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Posted by Raven on August 1st, 2005
And we have REACTION. President Bush appoints John Bolton as UN Ambassador. The Democrats have gone into subliminal despression. And for a really good laugh, go check out what the KOS freaks are saying.
“The abuse of power and the cloak of secrecy from the White House continues. … It’s a devious maneuver that evades the constitutional requirement of Senate consent and only further darkens the cloud over Mr. Bolton’s credibility at the U.N.” – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
“The president has the right to make this recess appointment, but it’s the wrong decision. It only diminishes John Bolton’s validity and leverage to secure America’s goals at the U.N. John Bolton has been rejected twice by the Senate to serve as our Ambassador to the United Nations. This is not the way to fill our most important diplomatic jobs.” – Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
“At a time when we need to reassert our diplomatic power in the world, President Bush has decided to send a seriously flawed and weakened candidate to the United Nations. It’s an unnecessary result, and the latest abuse of power by the Bush White House. … Bolton arrives at the United Nations with a cloud hanging over his head.” – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
“John Bolton has placed his faith in a unilateral, go-it-alone foreign policy that has stretched our military thin, and I believe his inability to be an effective and constructive ambassador could produce dire consequences for American foreign policy.” -Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Check out Wizbang for commentary; like this:
“When liberal bloggers start breathing again…” LOL I love that sentence.
August 1st, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Ted Kennedy can jump of a fucking cliff (or better yet, a bridge). What an ass! And I don’t mean that in the “I’m staring at Beyonce’s backside” context of the phrase.
Teddy wouldn’t recognize the Constitution of the United States if someone rolled it up and jammed it where the sun don’t shine.
Fuckers.
August 1st, 2005 at 4:23 pm
Sorry for the coarse language, Raven, but I’m pissed off today.
August 1st, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Christ, you know there’s something seriously wrong with your position when Kofi Annan comes across as the voice of reason and intelligence in comparison.
“I think it is the president’s prerogative, and the president has decided to appoint him through this process.”
August 1st, 2005 at 4:38 pm
LOL Bruce, it’s ok. I swear all the time.
YOU have every reason to be pissed off.
The state of MA is full of
FUCKERS. I stand with you in shame and awe of them.
FUCKERS. !!!
August 2nd, 2005 at 2:53 am
You have to LISTEN to what the lefties are telling us here, and listen verrry carefully, lest you fail to realize that they have taken on a vital role in our political structure: That of providing comic relief in troubled times.
It’s pitiful material, but funny nonetheless if you go in for amusement based on the exploitation of total morons like the boneheads on Street Smarts, the airheads Jay Leno interviews on the street, or our own empty-headed, anti-American left.
August 2nd, 2005 at 3:06 am
Kofi is only making nice because he’s afraid that Bolton is going to kick his ass through his face.
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:02 pm
LOL you’re all too damn funny.
And I hope Bolton kicks Kofi’s little ass through his even smaller face.
August 2nd, 2005 at 11:54 pm
:cry:And the Liberal whining continues….
What exactly did these folks expect? They claim that the FILIBUSTER is their constitutional right – a phrase they throw around quite loosely. But when President Bush, who has tried to play nice-nice with these heel-nipping Democrats for nearly half a year JUST TO GET AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE, then decides to exercise HIS constitutional privilege as President? Watch out – because THAT is simply NOT FAIR!
Sen. Christopher Dodd predicted Bolton’s credibility at the world body would be damaged by the recess appointment, since Bush was unable to get the nomination through the Senate. Wait a second…should we not then reassemble the Senate and take a vote? Guess who would win THAT little contest?
Ted Kennedy was, arguably (and predictably) the most vocal about this appointment, decrying Bush’s tactics. What is NOT being widely reported is that Teddy has been a staunch SUPPORTER of the up-or-down vote in years past (when the Dems held majority, of course).
Also, it was his own brother, President John F. Kennedy, who used this same tactic to appoint Thurgood Marshall to the SUPREME COURT during a senate recess…a maneuver that even President Bush would not contemplate (or he might have done that with his current nominee).
Democrats are echoing the charge from these Senate Democrats about how the White House refused to turn over a) communications records Bolton had sought from the National Security Agency while performing his job at State, and b) records of testimony from 2003 referencing Syrian weapons programs.
President Bush, like many of his predecessors, exercised “executive privilege.” This is not only perfectly legal, but common. The president identified this, correctly I think, as mere stall tactics employed by the most cagey and uncooperative sitting U.S. Senate minority party in living memory.
SO we have Ambassador Bolton until January 2007…a strong presence in the corrupt and chaotic United Nations, while otherwise we would have had no official ambassadorial representation until AFTER the silly minority came back to work in the Senate.
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:21 am
One of the qualities I like the most about GWB is that he’s real, a man who doesn’t compromise his values or his identity at all. He does what he feels he must do and screw his opposition, their half baked criticism doesn’t shake him in the least.
I love watching his expressions when he talks about stuff he’s doing that will piss off liberals, there’s always this subtle smile on his lips that lets us know he’s doing something that’ll heat the bastards up a mite.
When he announced his appointment of Bolton to the UN and gave his excellent reasons for doing so, that smile was there and it’s great: It’s all he gives the Dems, enough to rattle THEIR cage, otherwise he’s totally cool on the job, while the lefties have to shriek to try to make themselves heard.
I could watch Bush speeches all day and have a great time knowing that this guy is MY President.