New York Traitor Times Giddy Over Bolten
John Bolton’s decision to resign as America’s envoy to the United Nations was a wise move. He averted a distracting and divisive fight at a time when both Congress and the Bush administration have better things to do. He has also provided President Bush with an opportunity to show the kind of bipartisan leadership he talks about so frequently and exercises so seldom.
This page opposed Mr. Bolton’s nomination in the first place, arguing that at the very minimum, an ambassador to the United Nations should be someone who believed the organization deserved to exist. Mr. Bolton has always been hostile to the U.N., and to the whole spirit of consensus-seeking diplomacy it embodies. When Democrats and moderate Republicans kept the nomination tied up in the Senate, Mr. Bush characteristically insisted on having his own way by giving Mr. Bolton an interim appointment while Congress was out of session.
Lincoln Chafee, Hero to the NY Times:
But the interim appointment was about to expire, and the battle would have had to begin all over again once the new Congress arrived. Attempts to get the lame duck Senate to confirm Mr. Bolton ran aground when Lincoln Chafee, the Republican senator from Rhode Island, refused to support the nomination in the Foreign Relations Committee, leaving Mr. Bolton’s fate hung up on a tie vote.
Mr. Chafee is the prime example of a moderate Republican who was popular with his constituents but who lost his seat because of Mr. Bush’s hard-edge partisanship and insistence on having his own way in Iraq. The White House was left contemplating schemes to keep Mr. Bolton at work without Senate confirmation — like making him deputy ambassador and leaving the top job unfilled.
Note from MI: Writer fails to mention that Chafee voted AGAINST the War in Iraq
Between leaking classified information and clearly cheering for the defeat of the US in Iraq, these people should be locked up.
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