[Changleen]

Wow, we really are cleaning out the trash this week! Since the Dems are now in power, it is almost certain that John Bolton will be removed as ambassador to the UN. Rock on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6134734.stm

Ambassador Bolton 'next casualty'

Democrat gains in the US mid-term elections have all but killed off John Bolton's prospects of staying on as the US ambassador to the UN.

His appointment was temporary as he failed to get the backing of the US Senate with a Republican majority.

On Thursday, the White House resubmitted Mr Bolton's nomination for the Senate's approval.

But Democrats have indicated that they will continue to block the appointment of the conservative Mr Bolton.

Even when the Republicans were in the majority, US President George W Bush could not persuade the Senate to confirm John Bolton as his controversial choice.

He was forced to appoint the outspoken diplomat while Congress was in recess, making the job only temporary.

Last chance

The White House now has one last chance for the president to use his Republican majority before the new Senate convenes in January.

But the Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, who was defeated in the US mid-term polls, still says he opposes Mr Bolton's appointment.

Mr Chafee said: "I am not going to endorse something the American people have spoken out against."

Democratic Senator Joe Biden, who is likely to chair the Foreign Relations Committee, said he saw no point in considering Mr Bolton's nomination.

Mr Bolton may soon be the second high-profile casualty - after Donald Rumsfeld - in the Bush administration following the mid-term elections.

W00t!

 

[Reactor]

Wow, we really are cleaning out the trash this week! Since the Dems are now in power, it is almost certain that John Bolton will be removed as ambassador to the UN. Rock on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6134734.stm

W00t!

Not only that, but the people who received recess apointments as federal judges still have to be confirmed, and they sure as hell won't be now.

 

[Changleen]

Good point! Wow this week owns!

 

[Reactor]

Good point! Wow this week owns!

Yes it does...

 

[jimmydean]

Bolton is the best example of just how great our president is! Take a guy that doesn't believe in the UN and make him the ambassador, that rocks.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Bolton is the best example of just how great our president is! Take a guy that doesn't believe in the UN and make him the ambassador, that rocks.

Are there guys who believe in the UN?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Are there guys who believe in the UN?

Isn't the UN like the Imperial Senate?

 

[$tinkle]

Good point! Wow this week owns!

this is one fisting i won't soon forget. gonna start watching "i spit on your grave" over & over and get into travis bickle character.

 

[Westy]

The UN has become irrelevant because we made it irrelevant when it didn't do what we wanted.

 

[LordOpie]

Isn't the UN like the Imperial Senate?

Yes, but in this case, the Emperor is Jar Jar.

 

[Silver]

Are there guys who believe in the UN?

Having Bolton as UN ambassador is like installing me as the pastor of an evangelical church.

 

[stevew]

Are there guys who believe in the UN?

Yes.


I also believe in unicorns.


And the power of prayer.

 

[DaveW]

The UN has become irrelevant because we made it irrelevant when it didn't do what we wanted.

I'd have said it's only irrelevant to you guys a it's not staffed with American yes men.... To most of the planet it still matters.

 

[blue]

The UN has become irrelevant because we made it irrelevant when it didn't do what we wanted.

Exactly...there's a bunch of dumbasses in S. Utah in the town of La Verkin (near RBR Virgin etc) who declared their podunk town a "UN-Free Zone"...Hicks need to understand it was US who made the UN worthless.

 

[Westy]

Exactly...there's a bunch of dumbasses in S. Utah in the town of La Verkin (near RBR Virgin etc) who declared their podunk town a "UN-Free Zone"...Hicks need to understand it was US who made the UN worthless.

Was it because of that or the New World Order whack jobs that thought the UN was going to take over the US government and "take our guns away". I worked with some of those freaks back in '95. It was a good time. The paranoia amused me and they let me shoot all kinds of their cool guns, you know, training be to be a soldier in the upcoming freedom apocolypse. Of course those same folks who were preparing to fight an armed struggle to preserve their freedom are now supporting things like the Patriot act, indefinite detention.......

 

[Westy]

Yes.


I also believe in unicorns.


And the power of prayer.

I believe in the power of unicorns.