Republicans Worry About Bolton
by TChris
While Human Events characterizes Democratic opposition to John Bolton, President Bush's choice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as a "smear campaign" -- apparently because Democrats have smeared the truth about Bolton's unsuitability for the job on the public record -- it reports that Republican misgivings about Bolton may doom his nomination.
With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee set to vote on the nomination on Tuesday, Republicans now fear that they might not have the votes to get Bolton out of committee and onto the Senate floor.
Human Events identifies the potential "turncoats" -- that is, the Republican Senators who might not follow the president's command -- as "[l]iberal GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee" and "presidential hopeful Sen. Chuck Hagel." Here's the Human Events warning to Hagel:
Conservatives in Washington believe that, in effect, a vote against Bolton would put an end to any hopes for higher political office that Sen. Hagel may harbor.
Shorter version: resistence is futile.
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