Two US Representatives Push GOP's Leach As Envoy To UN

Mark Levin (Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America, Regnery, 2005) to his credit is no diplomat.

Once upon a time, Jim Leach was not either:

Lawmakers were utterly appalled this week when Representative Henry B. Gonzalez dispatched a paint-peeling letter to his colleague Jim Leach, calling the Iowa Republican obdurate, obstinate, premeditated, willfully disobedient and, by clear implication, irresponsible. That is not to say anyone was particularly surprised. [New York Times]

But Leach was more a housecat than king of the jungle from reading my copy of Whitewater, the compilation of their contemporaneous articles.

His prospects are touted by fellow Iowans--who helped sweep him out of office.

Kind of, "We don't care where you go, but you can't stay here."

And Leach would champion our interests against Russia, China, Iran et al . . . like a paper umbrella in a rainstorm.

Whatever else we require of our U.N. Ambassador, diplomacy should not be the prime requisite.

It isn't for Bolton (viz. Lincoln, "He fights").

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