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Two US Representatives Push GOP's Leach As Envoy To UN
Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | November 14, 2006

Posted on 11/14/2006 2:34:06 PM PST by HAL9000

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WASHINGTON (AP)--A House Republican and Democrat, in the new spirit of bipartisanship, are urging President George W. Bush to name defeated Republican Rep. Jim Leach to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: bolton; jimleach; johnbolton; leach; rino; statedepartment; un; unambassador; unitednations
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1 posted on 11/14/2006 2:34:11 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

A job for the spineless Leach. Sure!!


2 posted on 11/14/2006 2:35:50 PM PST by hubbubhubbub
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To: HAL9000

NO!


3 posted on 11/14/2006 2:36:52 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: HAL9000

Leach makes a saltine seem bold and spicy. He's as zesty and dynamic as milquetoast.


4 posted on 11/14/2006 2:36:59 PM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: HAL9000

I think Rick Santorum would be a better choice. Just watching his old democrat collegues diss him would blow the democrats "bipartisanship" out of the water.


5 posted on 11/14/2006 2:37:03 PM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: HAL9000

Yes if it were the Jim Leach who went after Billary for the Whitewater scandal... NO if it is the Jim Leach who has been Uber RINO the past several years.


6 posted on 11/14/2006 2:38:43 PM PST by Omega Man II
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To: HAL9000
One of the saddest thing the "show them a lesson" Repubs who stayed home did was torpedo Bolton.

A real shame.

7 posted on 11/14/2006 2:39:00 PM PST by what's up
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To: HAL9000

After the way the dems have crapped on Mr. Bush,screw this bipartisanship b.s.


8 posted on 11/14/2006 2:39:49 PM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: HAL9000

Wow! Might as well send a small patch of brown liquid..


9 posted on 11/14/2006 2:39:55 PM PST by zarf
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To: Dane
I think Rick Santorum would be a better choice.

GOOD IDEA!

But I still think an even better idea is to just give Bolton a second recess appointment. Repeat until the Dims allow him an up or down vote.

10 posted on 11/14/2006 2:40:05 PM PST by Stultis
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To: Dane

About Santorum - I think it is a mistake to name someone so high profile. Why are we dignifying the United Nations by sending our best people to be Ambassador there?

Make Santorum our Ambassador to the Vatican.


11 posted on 11/14/2006 2:42:42 PM PST by Omega Man II
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To: what's up

Yeah, if Dubya names Leach to the UN, Gov. Thomas Vilsack (D)
gets to name is his replacement. Now there's a good idea....


12 posted on 11/14/2006 2:43:58 PM PST by theblur
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To: HAL9000

That can't be good.


13 posted on 11/14/2006 2:44:45 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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Forget the fact that he is a RINO, his speaking pattern will put everyone to sleep.


14 posted on 11/14/2006 2:45:10 PM PST by SoCalPol (We Need A Border Fence Now)
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To: Dane

That would be fine. Just keep him away from the weather bureau.


15 posted on 11/14/2006 2:46:03 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

Hmmmm.... How about Michael Steele?


16 posted on 11/14/2006 2:46:20 PM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: theblur
Yeah, if Dubya names Leach to the UN, Gov. Thomas Vilsack (D) gets to name is his replacement.

Leach lost his election, and governors don't appoint congressmen.

17 posted on 11/14/2006 2:47:22 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000
If the Democrats are fer it I am agin' it.
18 posted on 11/14/2006 2:48:44 PM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: theblur

Leach lost.


19 posted on 11/14/2006 2:56:20 PM PST by carola
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To: hubbubhubbub

Jim Leach is my congressman here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Bush would be CRAZY to put him in the UN.

With friends like Leach, Bush wouldn't need enemies. He'd be fighting Bush's policies, not supporting them.


20 posted on 11/14/2006 2:59:41 PM PST by motife
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