Posted on 11/09/2006 7:00:49 AM PST by Dark Skies
New York -- NewsMax has learned that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will likely leave his post next month.
After a rocky series of Senate confirmation hearings, Bolton was sent to the U.N. by President Bush in August 2005 under a recess appointment. That allowed the president to bypass Senate confirmation while it was in recess, but the appointee could only serve for the length of the current Congress which is set to expire at year's end.
There had been indications that Bolton might win Senate confirmation after the election when several key votes might be open to favoring Bolton. But the GOP's apparent loss of the Senate has doomed that hope.
"This nomination is dead and we have known it for several days," a source close to the U.S. mission to the U.N. tells NewsMax.
"We just don't know what the White House wants to do next," the source added.
Bolton has won high marks for his role at the U.N. as he has dealt with several crises, especially with North Korea, Iran, and the recent crisis between Israel and Lebanon.
President Bush has strongly supported Bolton and has repeatedly called upon the Senate committee to allow the nomination to go to the full Senate for an "up and down vote." Senate Democrats again blocked such a vote Wednesday evening.
Bolton has been one of the administration's few high-ranking conservatives. During Bush's first term, Bolton served as under secretary of state for arms control and international security.
At that post he aggressively pursued rogue state's like Iran who have been developing weapons of mass destruction. Bolton has been credited in getting Libya to agree to dismantle its WMD program.
Bolton's principled and sometimes confrontational approach has not won support from many congressional Democrats.
"The Bolton nomination will not get voted on," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., reportedly has told colleagues.
Another leading Democrat, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a long-time Bolton nemesis, seconded Reid's position on Wednesday. Biden is expected to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the new Congress convenes in January.
While Bolton's office in New York has not commented on developments, NewsMax has learned that the White House is considering reappointing Bolton under the same recess appointment provision. There is a hiccup: Bolton would be forced to serve without pay, an unlikely alternative sources say.
Among those believed to be on a White House short list to replace Bolton is former Senate majority leader and prominent Maine Democrat George Mitchell.
well we certainly turned the Middle East over to Iran. So much for Israel's survival.
Ditto re: Santorum.
Andy Young is still around.
Then there's bill klintoon. He'd be right at home in that corrupt nest of vipers...
ROFLMAO!!
Bolton would make a great Secr. of State.
It wouldn't matter if he solved all the problems in the world and there was peace everywhere.
He's part of the Bush admin so he is EVIL.
Send up the name of Rick Santorum for UN Ambassador.
Quote: "By voting in Dems America has just committed suicide."
I believe that the voters are never wrong. If we lost the election, it is our fault, not theirs. But, we lost and I am pretty certain it wasn't the worst defeat or the first defeat. Time to dust ourselves off and fight anew.
Not good...
Bolton can be recessed appointed and get paid IF he also assumes another position in the Administration. Double-duty.
I think the voters were morons this time. This is life or death my friend . Have you read ho wthe Arab /Moslem world is celebrating the Republican defeat. The general public are a bunch of sheep.
I think the whole reason we lost so much is because Bush had no pr plan to win anything.
So the dims in their greed for power pulled out all the stops and went total negative/destruction. With no counter offense it looked to the world like Bush was too weak to hold any position or accomplish anything and it was so.
I remember clinton was out there everyday pushing his way. Whether he was lying outright or subtly he was out there leaving little room for any other position.
Bush gave the dims all the room they wanted and of course they took everything.
He thought that if he was civil with them they would be too. Wrong. The dims are like the islamo terorists. They only take and slaughter. Nice is not in their vocabulary.
Just as you cannot reason with a rabid dog you cannot reason with the dims.
"Wow, this punishment of Republicans is really working like a dream!"
I've seen your comment on a couple of threads and completely agree! I fear it will need to be used frequently.
At this point I am all for using anything and everything to get our way.
What we want is best for the country. What the dims want is best for them.
This gives Bolton time to prepare for the Presidentcy.
The 2006 midterm elections will be responsible for major damage to the U.S. for generations to come. We can thank the media indoctrinated public for their stupidity. This "punishing" of the Administration because they could not take care of Iraq before the elections is total mindlessness.
Why don't they confirm him during the lame duck session? Anyway, we see the obstructionism that we can expect from this Senate. Thanks conservatives who stayed home rather than voting!
Bolton has acquitted himself well at the UN. His more honest critics even conceed that. There is no reason not to confirm him other than as a raw exercise of power by the twin assholes Reid and Biden.
Pay back is a bitch. We should tell them to wave bye-bye to their minimum wage increase as a result of deep sixing Bolton, that it will be vetoed. But we won't. We're expected to be gracious losers while Democrats can act as shitty as they want and the media will let them get away with it because they actually believe they have a mandate.
He would have been confirmed a couple months ago but for Chafee. Thanks, Link. Enjoy your retirement.
One never becomes successful after a defeat by suggesting that the public is stupid or other forces are responsible. If we did not prevail in this election cycle it was because we failed to deliver the goods. Bottom line. End of story.
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