sure. Bolton confirmed is better than Bolton denied, because it would have the appearance of a defeat. But the goal is not UN reform. It is UN withdrawal.
91 posted on 05/28/2005 3:31:40 PM PDT by Red Phillips ("Second off, you've got to discipline your image.")
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To: Lazamataz

I just want to know why this ba$tard makes Hillary palatable to me.

Hillary!

I'm a Buddhist! I'm not supposed to hate. Damn you for causing me to sin, you POC.


92 posted on 05/28/2005 3:44:12 PM PDT by stands2reason (It's 2005, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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To: demkicker

There is ONE silver lining on this.

We don't have to hear about McCrap's so-called "pro-life" views anymore. You can't be pro-life and anti-conservative judge appointments at the same time.


93 posted on 05/28/2005 3:47:05 PM PDT by stands2reason (It's 2005, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

I don't know, but I'm looking forward to it.


94 posted on 05/28/2005 3:48:53 PM PDT by stands2reason (It's 2005, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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To: Ibleedred
Senator McVain!!

Pls STOP "helping" and STFU!

95 posted on 05/28/2005 3:50:20 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Ibleedred

My suggestion for a compromise:

The RATS get the files.

Bolton gets an up or down vote.

George Voinovick promises to stop crying.


96 posted on 05/28/2005 4:59:02 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Dark Wing
Negraponte has already said NO and I doubt that the president is going to overrule him.
97 posted on 05/28/2005 5:09:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Sacajaweau
This all as to do with Cuba/Castro!

It stems from those who want "normal" relations with Cuba/Castro, wanting to find out what covert actions we're doing and alert Castro.

98 posted on 05/28/2005 5:15:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Ibleedred
This sh!ts gotta stop!

We might actually accomplish something!

100 posted on 05/28/2005 5:22:32 PM PDT by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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