Democrats struck by a Bolton from the blue
by JohnHuang2
Bush could've nominated someone more at home with diplomacy and dialogue and consultation -- someone interested in building bridges to New Guinea, reaching out to Fiji, debating the legal definition of 'ethnic cleansing' with Robert Mugabe. With hundreds of possible candidates to pick from, Bush instead nominates the perfect man for the gig: John R. Bolton. His nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is fiercely opposed by the U.N., State Dept. has-beens, French scholars, al-Qaeda and Democrats in Washington.
Bolton is not the kind of guy you send to hold hands with the froggies or climb in bed with Kofi or sing, "Only a woman like you" at the U.N. But if giving the Euroweenies the middle-finger salute is what you want, Bolton's your man. Since he's the kind of guy who will stand up for America, naturally, Democrats are all ticked-off over Bolton. You can't get these sniveling cowards ticked-off over al-Qaeda, but mention Bolton's name and they start spewing green and purple bile across the room and swiveling their heads. You'd think they'd seen a crucifix.
Democrats call Bolton a terrible mistake. (Democrats know a terrible mistake when they see one. They field one in every election.) Democrats are also experts in powerless/irrelevant institutions. One is called the "Democrat Party." Muslim fanatics slaughtered 3,000 Americans and are plotting to kill even more of us, so Democrats think Bolton's too tough. Democrats have this nifty method to determine whether a foreign policy is moral or not, which is to sample French opinion. Whatever the French say, goes.
Bolton's "controversial" nomination comes on the heels of Condi Rice's "controversial" nomination, Alberto Gonzales's "controversial" nomination, Porter Goss's "controversial" nomination, Paul Wolfowitz's "controversial" nomination, John Negroponte's "controversial" nomination. A nominee becomes 'controversial' at precisely the moment he starts disagreeing with the thoughtful opinions of the North Korean news agency. For weeks the MSM said Bolton would have difficulty winning confirmation, which I took to mean he's a shoo-in. Near as I can tell, Democrat opposition to DarthBolton boils down to two things: 1) Bolton will be U.S. ambassador to the U.N., not U.N. ambassador to the U.S. and 2) he doesn't think the U.N. should run the U.S. Bolton -- nothing but a 'yes man' to America.
Liberals, in a persistent vegetative state, haven't figured out they lost the last election, which means they don't get to pick the next ambassador to the U.N. They can't elect their way out of a paper bag, so they're re-fighting the last election and think it's brilliant strategy. Given how much time Democrats spend touring there these days, that river in Egypt must be a really lovely place. An AP poll over the weekend showed Bush's rating slipping, Congress's rating slipping, Social Security reform in trouble -- so Republicans had reason to cheer because, had AP polls been right, it would be Janet Reno twirling her mustache as 'president' Kerry's ambassador to the U.N.
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Speaking of polls, Liberals insightfully note that Bush is being damaged by soaring prices at the pump. It's been so damaging, that a new Gallup poll had Bush being damaged back up to 50% job approval, from 45% a few weeks ago, when gas was cheaper. (The Bush rebound is prominently featured on page 10 of the 'C' section of the Washington Post, lower right-hand corner.) This is not to paint a rosy picture, either. There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term.
Watching this week's confirmation hearings, you could only conclude Bolton packs more smarts in that mustache than Kofi does in his whole world body. Bolton picks his enemies with care. Fifty-nine ex-Foggy Bottomites with catchy names like, Princeton N. Lyman, Monteagle Streans, Spurgeon M. Keeny (Oh, no! Not Spurgy, too!) etc., have come out against Bolton. The munchkins signed a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, committee chairman. Clean-shaven Harry Reid says he's deeply saddened, calling Bolton a "disappointing choice."
Sen. Joe Biden, who plagiarizes whole speeches by Neil Kinnock, questioned Bolton's judgment. "I'm surprised the nominee wants the job . . . given the many negative things he's had to say about the U.N, " Biden noted. Bolton won't even give the U.N. grudging credit for rapes in the Congo, Oil-for-Food scandals, Darfur, Haiti, rampant nepotism and other remarkable successes, so what can you expect? (Democrats won't talk up anything really positive either, like the U.N.'s appointing Saddam to chair its disarmament conference and putting Libya in charge of human rights and handing over its Congo child-rape operations to Michael Jackson.)
Committee Democrats expressed outrage that Bolton would be so lacking in 'diplomatic temperament' as to call an irrelevant institution like the U.N. an irrelevant institution. Bolton shows little affection for North Korea, too. Asked once if he's cool with the carrot-and-stick approach towards Kim Jong-il, Bolton famously replied, "I don't do carrots." Go ahead, kick a dictator while he's down, why don'tcha. Sen. Barbara Boxer expressed outrage that Bolton expressed outrage at U.N. incompetence in past speeches. To prove her point, Boxer played videotape of a Bolton speech recently unearthed by archaeologists. "You have nothing but disdain for the United Nations!!!!!" she said politely. Then she wept. The Ohio recount isn't going well.
Sen. John Kerry, who once ran for president (see history footnotes), said he seriously questions Bolton's "commitment to the U.N.," given his commitment to the U.S. (While preparing for the hearings, Kerry found Bolton's past speeches so painful to listen to, he put in for another Purple Heart.) I love your pain, man.
Bolton got 60 nations to work with the U.S. on proliferation issues, shrank Russian nuke stocks by two thirds, oversaw passage of U.N. resolutions opposing Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and repeal of the 'Zionism is racism' resolution, but Democrats are all worked up over Bolton's speechwriting; and whether he challenged intelligence analysts, which is a serious charge because, as everyone knows, we should never question intelligence analysts and should always assume intelligence analysts are always right. Carl Ford Jr., former State Department intelligence analyst, accused Bolton of something which is certain to have global repercussions: He yelled at somebody. Which hurt that somebody's feelings.
The U.N. has proudly oscillated for 60 years from unbridled corruption to unbridled incompetence. Lately, it proved it can be corrupt and incompetent at once. About 5 minutes after the U.N. was hatched, there was talk of the need for 'reform'. Then an inquiry would follow. The inquiry would find the U.N. hopelessly incompetent and talk of the need for reform. Then another inquiry would follow. The inquiry would find the U.N. hopelessly corrupt and talk of the need for reform. Corrupt and incompetent. But there's hope. It's called death with dignity. A peaceful death with dignity. I highly recommend it for the U.N. C'mon, liberals. Here's a perfect candidate for euthanasia. A real Right-to-Die case. Sixty years in a coma at U.S. taxpayers' expense, with no chance of recovery. Dismal prognosis. No improvement is possible. Its condition is irreversible and incurable. Who would want to live like this? Sixty years on life-support is long enough. It can't breath on its own. It can't feed itself. Time to pull the plug on this corpse. And John Bolton is just the man to do it.
Anyway that's...
My two cents
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Pain. Abject, horrible, excruciating pain. Unrelenting, unbearable, unspeakable pain. With each slash across Jesus' back and with every muscle-burning step up Golgotha's hill, our Savior received the punishment for our sin. 
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