Does it seem mind-boggling to anyone else that whereas the “Super 14” were so focused on preserving Senate institutions in the judicial case that they oddly seem to have little respect for that same issue in the Bolton matter? Dianne Feinstein has actually said that she may support cloture on the Bolton nomination — but…
During Senator Lugar’s opening statement on the very first day of hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he established a three point test of the “fitness” of any nominee for a position when considering the nominee’s past record and statements. Let me remind readers what those three essential issues, in Lugar’s mind, were: 1….
Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff have a nice overview on how the NSA intercepts controversy is surfacing like a semi-concealed submarine in the Bolton debate. This story has been percolating for weeks, but few have serious journalists have looked at the triple layer chess confrontation that is being waged by multiple players in this process….
Senator Joe Biden also gave one of the many excellent statements on the floor of the Senate today opposing the Bolton nomination. His commentary was well organized, methodic, empirical and well substantiated, and seductive. This combined with statements by Dodd, Rockefeller, Voinovich and others has created a tangible momentum against Bolton’s nomination.
Senator Rockefeller, along with many of his Republican and Democratic colleagues, gave a compelling and powerful roster of reasons to reject Bolton and to encourage the President to reconsider this nomination.
This is the latest from a Senate source on what is expected tomorrow (Thursday) in the Battle over Bolton: following is the expected procedure for the bolton votes tomorrow: debate will continue until 6 pm tomorrow.
Senator George Voinovich has made the enticing offer to his Senate colleagues that he will share with them “what he knows” about why Bolton was nominated to the U.N. Ambassadorship position but is unwilling to state publicly on the floor. He has invited his colleagues to ask him what he knows in private.
Senator Rockefeller comes through with a letter on the NSA intercepts. He has concerns and is speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate this very moment about his concerns about John Bolton.
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