Vintage Whine
Can you believe that the Democrats have plummeted to such depths of vaccuity that this is what they've resorted to to bolster their insistence that John Bolton isn't "qualified" to be President Bush's ambassador to the United Nations?
"Mistreated" her by "trying to have her fired"? Man, if that's to be the new standard, I sure hope that the half-dozen people who have succeeded in firing me over the years get appointed to high office. At fifteen minutes a pop, that guarantees me at least an hour and a half of fame.
I guess it figures that Finney is a therapist, huh? Although the expression "Physician, heal thyself" appears lost on her if her feelings are still hurt over a "clash" that took place over twenty years ago.
But the most parodous part is ol' Babs herself treating this "latest salvo" as though it were on a par with Mr. Bolton having been uncovered as a "boy from Brazil." Now we're supposed to "probe" he said-she said deritus from a generation back that doesn't even involve sex? [Bleep-bleep Bleep], what is this, junior high school? Or is the idea to get so far down this tangential rathole that nobody even remembers to what office Mr. Bolton was appointed? It certainly does seem lost on his persecutors, whose real core beef with the man appears to be that he would be unlikely to participate in Turtle Bay's, um, "vigorous social activities."
The Democrats are running a big risk with this nonsense. As difficult as it is to plumb the bottom of RINO squeamishness, if the FRC Donks keep up this litany of Mr. Bolton's alleged "serial impoliteness," they'll eventually reach the point where even the George Voinoviches of the Senate will be more embarrassed to buy into this silliness than they will be by Mr. Bolton's foreign policy views and bad haircut.
With the GOP fiasco of last week, FRC Dems, as it were, "drew an inside straight" on the Bolton nomination. It's a hand awfully difficult to overplay.
But if anybody can, it's Barbara Boxer.
[HT: Captain's Quarters]
In a new "allegation" [my quotes] against President Bush's nominee for United Nations ambassador, a woman who worked under John Bolton in the early 1980s has complained that he tried to fire her after they clashed over US policy on infant formula in developing nations.
Lynne D. Finney, now a therapist in Utah, wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Friday, saying Bolton mistreated her when they worked in the General Counsel's Office at the US Agency for International Development. Her accusation is the latest "salvo" [my quotes again] in a pitched battle over Bolton's nomination.
Yesterday, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a Democrat on the committee, distributed Finney's letter to reporters. An aide to Boxer said Democrats will push to include Finney's allegations in the list of claims to be probed.
"Mistreated" her by "trying to have her fired"? Man, if that's to be the new standard, I sure hope that the half-dozen people who have succeeded in firing me over the years get appointed to high office. At fifteen minutes a pop, that guarantees me at least an hour and a half of fame.
I guess it figures that Finney is a therapist, huh? Although the expression "Physician, heal thyself" appears lost on her if her feelings are still hurt over a "clash" that took place over twenty years ago.
But the most parodous part is ol' Babs herself treating this "latest salvo" as though it were on a par with Mr. Bolton having been uncovered as a "boy from Brazil." Now we're supposed to "probe" he said-she said deritus from a generation back that doesn't even involve sex? [Bleep-bleep Bleep], what is this, junior high school? Or is the idea to get so far down this tangential rathole that nobody even remembers to what office Mr. Bolton was appointed? It certainly does seem lost on his persecutors, whose real core beef with the man appears to be that he would be unlikely to participate in Turtle Bay's, um, "vigorous social activities."
The Democrats are running a big risk with this nonsense. As difficult as it is to plumb the bottom of RINO squeamishness, if the FRC Donks keep up this litany of Mr. Bolton's alleged "serial impoliteness," they'll eventually reach the point where even the George Voinoviches of the Senate will be more embarrassed to buy into this silliness than they will be by Mr. Bolton's foreign policy views and bad haircut.
With the GOP fiasco of last week, FRC Dems, as it were, "drew an inside straight" on the Bolton nomination. It's a hand awfully difficult to overplay.
But if anybody can, it's Barbara Boxer.
[HT: Captain's Quarters]
posted by JASmius at 1:09 PM
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