It was George W Bush that chose Bernie Kerik and John Bolton...

[kentuck]

If there is a problem, let's lay it at the feet of the person responsible. And now he wants Congress to push through another of his horrible nominations. Who will he nominate next? An old drug-dealing friend from college?

[MrModerate]

1. It's in his nature . . .

He just doesn't get "consequences." He's never experienced any, and so he can't conceive of them.

Even now he doesn't have a clue about the devastating consequences of his mad adventure in Iraq, and how we'll be paying in blood and treasure -- at home and abroad -- for decades.

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Actually I'm surprised he hasn't nominated James Bath for anything yet

Bath was his coke buddy in the TANG (they both refused to take physicals at the same time and were "grounded") and later invested Salem Bin Laden's money in Junior's first (failed) oil business.

He would be a natural for ambassador to either Colombia or Saudi Arabia. At least the way this Fraudministration thinks.

[ChickMagic]

3. It seems to me

that he is deliberately picking the worst possible people as nominees, knowing that most of them will win confirmation. Was it Hagel on the committee that said, "We all know the score here. There's 10 of us and 8 of you." I could see him thinking, "Nanny nanny boo boo."

[Ken065]

6. Lugar

I think that was the fair chairman Lugar as he tried to ram Bolton through before 5pm.

[ChickMagic]

7. Oh right!

Thanks for the correction. I had a senior moment...

[TK421]

4. The guy has a real knack for picking winners, doesn't he?

but then again, he's an expert at picking other things...

[ginnyinWI]

5. He was Cheney's neocon boy at the State Dept.

Brief Bolton resume:

Senior VP at American Enterprise Institute

Senior member of Bush's legal team in Florida after 2000 "election"

Aide to Jesse Helms, who heaped praise on him, calling him a man he'd want to have stand next to him at Armageddon.

Installed by Cheney, he was Undersecretary of State for arms control and international security affairs, where he was the "neocon mole" who reported back to Cheney, Rummy and Wolfie about Powell's doings. He undermined Powell, for example calling Kim Jong Il a "tyrannical dictator" just as Powell was trying to calm relations with North Korea.
Also made inflamatory statements about Castro, which Powell had to back off of and which were repudiated by Jimmy Carter.

Signed the notification to Kofi Annan saying that the U.S. was pulling out of the International Criminal Court (the "happiest moment of my government service", he said)

Has made several denouncements of the U.N. itself--these have been widely publicized lately.

He told and Israeli newspaper that after Saddam fell, it would next be necessary to deal with Syria, Iran and North Korea.

He's as much of a founding member of the Project for New American Century as are Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney and buys into their twisted ideology which favors military might and pre-emptive war.

It was Cheney behind Bolton's nomination to U.N. Ambassador.


The author of this article (in The Progressive)states that we are witnessing the second Cheney Administration now. (It's a good guide to all the bad guys: summarizes each one.)
Make no mistake: our instincts that tell us Bush is clueless are right: it is Cheney who is masterminding all of these terrible appointments, from Rummy on down.
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link to the article: http://www.progressive.org/may05/com0505.php

[liberalcuriosity]

8. Just like the Rangers

Everything he touches turns to crap.