UN ambassador nominee wrong for job

[struggle4progress]

Back in school, the kid who called people names, who picked on smaller kids and who settled his differences with muscle, not talk, wasn’t usually elected class president. Indeed, who would ever want to be represented by the class bully? In the grown-up world, it shouldn’t be any different. <snip>

Bolton’s bullying of his State Department underling came to light last week during hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on whether to confirm Bolton as America’s ambassador to the U.N.

And who blew the whistle? <snip>

In fact, it was Carl W. Ford Jr., former chief of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, who calls himself "a loyal Republican and conservative to the core." <snip>

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14365731&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18168&rfi=6

[Judi Lynn]

1. Another named surfaced in your article which hadn't been mentioned

as a Republican who might allow his common sense to get the better of him and vote against Bolton:

Hopefully Pennsylvania’s own moderate Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter, will also be smart enough to heed the bipartisan warnings of former ambassadors and reject this bully as our U.N. representative.

So we have the possibility of getting a more conscientious effort from Lugar, Hegel, and now Spector.

This is the time for these good men to come to the aid of their country!

[struggle4progress]

2. I think Specter really prefers to be a moderate. But, of course, ...

... as the Anita Hill case once showed, Specter's sometime desire, to play moderate and to exhibit common sense, doesn't always translate into principled voting when he thinks party loyalty is an issue.