I FEAR FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

Jeff Head Personal BLOG space ^ | May 26, 2005 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Today, May 26, 2005, the American public and people all over the world witnessed a spectacle on the floor of the US Senate. A US Senator from Ohio, Senator Voinovich, broke down on the floor of the Senate and cried as he expressed his opposition to President Bush's nomination for UN Ambassador, John Bolton. In his impassioned and (apparently) sincere plea, he cried and told America and the world how he was unwilling to "risk" our representation at the UN to Mr. Bolton, and how he, Senator Voinovich feared for his children and grandchildren.

Apparently in considering Mr. Bolton, Senator Voinovich was not present at the confirmation hearings where Bolton testafied and has not met with Mr. Bolton. This alone makes one suspicious of the true nature of today's spectacle.

But, a grandfather fearing for his children and grandchildren is not something to take lightly or cavalierly dismiss. As the father of five children, and the grandfather of three grandchildren with a fourth on the way, I know this to be true. So, I wanted, grandfather to grandfather...father to father...to respond to Senator Voinovich.

I understand his feelings. I too fear for my children and grandchildren.

But I do not fear having a man such as John Bolton as our Ambassador...I fear NOT having a man such as Mr. Bolton as our Ambassador to the UN.

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[Jeff Head]

Agreed.

[hosepipe]

Can you hear the laughter tonight around tables at democrat eaterys..
and the mocking renditions..

No doubt republican senators ate at home tonight..

[Fledermaus]

He's up for reelection in 2006...if Ohio doesn't get rid of him I'll be disappointed.

[sport]

I'm with you.

I believe somene else was fishing in his pond.

[eleni121]

You are right! This indecent spectacle demonstrates the sordid politcal corruption in the beltway. Somebody has the goods on him....the mafia perhaps. Maybe the other mafia prncess Nancy "no blink" Pelosi might know something about this latest spectacle.

[scott7278]

I fear that my children and grandchildren will become crying wimps...

...Or shed crocodile tears.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

I hope this issue works out and Voinovich is proven right. But unfortunately, I think he willingly let the Democrats use him. I wrote him a pretty tough letter... just to let him know I care.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[Dubya]

bump

[potlatch]

I only wish to God that we had 61 Senators in the US Senate who thought and acted with this manner of directness and uncompromising principle.

Good article Jeff!

[claudiustg]

He's either a shameless charlatan or mentally ill, or perhaps both. I diagnose Jimmy Swaggart Syndrome.

[Jeff Head]

Yep...pretty embarassing from that perspective.

But in the end, the dining engagements and that sort of embarassment are nothing compared to the injury we are experiencing over the inability for a majority senate to conduct the agenda that got it elected in the first place.

I know you know this...I am just venting in frustration.

[Jeff Head]

Good for you...God bless your efforts and thank you for being involved!

[Noumenon]

My sense of utter betrayal is immense. Surrender is never a winning strategy. This is the sort of thing that brings the inevitable Day that much closer.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I stand behind your reasons too Jeff. But I believe his greatest fear should be that any of those people he refers to as his children and grandchildren, turn out to be as girliemannish as he, even the girls.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you.

[Ann Archy]

I think I figured out why Voiny put up such a spectacle.....Lindsay Graham PAID Voiny a TON of money to act like a FOOLISH WOMAN in order to take the heat off Graham!

OR... Lindsay promised nancy-boy Voiny more funding for his pet project, the Glenn NASA thingy, when he becomes President if he would take the spotlight off him!

These are the only two things that make sense for a man to CRY about a UN ambassadorship!!! It still makes me cringe.

[TAdams8591]

"The UN is corrupt. From the leadership down to many, if not most, of its organizaions and agencies. We need someone to make clear, in unmistakable terms, that the United States of America is done coddling the UN, done paying for the "UN's corruption and abjectly anti-American stance on so many issues, done standing by while nations who are unabashadly totalitarian and violating the civil rights of their own people and others are named to committees that supposedly watch over the civil rights of other member states. The inconsistancies and out and out hypocracy would be laughable if they weren't such serous issues...if American taxpayers were not only being fleeced to support such activities, but American soverignty were not being threatened by them."

Well said.

"It is time that we told and outlined a direct plan for the UN toi either shape up, or for us to end the relationship and invite them to leave our shores...permanently."

Absolutely! Bravo.

[Jeff Head]

Surrender is never a winning strategy. This is the sort of thing that brings the inevitable Day that much closer

Well said. If the Senate Republicans, who are in a majority and whose collegues control the House and the Presidency, cannot confirm a UN ambassador or judicial appointments. THEY NEVER WILL!

Some of them are just downright charlatains and turncoats who are abetting their political oppostion for niceties, personal advancemnt (in the form of promises from the other side of the aisle), and ideological closeness to the other side. In so doing, they are also abetting our enemies IMHO.

If continued (and if it exists in a time when abject enemies want nothing more than to kill us all...then I am afraid it is not going to be abated anytime soon) it will, as you say, lead to an inevitable train wreck...and a very bad one.

[Jeff Head]

I just wish we had someone up there who would take it to the UN just that straight. And I wish they would do so...yesterday.

[Jeff Head]

Many options exist, all the way from he really believes this...to he's made backroom deals in exchange for his opposition...to the other side has something on him.

Whatever the reason, we the people must stand against it.