The Bolton Hearings Placed In Perspective
The Left's pathological hatred of President Bush, coupled with their pathological affection for a Global Test (read: hatred for America), made it a certainty that they would attack any competent nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. So, the current character assassination of John Bolton was to be expected. Biden, Boxer, Kerry and their sick ilk are more interested in hurting GWB that in helping the USA.
IMAO parodies the hearings, this fiction is rooted in truth. To hear the Dems tell it, the State Department lackeys complaining of Bolton's personality must have been raised on soy milk, wimps. We need someone tough at the UN representing our interests, not another Paul Volcher. Bolton has the confidence of the President, (you know him, also known as the leader of the free world), and so he should be the man. And, I, for one, will be gloating when he is confirmed.
Volcher, by the way, is reminding us of Jamie Gorelick; who was directly involved in our anti-terrorism protection during the Clinton administration, then served on the Commission which was tasked to investigate why we were vulnerable to attack. Investigating herself, in part. His insistence that his former staff can not be subpoenaed means he is left to investigate himself, or not. The charges by the former Oil For Food investigators, that the Volker report was too soft on Kofi Annan, need to be looked at by an independent source. Such as the US Senate, lacking a non-partisan forum.
