[Cincinatus' Wife]

Senator Dodd is blocking Otto Reich. Why?

Bush nominee deserves better than old grudges --Otto Reich was nominated on July 12 to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric Affairs. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has not even bothered to schedule a confirmation hearing for Reich, and has no plans to do so. The reasons have nothing to do with Reich's competence or qualifications, and everything to do with Connecticut SEN. CHRIS DODD'S affinity for Cuba's Fidel Castro and the communist Sandanista regime in Nicaragua.

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Otto Reich topped the list of 18 nominees Secretary of State Colin Powell said he would like to see confirmed before the Senate adjourns for the year. Congress' recess may begin in November.

Powell submitted the list in a letter dated Monday to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

A hearing on Reich's nomination as assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs has been held up while Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., looks into Reich's work as a State Department official, an ambassador to Venezuela in the 1980s and a lobbyist...---Powell Backs Latin American Nominee

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Recognizing a few of the snakes

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[GotDangGenius]

Tom Daschle's war on America has to be stopped.

There is one thing Bush should do-

RECESS APPOINTMENTS. Daschle should stop frickin around, and Bush should call the Dems on this kind of baloney with appointments.

Daschle is holding up the function of our government because he doesn't want Democrats petty bull to be seen in the light of the present crisis.

[OldSmaj]

Very timely posting.

That aside, the one thing I cannot figure out about Zell Miller, though, is why he continues to carry that (D) beyond his name. His actions and intentions have been (R) for a while now. Very few (D)'s recognize the threat from SA, or simply refuse to acknowledge it.

Can he be a DINO?

However, never trust anyone that has been a (D) as long as he has. Even if he later switches parties.

[beckett]

`If it were a snake, it would have bit you.''

We learned it as "If it was a dog it would've bit you." In fact, my Mom said it frequently, since at any one time any one of her six kids would be unable to find something that was right in front of his or her face.

I guess Moms do things a little differently in Georgia.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

We have failed to tend to the region, and cracks have appeared in what just five years ago was an emerging shield of democracy, security and economic opportunity. Today Argentina is on the verge of financial collapse. Oil giant Venezuela has a president who is openly hostile to the United States. Nicaragua is on the verge of electing a former communist with strong ties to Libya and Iraq. Civil unrest, unemployment and crime are on the rise in many Latin American democracies.

Gee, now who was in the oval office when all this happened? I forget.

[what's up]

Otto Reich is the man!

[boris]

"Nearby, the tri-border area of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil is a lawless place where members of Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups linked to Osama bin Laden are probably planning other terrorist attacks."

Nuke um.

--Boris

[real saxophonist]

The threat in our own back yard

[Prodigal Daughter]

Bump!