Four Cheers for John Bolton

Power Line ^ | May 17, 2008 | John Hinderaker

[TSchmereL]

With hindsight, the Democrats' filibustering of Bolton's nomination to the U.N. post--he served only via a recess appointment--was one of their most shameful acts. The fact that nonentities like Madeline Albright can slide through the Senate without opposition, while the appointment of John Bolton, who combines a towering intellect with unflagging devotion to his country's interests, is blocked on political grounds, illustrates as well as anything which party is "politicizing foreign policy," as Barack Obama likes to say.

[TSchmereL]

Most observers expect large numbers of Republicans and conservative-leaning independents to stay home in November out of dissatisfaction, of one kind or another, with the Bush administration or the (formerly) Republican Congress. If this happens, it will clear the way to total control of the federal government by the Democrats. Anyone who believes that this is somehow a matter of little concern should contemplate the difference between an administration that entrusts our foreign policy to men like John Bolton, and an administration that relies on advisers like Samantha Power and Robert Malley.

[Michael.SF.]

The fact that nonentities like Madeline Albright can slide through the Senate without opposition...

Can be blamed squarely on the Republicans lack of intestinal fortitude.

[givemELL]

Well, 40 cheers for John Bolton, upping the ante welcome...he is a winning hand.

[oldbrowser]

“By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. ... With it you can erase our enemies as insects... Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. ... And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.” - Lavrenti Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students.

[TSchmereL]

Why are you copying that quote from my profile page? Do you have a comment about that quote or is it merely that you appreciate it?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

I wish Bolton was on the ballet someplace. We need this man in the Senate.

[TSchmereL]

I am sure you meant “ballot,” not that you think John Bolton should join the Bolshoi.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Sorry, Still the Idea of John Bolton in a tutu does make me laugh. I am the product of the California Education system. They tried “See and Say” rather than Phonetics. Kids learned to read fast but can’t spell worth beans.

[holyscroller]

John Bolton for President!!!

[oldbrowser]

Why are you copying that quote from my profile page? Do you have a comment about that quote or is it merely that you appreciate it?

The quote seems perfectly appropriate to the way Bolton has been treated by the Dems and the MSM.

[cowdog77]

John Bolton for President!!!”
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He’d make a good VP in case McCain has “health problems” later on.

[TSchmereL]

Well this quote fits too:

“. . . the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. . . .”

— Dr. Theodore Dalrymple

[OldArmy52]

Unfortunately, the Repub leadership is still missing in action (hiding somewhere I imagine).

[OldArmy52]

Unfortunately, the Repub leadership is still missing in action (hiding somewhere I imagine).