Senate Will Likely Fight Over Bush UN Pick

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WASHINGTON - John Bolton, President Bush's pick to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, once said it wouldn't matter if 10 stories of the world body's 38-story headquarters simply vanished.

The 56-year-old also has said he does not believe in diplomacy for its own sake, and keeps a model of a hand grenade on his desk at the State Department.

Democrats are gathering an arsenal of material, much of it from Bolton's own writings and speeches, and predicted a tough confirmation fight in the U.S. Senate.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Bush_Administration

"Dirty" Harry Reid to Bolton: "Make my day..."

[Blue_Tires]

1. keeps a model of a hand grenade on his desk at the State Department.

what the shit?

[Skidmore]

2. Old G. Gordon Liddy could out macho that little RW whipper

snapper any day.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. betcha he's got a pinky twinkie n/t

[Melodybe]

4. They fucking better fight this, how many shills can Bush have?

there is not one objective voice in his entire camp.

[BlueManDude]

14. Actually I'm hoping he's confirmed

All he will do is further alienate this admin from the rest of the world pulling us further and further into the shit - and at this point I root for this admin to fail and Bolton will facilitate trhat failure.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

16. What makes 'em so sure it's a "model"???

People like that don't display toys. Betcha five Euros it's live.

[Hobarticus]

5. Well fer pete's sakes, I HOPE they fight this jackass!

The more you read about him, the more you realize that this is a big "eff-you" to the UN.

[Jack The Tab]

6. Who cares.

Our Senate Dems - wow, what an inspiring bunch. I hope Biden can take time out from pushing his MBNA Bankruptcy Bill through to write up a token opposition speech to Bolton.

Seriously, the Dems have been giving the boy king his choice on almost everything he wants, the exception being SS. Why should we give a shit about some Dem vocalizing on Bolton?

[joanski01]

11. I agree.

How can we ever expect the Dems to filibuster the Bankruptcy bill when at least 12 of them voted for Cloture. Joe Biden did, of course. So did Kent Conrad (I thought I loved him), Mary Landriu, Debbie Stabanow, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Tim Johnson, Joe Lieberman, Tom Carper. These are the ones I can remember from the top of my head. Seems like if you sent them a million e-mails and a million letters, it wouldn't make any difference to them.

[RelativelyJones]

7. Its always the same with these dudes

With their whips, nooses, hand grenades, machetes...

They might as well keep a giant dildo on their desks.

Why oh why can't we call people on this bullshit and have it make one bit of difference? Because too many people in positions of power have the equivalent in SUV's, mcmansions, or hummers - - - - or aspire to them.

These assholes are going to lead us over a cliff.

I've been a news junkie my whole life, since I would listen to talk radio as a kid in the seventies. I have never felt a greater need for a free and skeptical press. Please let places like this be it.

[wtmusic]

8. welcome to DU rj

we'll do our best...

:bounce: :toast: :bounce:

[RelativelyJones]

13. Thanks, WT. Will be hanging around

[BlueManDude]

9. Fight? Dems show up with a limp noodle - GOPers a switchblade

Some will fight - most will be on their knees.

[tom_paine]

10. I'll believe it when I see it.

[Itsthetruth]

12. Filibuster!

If the Democratic Party doesn't have enough votes to turn him down they can always block the nomination with a filibuster!

[Warren Stupidity]

17. that would require them to have discipline

and to not be a corrupt bunch of corporate wusses. That would require the Democratic Part to actually be an opposition party. I see little sign of that happening.

It is just more of the same shit we've seen for the last 8 years. Democrats too scared to stand up for Democratic values. Democrats afraid to fight.

[leftchick]

15. Bush's Foxy Pick... Asia Times...

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GC09Aa02.html

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One aide called the nomination "incredible", particularly in light of recent indications, including Bush's talks with European leaders at the end of last month, that he and his new secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, intended to pursue a more multilateralist policy in his second term and was determined to smooth the rougher diplomatic edges of his foreign-policy team.

That notion had been bolstered by Rice's choice of trade representative Robert Zoellick, a long-time pragmatist and "realist", as her deputy, despite Bolton's efforts, backed by Vice President Dick Cheney, to take the job.

The fact that Bolton failed in his quest was taken as a clear sign that Rice was indeed moving toward a more multilateralist policy, in defiance even of Cheney, the undisputed leader of the coalition of aggressive nationalists, neo-conservatives and Christian Right activists that dominated foreign policy from the September 11, 2001 attacks until after the Iraq invasion.

Rice's acquiescence, if not agreement, for Bolton to serve as her representative at the UN, however, will require foreign-policy analysts in Washington to reassess that judgment.

"This is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse," said Heather Hamilton, vice president of programs for Citizens for Global Solutions, formerly the World Federalist Association (WFA), who called Bolton the "Armageddon nominee".