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ncMindy

Jul 21 2006, 10:03 PM

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Confirmed: Senate will hold hearings on Bolton nomination, setting stage for new fight

John Byrne
Published: Friday July 21, 2006
Raw Story

Fast-track: Hearings scheduled next Thursday after key critic changes stance

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has confirmed that they will hold a fresh hearing on the nomination of Bush's pick to the United Nations, John Bolton, who failed to be confirmed by the Senate after his initial appointment by President Bush last year.

In a posting on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee website -- which has not been reported previously -- the Committee has publicly confirmed that they will hold hearings on Bolton's nomination next Thursday at 9:30 am ET.

A spokesman for ranking Foreign Relations Democrat Joe Biden (D-DE) said a notice went out this morning.

According to a Biden's office, the senator recently requested a hearing after the Chairman of the Committee, Richard Lugar (D-IN), indicated that Bolton's nomination might come up for a vote again. Bolton was appointed by President Bush during a congressional recess after the Senate refused to appoint him.

More at Raw Story Link

Great, just great....Mr. UN Bolton...timing is everything.

ncMindy

Jul 28 2006, 11:10 AM

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Bolton Is Still Unfit to Serve

The Progress Report. Posted July 27, 2006.

The president wants Congress to permanently appoint John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N., but a year on the job shows just how bad Bolton has been.

This Thursday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold hearings on the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. Bolton was nominated to the post last year by President Bush but failed to win Senate confirmation after a series of problematic disclosures about his past, particularly a record of mishandling intelligence and a pattern of intimidating subordinates.

The timing of this week's hearings is no accident. The White House is attempting to rally support for the Bolton nomination by politicizing the escalating conflict in the Middle East, arguing that this moment of geopolitical peril requires a permanent representative at the U.N. But the truth is that Bolton's record over the past year has highlighted the desire of an individual who was sent to the U.N. not to make it stronger, but to undermine it. Bolton is no more worthy for the U.N. post now than he was a year ago.

Un-Diplomatic

Bolton has managed to offend many U.S. friends and allies in just over a year at the U.N. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) said, "Bolton's performance at the U.N. confirms my conviction that he is the wrong person for this job." Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) added, "Many ambassadors at the U.N. feel that he hasn't done a good job there. He's polarized the situation." Prior to being appointed to the U.N., Bolton was described by a former State Department colleague as "a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy." Representatives of the U.N. member-states now appear to agree.

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A Bolton Reminder:

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Who Is John Bolton?

by Brooke Lierman
March 7, 2005

He has been called a "treaty-killer" and a "guided missile." [i] He is known as the "undersecretary for chads" and the "anti-diplomat."[ii] Recently he called concerns over how many nuclear weapons North Korea possesses "quibbling." [iii] And, former Sen. Jesse Helms thinks of him as "the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at the gates of Armageddon."[iv] And, if President Bush has his way, John Bolton will now answer to the title of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

At first blush, the choice may seem odd. After all, before entering the Bush administration in 2001, Bolton was infamous as a right-wing ideologue opposed to anything and everything that smacked of U.S. cooperation with or support for the United Nations. "If [the UN Secretariat building] lost 10 stories,” Bolton once quipped, “it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

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Research Links for Bolton: Bolton Articles

An less people forget....

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Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection

Cheney's Plan: Nuke Iran
Stand athwart the apocalypse, and shout: "No!"

The Washington Note
by stephen c. clemons

July 22, 2005

SCOOP: John Bolton Was Regular Source for Judith Miller WMD and National Security Reporting

All of the above can be found at JREG Search Links:

JREG Bolton Links HERE

IMHO, Bolton is a sure thing....IF you want to nuke Iran and possibility. He was sent to the UN in order to dismantle it! Lots of info here...

suswah

Jul 28 2006, 11:43 AM

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A Bolton Reminder:

Research Links for Bolton: Bolton Articles

An less people forget....
IMHO, Bolton is a sure thing....IF you want to nuke Iran and possibility. He was sent to the UN in order to dismantle it! Lots of info here...

He held a press conference this morning and talked about IRAN. It seems to be his favorite topic.

And that moustache ~ it really needs a trim.

ncMindy

Jul 28 2006, 12:59 PM

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He held a press conference this morning and talked about IRAN. It seems to be his favorite topic.

And that moustache ~ it really needs a trim.

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July 27, 2006 at 15:41:57

MOLTEN BOLTEN MUST GO

by Allen L Roland

With the ' in your face ' recess appointment of John Bolton by George Bush last year ~ America's neocon face is now clearly visible to the rest of the world. Bolton is a Republican bully and stooge who answers only to Bush ~ who answers only to Cheney and God .

It is the face of unilateralism, obstructionism, arrogance and swaggering hubris which is also the face of the Cheney/ Bush administration . However, this is not the true face of America ~ Only a united opposition to his reappointment to the United Nations will send a needed signal to the Cheney/Bush administration that their agenda is not America's agenda : Allen L Roland

In 2000, it was Howard Baker who put out a panic call for a Republican stooge to disrupt the vote recount in Florida ~ that stooge was John Bolton.

In 2005, Dick Cheney put out a panic call to halt the upgrading process of the U.N and that Republican stooge was, once again, John Bolton ~ America's interim Ambassador to the U.N.

Make no mistake about it, John Bolton is the ugly, self serving face of the Cheney/Bush Administration's neocon agenda and he answers only to them ~ not America.

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Iran seems to be our next agenda, John Bolton is Mr. Fixit!

suswah

Jul 28 2006, 01:34 PM

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In 2000, it was Howard Baker who put out a panic call for a Republican stooge to disrupt the vote recount in Florida ~ that stooge was John Bolton.

Don't they mean James Baker?

suswah

Jul 28 2006, 11:04 PM

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Lincoln Chafee changes to 'not decided' on Bolton

RAW STORY
Published: Friday July 28, 2006

A Republican senator who signaled his intent to vote to confirm John Bolton's appointment as US Ambassador to the UN last year has now come out as 'not decided' on the controversial Bush pick, RAW STORY has learned.

A report in today's Congressional Quarterly quoted the spokesperson of Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island as stating that "has not decided how he would vote in committee" on whether to release John Bolton's nomination to the whole Senate for confirmation. Last year, Chafee voted with Republicans in the Committee, and also in favor of invoking cloture on a Democratic filibuster of the nomination.

During Thursday's confirmation hearing, Chafee brought some tough questions to Bolton, at one point declaring of a statement the ambassador made about the conflict in the Middle East "you're a brilliant man. That statement doesn't make any sense. Terrorism is a device. There's got to be something deeper for the root case."

Chafee is struggling in his campaign for re-election for this November. A recent poll showed him just behind his Democratic contender with many voters undecided, and his fundraising during the second quarter lagging. Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh also called for Chafee to be "out of the senate."

Raw Story

I watched the replay last night ~ Chafee was glaring at Bolton when he questioned him.
We need to call Chafee's office and support him in this decision.

andrew6565

Jul 29 2006, 08:42 AM

I find it utterly amazing that this president picks and chooses people and appoints them to positions where they can manipulate and control whatever entity their involved with. It's so obvious and he never tries to hide it. like the CIA choice....a military man...how convienant was that? and WhiteHouse spokesman? Tony Snow from right wing slanted Fox news?? among many other candidates out there....and the ever crucial need for bi-partisonship in a pool of snakes....heavyweight contenders get chosen who only add to the dividing wall that is constantly growing wider......the uniter not a divider scheme was clever wasnt it?
it seems that what the agenda calls for...thats who he appoints....and I always hear about a fight coming on the hill over this choice and that choice...but nothing ever happends and shortly after....the nomination passes and everyone stands around helpless. When this evil doer is removed from power...every single action he has signed and every single nominee he has appointed...should be reversed and removed....other than the Supreme Court picks....were stuck with those for life......but this country should not be held hostage by choices that a madman has created and pushed onto Americans, blatenly and without remorse.
I sometimes think he is constructing an agenda and putting people in place simular to the nazi movement and building a system which allows for total government control and military domination.

65 Rambler Lady

Jul 30 2006, 05:14 PM

Oh Andrew....you missed the most important thing of his tenure - - I am so disappointed you 'forgot!' LOL!!

He campaigned on the 'promise' to RESTORE INTEGRITY AND HONOR TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

oops. He musta forgot that one or Rover and his pit bull hughes did. Course, maybe THEIR TEXAS (sorry to all the 'good' texans out there) definition of 'honor.' It's hard to type Bush and honor in the same sentence....try it. you'll see what I mean.

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