Posted on 07/23/2013 2:24:40 PM PDT by Nachum
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, clearing the way for a vote in the full 100-member Senate.
All but three of the panel's 18 members voted in favor of Power, who was expected to win confirmation easily by the full Senate.
Venezuela said last week it was ending efforts to improve ties with the United States after Power vowed during her confirmation hearing to oppose what she called a crackdown on civil society in the "repressive" OPEC nation.
In an echo of the many bust-ups between the two countries during the late Hugo Chavez's 14-year rule, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro demanded an apology and said the United States had no moral right to criticize his government.
The issue did not come up during Tuesday's committee meeting.
Power had been criticized by some conservatives for seeming to suggest, in a 2002 interview, that the U.S. Army might be needed to police the Middle East conflict if either Israel or the Palestinians move toward genocide. Power, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of U.S. failures to prevent genocide, has disassociated herself many times from that comment.
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From the Yahoo news version...
“”The committee also overwhelmingly approved Victoria Nuland, a U.S. foreign policy official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, as an assistant secretary of state.
Nuland had faced questions over her role in State Department communications after the September 11, 2012, attack on American diplomatic outposts in Benghazi, Libya, in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.””
Oh joy.
Sigh.... No backbone by anyone in DC, except on the part of those who are advancing their rabidly anti-American agenda.
Another leap forward for the Coup d’etat on our Republic; Feminists, gays, lesbians, metrosexuals, ‘60’s radicals.. Not a single patriot in this administration. They’re all America-HATERS.
Treasonous scum.
You all do know that Samantha Power is Cass Sunstein’s wife and a virulent anti-Semite, don’t you?
of course the GOPe does nothing
The Anti-Semitic Bitch Mrs. Cass Sunstine is all chubby with the GOP-E.
The Different side of the same coin.
Yep - a lot of folks won’t make that connection. These are two utterly evil people.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Samantha Power:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2379
Even apart from Cass Sunstein she is one scary Leftist.
Another poke in the eye to our allied nation of Israel.
Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations... vowed during her confirmation hearing to oppose what she called a crackdown on civil society in [Venezuela] the "repressive" OPEC nation... Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro demanded an apology and said the United States had no moral right to criticize his government.She'll do nothing about Venezuela except as it benefits other enemies of the US.
Blame this on Senator roger “turncoat” wicker.
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