Senators ready to axe Bolton

[NVMojo]

September 20, 2006

WASHINGTON: John Bolton - US President George W. Bush's controversial ambassador to the UN - is in increasing danger of losing his job next January after renewed opposition to his appointment in the US Senate.

Mr Bush's nomination of Mr Bolton to the UN met such opposition on Capitol Hill last year that he was forced to install the outspoken conservative in the post by means of a recess appointment, when Congress was not in session.

That appointment in August 2005 limited Mr Bolton's tenure to the duration of the current Congress, which concludes on January 3, 2007, unless the Senate formally confirms him before then.

The White House had hoped to get Mr Bolton confirmed this month, but Senate approval is looking increasingly unlikely.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20443402-2703,00.html

[LSparkle]

1. GOOD! He looks like a buffoon sitting there in the General Assembly

Any self-respecting man would shave off that stupid mustache or at least dye it. His behavior is just as embarrassing.

[ecoalex]

5. Bolton and Rice Giddy at Chimpee's speech today at the U.N.

Their child like giddyness was repugnant to me.Anyone else?

[LSparkle]

8. I heard Condi had to take a pee break ... true?

Didn't see more than the first 20 seconds of the speech (once he got to the "9/11" part I tuned out!). Seeing the two of them (who was the third guy, Hadley?) made me think of the Three Stooges.

[pinerow]

15. She also had trouble finding the door...

with any luck we'll show her the door soon...

[saigon68]

31. She's certainly angry enough

[xxqqqzme]

33. I half way expected bolton to jump out of his seat,

after chucklenuts finished, and start hooting he was clapping hard and fast.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. This is great news!

[gademocrat7]

3. We don't need bully bolton as United States Ambassador to the U.N.

It is bad enough that he is a recess appointment. He is part of the shrub cabal that has tarnished our reputation around the world.

[jilln]

4. It is good news, but...

I'm sure Bush has several more equally if not more slimy buffoons to ram down our throats. There seems to be an endless supply.

[mom cat]

21. Where does he find such bozos?

[annabanana]

25. But he IS running out of PNAC signatories...

That, at least, is a finite list.

[leesa]

28. Gary Bauer needs a job, doesn't he?

[warrens]

6. Let's make him Ambassador to Iran

That would be so cool....Maybe they'd ship back his moustache, if it survives.

[partylessinOhio]

7. The handwriting is on the wall - media is blaming him today for NOT

whipping the UN in place and causing the BushFlub today.

[NYC]

14. What Bush flub?

I was on jury duty today. I got to see a television once, and it was showing the Thai coup.

[blue cat]

22. I didn't hear about any

Bush flub.

[Kagemusha]

9. Calm the celebrations. Bush could recess appoint him again.

The only stipulation is that he couldn't be paid from the public purse. You think that'll hurt him?

[mac56]

10. Won't hurt him a bit. It may actually embolden him.

nm

[Kagemusha]

19. I may have to correct what I said..

Some bright boy had a law passed saying no one can work without pay for the govt... with this in mind. Wonder if there's a way around it...

[VegasWolf]

11. Can't we just shoot Bolton instead of axing him? nt

[NVMojo]

12. they'd have to get Cheney to consider it first

[IndianaGreen]

18. Let's feed him some spinach...

and see what happens.

[Olney Blue]

24. Why do you hate spinach...

and E. coli?

[hogwyld]

23. Make him Ambassador to Al Qaida

And they'll send him back piece by piece

[Judi Lynn]

13. Before Bush, US ambassadors to the UN used to be respectable.

He has sent them garbage.

Also, the UN should move outside the U.S. so our right-wing pResidents won't be able to screw with the visas of the ambassadors of other countries and their staffs, a TRULY hideous, shabby, embarrassing, swinish, heavy-handed bit of muscle-flexing.

[IndianaGreen]

16. Compare Bolton to Adlai Stevenson

is like comparing feces to a diamond.

[NYC]

20. Yes, it is.

[goforit]

17. late again

[Generator]

26. I'll believe it when I see it

These chicken shit goose steppers have yet to say nein to anything Herr Bush wants so far.

[saltpoint]

27. 'Was let down by the rest of your post when I realized the verb

'axe' in the heading was metaphoric.

[eppur_se_muova]

29. Good riddance Wally Walrus! nt

[NotGivingUp]

30. well thats good news!

[samsingh]

32. do it already