Bolton nomination “really, really dead.”
By on Sep 26th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Bolton nomination “really, really dead.”
Steve Clemons says the “last pre-election loophole through which John Bolton’s confirmation might have snuck through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was at 2:15 this afternoon at a previously called ‘business meeting’ of the Committee. That meeting has been cancelled — and with it even the dimmest chance of John Bolton being confirmed as US Ambassador to the United Nations.”
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Bush quit looking for Osama when he became president.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:08 amI hope this news is true, but things happen in secret in DC, so best to wait for confirmation on this event!
September 26th, 2006 at 11:11 amOh NOOOOOOOOOO!! I’m MELTING!!
September 26th, 2006 at 11:17 amlet us hope the walrus doesn’t get thru
coup coup ca coup
September 26th, 2006 at 11:22 amHope its true.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:25 amThis is a Congress that holds votes open for hours and does all sorts of other backhanded BS so I’ll believe it when I see it.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:28 amAmerica’s Least Wanted
Oh….when I first read it I thought it said “Bolton..really really dead.” Oh well.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:30 amHey, at least he still has that Hair Club for Men gig…doesn’t he? Please tell me he’s got something to cling to. I hear Brownie’ s back in business maybe he’s looking for people to do whatever it is that he does.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:36 amOkay… here’s what the White House will do next…mark my words: He will be APPOINTED to a DEPUTY ambassadorship which DOES NOT require Congressional approval to become permanent. Just watch!
September 26th, 2006 at 11:44 amCan’t Bolton be put forward as a nominee again?
September 26th, 2006 at 11:48 amnever, EVER, count you chickens before…
September 26th, 2006 at 11:51 amnot with this group…
Thank goodness! It couldn’t happen to a nastier fellow.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:03 pmOK, “Progressives” why do you hate Bolton? I’m sure because he does not agree with you 100%. Because you hate anyone that does not agree with you 100%. Hate to the point of wishing death
Nice. So do you wish me dead?
September 26th, 2006 at 12:07 pmKevin you give you’re self worth far to much credit…No one here care’s about you alive or dead, we don’t know you, why would we care…Go to red state and plead you’re case…..
September 26th, 2006 at 12:24 pmPlease let Bolton just go away, it would benefit people who cannot bear to look at him.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:46 pmKevin: You’re obviously a neocon and a putz!
September 26th, 2006 at 12:46 pmJudging someone based on what he looks like. That’s sort of like racism
September 26th, 2006 at 12:55 pmI get such a gay feeling when looking at his “manly” shaft-wiper of a moustache…
September 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pmBolton HATES the UN. Putting him in the UN and expecting some diplomacy is disrespectful and a spit in the eye to every other country that deals with the UN and the US in good faith. That’s why.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pmPersonally I didn’t think the sock was such a big deal compared to when Clinton bent Wallace over a chair and ritually ass-raped him on national tv.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:30 pmAren’t they going to create a new position for him as “deputy” something, thereby allowing him to attend the UN albeit, not as the ambassador (to be named later).
September 26th, 2006 at 2:31 pmGood. I’m glad there is no hope this guy will actually get confirmed at all. He shouldn’t have been recess appointed either, but we have no control over that! The man hates the UN and will do anything he can to dissolve it, if it were in his power.
September 26th, 2006 at 4:11 pmKevin, having Boulton be our ambassador to the UN is like having Keith Olberman as the White House Press Secretary. Does that help you understand it better?
September 26th, 2006 at 8:27 pm#22; not to worry, Bushitler will simply give him another recess appointment to the post.
September 26th, 2006 at 10:27 pm#22: Bolton won’tget paid if he isn’t confirmed by the senate this time around. Here is a good read on the subject:
CRS Report- Recess Appointments: A Legal Overview
Kevin:
September 27th, 2006 at 12:05 pmJohn Bolton has openly stated that he wants to get rid of the UN, I don’t think that someone like that should be an UN ambassador
Now if we can just BURY it!
September 27th, 2006 at 2:51 pm