Bolton - the telenovela continues
i don't think anyone thought that filling the u.s. ambassadorship to the u.n. was going to turn out to be a watershed event for the bush administration... i've posted extensively on bolton (here, here, here, and here, among many others) but no one has done a better job of staying on top of the details, making the right contacts, and clearly reporting the situation than steve clemons at the washington note... (go visit steve here for the latest...)
bushco has proposed and been supported on a number of other, equally bad, candidates for major offices but, it turns out, none of them have been as blatantly noxious as john bolton (view this video)... when the real character of bolton began to emerge in the foreign relations committee hearings, the scales started to fall off lots of eyes, a number of which belonged to republican senators...
as the thick plottened (sorry, i just have to throw in something off the wall every once in a while), suspicions were raised that bolton was more than he appeared and very likely operated as a bush/rove/cheney litmus-tested plant in the state department who felt he had license to do whatever it took to keep the troika happy... the deeper the senators dug, the more sordid the tales that emerged, the most sordid of which suggested that bolton was actually spying on other administration officials...
in the meantime, the arrogant, megalomanical troika characteristically refused to budge even though their boy was slowly turning radioactive... they continued playing psychological games with the media, issuing statements like "bolton's confirmation is assured," and denying the senators' request for release of the very documents that could speed the nomination to passage (or scuttle it)... the senators, now rightfully indignant that information crucial to their advise and consent role is being withheld, have their backs up... most interesting of all, several of them are republicans...
it's so typical of bushco to play chicken... maybe this time, they're not going to be able to get out of the way of the train in time...
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bushco has proposed and been supported on a number of other, equally bad, candidates for major offices but, it turns out, none of them have been as blatantly noxious as john bolton (view this video)... when the real character of bolton began to emerge in the foreign relations committee hearings, the scales started to fall off lots of eyes, a number of which belonged to republican senators...
as the thick plottened (sorry, i just have to throw in something off the wall every once in a while), suspicions were raised that bolton was more than he appeared and very likely operated as a bush/rove/cheney litmus-tested plant in the state department who felt he had license to do whatever it took to keep the troika happy... the deeper the senators dug, the more sordid the tales that emerged, the most sordid of which suggested that bolton was actually spying on other administration officials...
in the meantime, the arrogant, megalomanical troika characteristically refused to budge even though their boy was slowly turning radioactive... they continued playing psychological games with the media, issuing statements like "bolton's confirmation is assured," and denying the senators' request for release of the very documents that could speed the nomination to passage (or scuttle it)... the senators, now rightfully indignant that information crucial to their advise and consent role is being withheld, have their backs up... most interesting of all, several of them are republicans...
it's so typical of bushco to play chicken... maybe this time, they're not going to be able to get out of the way of the train in time...
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posted by profmarcus at
6/23/2005
