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November 9, 2006
Bolton is Dunzo!
New York -- NewsMax has learned that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will likely leave his post next month.After a rocky series of Senate confirmation hearings, Bolton was sent to the U.N. by President Bush in August 2005 under a recess appointment. That allowed the president to bypass Senate confirmation while it was in recess, but the appointee could only serve for the length of the current Congress which is set to expire at year's end.
There had been indications that Bolton might win Senate confirmation after the election when several key votes might be open to favoring Bolton. But the GOP's apparent loss of the Senate has doomed that hope.
"This nomination is dead and we have known it for several days," a source close to the U.S. mission to the U.N. tells NewsMax.
This nomination never was. Anyone that thinks otherwise is delusional! He shouldn't be representing us at the UN to start with! Good riddance!
Via NewsMax.
Posted by Dianne at November 9, 2006 1:04 PM
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I don't know if I would count him out yet. The GOP has been whispering about having an emergency session of Congress before the take over happens to ramrod agenda items like Bolton through before the Democrats are in charge. Which would be in keeping with their radical hyper-partisan thinking. I bet the "moderate" Republicans would happily go along with it and then act all outraged after the fact. So I think this maybe a little of Americans counting their chickens before they hatch. The GOP is really angry right now that we didn't embrace their hate ideology once and for all. Expect some sort of retaliation from them.
Posted by: Jamison at November 9, 2006 1:35 PM
But there were a lot of Republicans who didn't like him either.
Posted by: Dianne at November 9, 2006 1:45 PM