Barbara Boxer is a big fly who’s digging into the presidential ointment right now. She’s throwing up her hand to slow down the Bolton nomination. The Republicans need a simple majority to overturn her objections but a number of moderate Republicans are starting to get squashed by the Republican hardliners who will uphold the President’s agenda no matter the situation.

The White House says this is just a delaying tactic.


Senator Boxer (D-Ca) threw up her objections in an effort to get more documents from the State Department; documents the State Dept. failed to turn over to the Senate Foreign Relation Committee.

Talk about delaying tactics.

Some moderate Republican senators have said flat out they don’t like Bolton for the job. Senator George Voinovich laid into Bolton during committee meetings although he did chicken out and didn’t stop him there. He said Bolton was the “poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be"

This is stinging criticism for his party’s president who lobbied personally for Bolton but it ain’t over yet. Other Republicans have expressed concern over the nomination and we can only hope they stand up for their principle and their beliefs and what’s best for America instead of what’s best for Bush, whatever that is. The Democrats must hang together in this fight and work on a few Republicans to come their senses. It’s as simple as that. Someone has to realize Bolton is not in the best interest of our country.

The Democrats are also deciding on whether or not to filibuster Bolton. That would require a super majority. I think Democrats could pull that off. They’re sensing some weakness in the Republican army and they’re beginning to keep assaulting those weak points.

If Bolton believed in the institution it would be one thing but he doesn’t. He’s a bully, quite simply. He’s a bully. He’s denigrates those who don’t do what he tells them to do and in some cases might even attempt to physically assault them. Not exactly, the cool, diplomatic head we want in the U.N.

posted by Stithmeister @ 11:05 AM
 
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