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Bolton Unlikely to Win Senate Approval

Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:21 PM EST
politics, un, ambassador, bolton, john-bolton
Anne Plummer Flaherty, AP Writer

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton listens to statements concerning the Middle East during a Security Council meeting at the U.N. headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree)

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Tom-109442

Ugh...it makes no sense, Bolton has been pushing to reform the bloated and useless UN into something less corrupt and laughable.

  • 2 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:24 PM EST
Byronsnake

Bolton has not been pushing for reform. He's been an obstruction.

  • 4 votes
#1.1 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 7:00 PM EST
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lauracle007

bull meet china shop

he's too gruff for the un.. and yo catch many more bees with honey.

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:37 PM EST
Tom-109442

Oh please, the UN is filled with oppressive arab dictatorships and crazed south American leaders and Bolton is too gruff? I guess sending a wuss would make sense considering our new wussified Congress.

  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:51 PM EST
FL Independent

BS.

Weve have those types of people in the UN for a long time and look at what has happened to the UN. We need someone that isnt gonna stand for the crap that goes on there and forces it into the open for people to atleast show their true colors.

    #2.2 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:52 PM EST
    e.c.

    @Tom-109442

    And is the U.S. aiming to be more oppressive and crazed that those other nations? Maybe that's how you'd like to reform it.

    • 6 votes
    #2.3 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 5:37 PM EST
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    agio

    As my colleagues on the Right have been fond of saying these last 6 years: elections have consequences.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#3 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 3:38 PM EST
    Pamela Drew

    Thank our lucky stars sometimes they're good consequences. The US doesn't give a hoot about the UN except to deploy forces in places where they have controlling influence without visible presence. No, no, Zoellek and the WTO is where all the action is happening. They've been on a privatizing campaign in the ag sector, that's spread like a plague across the globe.

    • 7 votes
    #3.1 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:04 PM EST
    FL Independent

    We dont know yet if its good consequences. I think we need to wait and reserve judgement until they actually start doing something. Yeah its great we got alot of these people out of office but we dont know if we replaced them with anything better. And yes it is possible they can be worse, but it would be in different ways.

    • 3 votes
    #3.2 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:28 PM EST
    agio

    Very wise point, FL Ind, but at this point I prefer the (potentially incompetent) devil I don't know over the (lazy corrupt) devils I do.

    • 4 votes
    #3.3 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:54 PM EST
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    Alan C

    It always seemed rather ridiculous that the guy who didn't even support the U.N. could be an ambassador to it.

    • 6 votes
    Reply#4 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 5:37 PM EST
    Danny McGee

    Exactly. I always considered this one of the more asinine moves of the GOP and I'm delighted it's not going to become final.

    • 1 vote
    #4.1 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:02 PM EST
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    MCLiepshutz

    Actually..Just as well. Can you seriously see JB carrying out policy fostered by the NewWave( yeah.. I like that)? Not a chance. And seriously.. we need someone who knows what diplomacy is. I am not referring, btw, to the diplomacy ala Teddy Roosevelt. Also I reject the assertion that anyone approved by the NewWave will be a "woos". After all.. the "woosies" just managed to clean house by working public opinion fairly well. Read that "hearts and minds". That is a political strategy that has been seriously absent on more than one front for lets see.. um... six years??

    • 3 votes
    Reply#5 - Thu Nov 9, 2006 5:45 PM EST
    lacadaz

    Teddy Roosevelt's motto for foreign policy was speak softly and carry a big stick. It was not yell at everyone and swing the stick around to see what you can hit.

    Bolton was always the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. The whole purpose of the appointment was to show the world body that this administration held them in contempt.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#6 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:29 AM EST
    kandid

    I find it maddening that just one day after promising a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation, Bush pushes two highly controversial (and objectionable to Democrats in the past) issues to pass before congress changes hands. The Bolton nomination is one, the other is the wiretapping legalization.

    Doesn't this just poison the spirit of bipartisanship? I had hoped that the election would wake Bush up to the fact that he can't get away anymore with the stuff he has been doing, but apparently he didn't get the message.

      Reply#7 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:34 AM EST
      FL Independent

      No it does not. Bipartisanship does not mean every decision he makes has to be cleared with the other side. Nor does bipartisanship mean always giving the other side what they want.

      • 1 vote
      #7.1 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:07 AM EST
      munzilla

      This is just politics. Any party would do this. If you knew that you were going to have less power in two months, you'd try to get as much stuff as you could through before that happened. It's just the way the game is played.

      • 3 votes
      #7.2 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:46 AM EST
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      Andrew Benton

      Yea, let's take away the one guy who stands up to the joke that the UN has become.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#8 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:46 PM EST
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