Posted on 07/27/2006 7:28:22 PM PDT by Gondring
It would be no exaggeration to say that yesterday's confirmation hearing for John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was a washout.
Three hours into the dreary and desultory proceedings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a torrent of water began to pour from light fixtures in the ceiling, creating a waterfall between the nominee and the senators.
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As it happens, the cascade provided a fitting coda for a hearing in which both sides seemed to be suggesting that the administration's foreign policy -- at least the one unveiled during President Bush's first term -- was all washed up. Neoconservatives dreamed that the flexing of American muscle in Iraq would cause the world to fall in line behind U.S. leadership; instead, the administration is struggling to build consensus at the United Nations on Iran and North Korea and discouraging any whisper of unilateralism or preemptive military strikes.
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Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) [...] gushed: "One of the concerns everyone had was you might go up there and do your own thing and didn't understand how important consensus was. And I think you've been very, very active in working on consensus."
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[Russ] Feingold, too, was in the strange position of scolding Bolton for being insufficiently tough on Iran, North Korea and the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Throughout the session, Bolton dropped nuggets sure to offend the hawks. He said he "unequivocally" thought the United States should pay its full U.N. dues. He said there should "absolutely" be a "viable, contiguous Palestinian state." And, after aides distributed his prepared testimony to reporters, they returned with a revised copy that excised a sentence defending the Israeli military action in Lebanon.
That dripping sound was the lifeblood draining out of the neocon movement.
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Neocon agenda is Washington code for pro Israel/Jew agenda. Just more leftist anti-jew lingo, right off Kos.
Nary a mention of Obama or Kerry and their idiotic performance today. Bolton waxed them both.
Peach, your accounts are the funniest thing I have read in months! I wish I could have seen and heard it firsthand.
John Bolton mopped the floor with them. Sweet payback for him, I'm sure.
No, his partner Dana Milbank.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the thread, JustaCowgirl! It was a funny thread. I don't know if you read but the leak turned out to be from a bathroom. Eeew.
Dana-s a "she" isn-t "he"?
DRIP DRIP DRIP......
Wrong, Dana Milquetoast, that dripping sound is the drool leaving your chin and hitting your keyboard.
What a biased pathetic fool.
There is no "off the record" when a Republican darling is trashing a GOP president.
It's OK, Dana Milquetoast knows that his main job is to run interference for the Demagogues, so when they make fools of themselves as they did today, all Dana cares about is creating distractions so that no one will notice.
btw, if Dana had a sex-change operation would anyone be able to tell him/her/it apart from Maureen Dowd? Actually, I begin to suspect that Dana Milbank and Maureen Dowd are one and the same person -- has anyone ever actually seen them together?
Absolutely. Biased, that is. But who is more pathetic or foolish; he who slings the chum, or he who takes the bait?
"What a mess we now have in Washington. thanks, Dems, for putting your politics above our country."
Yeah it's disgusting.
Looks like someone finally listened to the Dog.....
Either that, or someone on his staff is a FReeper.
LOL, so the senate leaks. What else is new? |
No? Then who the hell was Steele talking about when he brought up Katrina (an obvious pander to blacks) and the Iraq War?
You think this guy can do no wrong, but he lost a lot of respect in the GOP today.
That's no big deal, though, since he said being a Republican ain't so hot anyway.
Not that I believe what Dana Milbank writes, but if this is even somewhat accurate, then maybe I've had the wrong idea about Bolton all along. If this is true, then screw him - - I don't care what happens to him.
We flexed and they did fall in line, and we are still flexing and they are still falling in line. Next: Iran and N.Korea.
Count on it.
I do not accept these cries of defeatism for the neoconservative movement for one second.
"Lifeblood dripping out of the neocon movement." This will not be caused by one person. If anything, this hearing is just revealing the Truth about the situation. Clarification is always good.
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