Posted on 03/08/2005 6:19:09 PM PST by wagglebee
"John Bolton is "tough-talking undersecretary of state." He has "often ignited controversy in his dealings with foreign countries," and so President Bush yesterday nominated him "to be the US ambassador to the United Nations and will replace John Danforth." Bolton is a tough talker. He's right out of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick school. She was ambassador to the United Nations during part of the Reagan presidency. I remember hearing her speak once, it was at UC Davis. I snuck in there because I was not a student but I snuck in there, and I'll never forget. She said: "The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and the other Soviet leaders is that he is alive." You know, and nobody was saying that. Nobody was saying those kinds of things. Well, Reagan was, but I mean you just didn't say that. That was incendiary! That was provocative. Why, that was destabilizing. You didn't say things like this.
John Bolton is like that. John Bolton knows exactly who the Chinese are. He has been running around. He's traveled the world multiple times. He has been working actively to make sure that the Chinese do not sell technology and weapons of mass destruction to Iran. That's been one of his missions -- and, of course, the left is distressed by this. The Senate minority leader, Dingy Harry Reid, called Mr. Bolton's nomination "a disappointing choice and one that sends all the wrong signals." The wrong signals to whom? Sends all the right signals to the bad guys. This is the point, folks. "But he is too big a critic of the UN, Rush, we just can't put somebody in there that is a big critic of the UN!" That's exactly who we need to put in there: Somebody who is going to just not bend over forwards and backwards because it's the UN doing whatever it's doing. This is somebody that's hell-bent on holding the United Nations accountable, and he's not afraid of anything. This is potentially a great nomination. Dingy Harry said, "At a time when President Bush has recognized we need to begin repairing our damaged relations with the rest of the world, he nominates someone with a long history whose opposed to working cooperatively with other nations."
See, this is the huge difference. I'm sure some of you who don't pay a whole lot of attention to these sorts of things every day this is the kind of reaction. You have an appointment and you get a reaction to it, you can throw up your enhances in frustration and say, "What the hell? Why follow any of this? I know that President Bush is going to do X and the Democrats are going to oppose it. There's never going to be any common ground, consensus, all that happy-go-lucky malarkey," but that's what's instructive about this. Let me parse and translate Dingy Harry's words for you. He said, "At a time when President Bush has recognized that we need to begin repairing our damaged relations with the rest of the world..." President Bush has recognized no such thing. President Bush has gone to other nations. He took this European tour and it was not a mend-the-fences tour. Oh, it might have been there, but he didn't go over there to grovel and say, 'You know, what? We were wrong. We want you back on our side." He went over there to lay out the facts of life for these people. We're talking about these western European socialist democracies. These are people on whom no one in the world can depend on for their defense or for freedom or anything else that's worthwhile. Nobody will depend on anybody -- other than the Brits. Nobody will depend on these people. When they have skirmishes in their own backyard they're not able to deal with it, i.e., Kosovo, Bosnia, all these places. We had to go over there under the "auspices of NATO" and do what we did there. It's still because we didn't do it the right way not totally fixed and dealt with, but still the whole premise of Dingy Harry's comment starts off wrong. Then he says, "He nominates someone with a long history of being opposed to working cooperatively with other nations." Now, this is typical lingo from the left. What does Dingy Harry mean by "working cooperatively with other nations"? By letting them tell us how it's going to be, by not making them mad. By working with other nations that also oppose George W. Bush. That's what he means by it. I'll tell you, it's not just these Middle East autocrats that are be surrounded, folks, and isolated, it's the Democratic Party in the United States that is as well. They are surrounded and they are isolated, and their biggest friends are not Americans. Their biggest friends are these European socialist democracies, such as the Germans and the French, and they pretty much have admitted it. From Victor Kamber on Crossfire last week to any number of Democrats, that's who the only allies we have are that matter: The French and the Germans. What really bothers Dingy Harry is that John Bolton, just as Condoleezza Rice is, is going to advance and implement President Bush's agenda around the world and at the United Nations -- and this simply frightens them. They continue to look at the world through a prism of fear...and they probably should. They ought to be afraid of what's happening to them and where they're headed, and their utter lack of ability to stop it.
RUSH: Let's go to Des Moines. This is Joe. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how's it going?
RUSH: Fine, thank you.
CALLER: Great. From Kansas City originally, working in Des Moines this week, just got a point about Bolton appointment. It's interesting that whenever we're talking about an appointment to say a regulatory agency like the EPA, we're always told that we want a critic of that industry -- say Big Oil or whatever so that they don't cave in to whatever, whatever industry, you know, supposedly would want in --
RUSH: This is an excellent point. This is an excellent point.
CALLER: But why not a critic of the UN?
RUSH: Exactly right! In the and the same thing could be said -- remember when Condoleezza Rice was appointed? The press said, "Oh, no! The president just put in there a 'yes' woman in there. Where's Colin Powell? Where's somebody that's going to oppose the president?" as though Bill Clinton appointed people that opposed him.
CALLER: Right, exactly.
RUSH: You are exactly right. Now that we've appointed a watchdog. Liberals love the watchdogs, right? They want immunity for them, then protection for them. Now that we've appointed a watchdog, the liberals are confused and upset and angry -- and I'll tell you why. You know the answer, don't you?
CALLER: Oh, yeah, sure.
RUSH: The answer is the UN is opposed to Bush just as the Democrats are opposed Bush. They don't want any more people in the Bush administration who are going to be actively defeating the friends of the left and the enemies of George W. Bush. It's pure and simple, plain and simple, and it is again -- I think for those you paying close attention, and most of you are, you're more sophisticated and informed than news audiences have ever been, and you fully understand precisely what the left's words and actions today mean, whereas they used to fool you in the past but no longer.
We don't need to repair relations with the UN, we need to SEVER relations with the UN!
Excluding immigration....With Bush as president I think I've died and gone to heaven!
Great move putting Bolton in there!
http://www.nationalreview.com/gaffney/gaffney200503080750.asp
A Bolt of Good Sense
John Bolton is the right man for the U.N.
Bolton = Kirkpatrick? Could we be that lucky?
Forget about Girlie Man Reid. Ole Jean Kirkpatrick was, and is, a tough old bird - IMO Just what the UN needs and what I hope Bolton delivers.
"This is the point, folks. 'But he is too big a critic of the UN, Rush, we just can't put somebody in there that is a big critic of the UN!'"
Essentially, Bolton critizes the UN on the grounds that it hasn't been prosecuting enough wars and killing enough people. I think I'd describe him as pro-UN.
Kirkpatrick should have been the first woman to be POTUS.
LOL!
Ah! Jeanne Kirkpatrick, wouldn't she have made a great president?
Ah! Jeanne Kirkpatrick, wouldn't she have made a great president?
WTF are you saying?
LOL,This guy said there is no such thing as the UN.
I also liked his lines about knocking 10 floors of the UN and it not making a difference.
The killer is his opposition to just about every UN proposal.
If John Bolton is pro UN, then Senator Jesse Helms worships the ground its on.
Very good appointment Once the circus act from the Dems concludes over the nomination, and the Reps vote him in AS THEY HAD BETTER, The real fun begins. Ashcroft shook up his branch when he came to Washington, Rummy is still shaking up his, Goss is cleaning the CIA, Condi has got state and now Bolton is going to roll up his sleeves and take on the UN. Hard to imagine it getting better.
O.T. Rush also said a few things today that needed to be said. Certainly he has more of an audience than I do. LOL
Reps best chance for success in '08 is to do what WE sent them there to do. And, Hill is not a lock for the nomination. I hope the Reps were Finally paying attention.
We can hope so.
Yet another role model for girls, instead of, oh say, The Olson Twins, or Lindsey Lohan,.
You know, for balance.
I've died and gone to heaven. Great choice!
"Excluding immigration....With Bush as president I think I've died and gone to heaven! "
Thank you for saying this. I have been thinking this for awhile, but afraid to say it out loud.
"a disappointing choice"
Any time the dims are disappointed - I'm happy!!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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