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White House Fears GOP Senator Will Kill Bolton Nomination
Human Events Online ^ | April 18, 2005 | Chris Field

Posted on 04/18/2005 12:40:14 PM PDT by hinterlander

Hagel May Jump Ship on Bush's Pick for UN Ambassodor -- Human Events has learned that the White House has become increasingly nervous about the confirmation of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

As a new week begins on Capitol Hill, conservatives are beginning to worry that the Democrats' smear campaign against John Bolton might be working.

With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee set to vote on the nomination on Tuesday, Republicans now fear that they might not have the votes to get Bolton out of committee and onto the Senate floor.

Liberal GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) has long been a question mark for the Senate leadership. Now Majority Leader Frist must add fellow presidential hopeful Sen. Chuck Hagel (R.-Neb.) to his list of possible turncoats.

Sources say that the White House is taking seriously reports that Hagel is considering a vote against the President's pick to represent the U.S. at the United Nations in committee.

The Los Angeles Times today reported that Hagel "suggested" he might oppose the Bolton nomination because he is "troubled" by the nominee's "method of operation" and that he is "concerned about a series of accusations questioning Bolton's temperament and wondered if he was the right man for the job."

Conservatives in Washington believe that, in effect, a vote against Bolton would put an end to any hopes for higher political office that Sen. Hagel may harbor. What he now says stands in stark contrast to his March 14 statement on the Bolton nomination just over a month ago:

As of this posting, Sen. Hagel's office had not yet responded to phone or email messages.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: bolton; bush; chafee; hagel; nations; nomination; nominee; ragingrinos; un; united; unitednations; ussenate; whitehouse
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To: Billthedrill
He's a politician. He wants something.

The Law of the Sea Treaty.

41 posted on 04/18/2005 1:07:37 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
This does not make any sense. They would still have enough votes to pass. Why would Hagel jeopardize his standing on a throwaway vote like this?

The vote is in committee. The GOP needs all their guys (including Hagel and Chafee) to vote for Bolton to get him out of committee and onto the senate floor.
42 posted on 04/18/2005 1:07:38 PM PDT by hinterlander
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To: hinterlander

The President should call this Senator in and make the case for his choice IMO. Rumor and the Democrat spin machine should not trump the President of the United States, especially during war time when we need these people with special skills to get things done.


43 posted on 04/18/2005 1:08:14 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: hinterlander

This is one guy I'm so sick and tired of, that I think Republicans need to seriously consider withdrawing all support from him.

He has done nothing but betray Republican policy, especially foreign policy, over the past few years. We need to go on a crusade against this guy, and I really don't care if a Demorat wins his seat. Ideologically, it's no loss to the Republican party. Just get him the heck out of
our Party.


44 posted on 04/18/2005 1:08:24 PM PDT by Zivasmate
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To: hinterlander

Hagel is just trying to break into the Sunday morning TV circuit. He sees McPain and Biden getting major facetime and the adulation of the leftist press, and figures he can raise his stock by pandering to them. Just another empty-suited, phony-baloney, do-nothing, calculating, self-centered, wannabe, unprincipled pol, but I'm being redundant.


45 posted on 04/18/2005 1:09:04 PM PDT by thelastvirgil (Help stamp out incumbent politicians: Public enemy number one.)
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To: All

Anyone notice that this is a 'sources say' article?


46 posted on 04/18/2005 1:09:04 PM PDT by 1_Of_We
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To: lugsoul
"maybe those who are defending this judicial murder could be said to be WORSE than Nazis."

Worse than Nazi's?

My, my. Things must be tough up there in Georgia. Whom did the judges kill now?

47 posted on 04/18/2005 1:09:35 PM PDT by G.Mason (I post to amuse myself ... why do you post?)
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To: hershey

I think what you are predicting is already happening, they just aren't using the verbiage of "lame-duck"---

They are using "abuse of power", because the GOP has POTUS, Senate and the HOuse---

But, make no mistake, they have been given the orders by Soros and gang that everything (unless okayed by Soros and gang) will be slow-walked, stalled, delayed, denied, filibustered, put holds on---in a word, OBSTRUCTIONISM!!!

This is what is behind the Bolton nomination, the judicial nominees (other than the abortion issue, which is ALWAYS an issure where judges are concerned),the Social Security ads, etc.

These people are still angry from the 2000 election, and will act this way until Dubya is out of office, and being all politicians, any GOP rep. or senator that feels that he will be more "electable" by going against Bush, won't hesitate!!!!


48 posted on 04/18/2005 1:09:42 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice!)
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To: Brilliant
[ If they kill the Bolton nomintation, then my suggestion is that we just leave the post vacant. ]

THATS BILLIANT!...
The old, Talk to the HAND if you can find it move..
Indifference is the most sincere form of a "dis"...

Bush to withdraw the Bolten nomination and don't make a new one.. -or- we're studing the problem... LoL..

Check and Mate.. What would be lost?.. NOTHING...

49 posted on 04/18/2005 1:10:23 PM PDT by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: EagleUSA

-I hope the GOP has the berries to throw out these turn-coat, leftist RINOs and replace them.-

First they're going to have to grow the berries, then they're going to have to stop recruiting RINOs into the ranks.


50 posted on 04/18/2005 1:11:43 PM PDT by AmericanChef
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To: EagleUSA
...every day the Repubs become more of a disappointment.

They've been a disappointment for years...going back to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. These days they are an embarassment.

51 posted on 04/18/2005 1:11:46 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk)
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To: hinterlander; All
I just called Senator Hagel office in DC and I asked the Lady who answered the phone about this article that is saying that Hagel is leaning against Bolton nomination for UN ambassador. Unfortunately she did not deny this and she said that Hagel did not make his mind yet on Bolton nomination. I told her that it will very disappointing for the Republicans, and this will be a big mistake by Senator Hagel if he does vote against Mr. Bolton, and I hope that he will vote to confirm him as UN ambassador.
52 posted on 04/18/2005 1:12:32 PM PDT by jveritas (The Left cannot win a national election ever again.)
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To: Guillermo
It's time to get these rats outta there.

The people in their state have to be convinced to do that task.

53 posted on 04/18/2005 1:14:46 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Brilliant

Amen


54 posted on 04/18/2005 1:15:24 PM PDT by paguch
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To: OXENinFLA

I am a "fellow presidential hopeful" as well, as a citizen of the US. I always introduce myself that way.


55 posted on 04/18/2005 1:17:46 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: hinterlander

Ahh. Well still, it would be easy for these people to convene and remove Hagel from the committee and who knows what else someone like Karl Rove might come up with.


56 posted on 04/18/2005 1:17:57 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Might as well start calling Hagel "Knee pads."


57 posted on 04/18/2005 1:19:22 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: Guillermo; EagleUSA
We should all learn from the PA primary last time around; Recall that the pres and us sheep let Spector off the hook and put him back in office. The only thing these guys understand is unemployment.

Let PA and all the other states stuck with a RINO be on their guard. The days of incumbent ownership of nominations are over. Kick the Bumbs out! Conservatives only need apply!
58 posted on 04/18/2005 1:20:54 PM PDT by HonestConservative (Bless our Servicemen!)
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To: hinterlander


This is based on the LATIMES!


59 posted on 04/18/2005 1:23:38 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: hinterlander

/rant on

I AM SO MAD - I CAN HARDLY BREATHE AND I MAY BE SPITTING NAILS AT ANY MOMENT.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO KICK THESE NON-REPUBLICANS OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY - AND PUT SOME REPUBLICANS WITH A SPINE ON THESE COMMITTEES ..??

I'm so on the edge of just bailing out of this stuff - I cannot tell how upset I am.

My representative in Congress, Senator Boxer, IS ON THE TAKE FROM GEORGE SOROS - A CONVICTED FELON - and these bozos are afraid to vote for a guy who's tough and knows how to be a boss ..?? Give me a break!!

The repubs don't want to be in power - they'd rather have their cocktail parties and invites to the cape. I'm sick of this garbage. And .. what's more frustrating is that there is not a damn thing I can do about it.

/rant off


60 posted on 04/18/2005 1:24:49 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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