Archives: March 2005

This is intriguing. Bolton’s ethically challenged pettiness rages full throttle in the tale that follows. Do read the three excerpts. First, in November 1987, Legal Times writer James Lyons reported that: The once mighty National Congressional Club has fallen on hard times. The club, the Raleigh, N.C.-based right-wing political action committee associated with Sen.

Lots of right-wing pundits (I won’t call them conservatives — because most conservatives I know are with the centrists and liberals when it comes to the issue of John Bolton) invoked the name of late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in trying to buff up the tarnished image of John Bolton as George Bush’s ambassadorial nominee…

Here is an excellent write-up by David Corn on the long litany of reasons why John Bolton is really up for the wrong job. Amusingly, David forgot he had co-written one of the best pieces on Bolton’s bad side 16 years ago for The Nation.

Citizens for Global Solutions has taken its video clip of John Bolton arguing against the very concept of the United Nations and has turned it into a compelling television commercial. The commercial starts running in TV markets tomorrow. Here is an excerpt from the announcement: On Thursday, March 31st StopBolton.

This was the lead piece in the latest CQ Today U.N. NOMINEE BOLTON GETS SCRUTINY FROM SENATE DEMOCRATS Senate Democrats are digging through John R. Bolton’s record to see whether there is enough controversy in his hard-line views on international security to derail his nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has reported to Stern Magazine in Germany that he was furious that he was misled about Iraq’s WMD programs before his February 2003 address to the U.N. Security Council.

While Senior Vice President at the American Enterprise Institute, John Bolton wrote this about the United Nations: Here is an excerpt that appeared today at ThinkProgress.com: This deep philosophical disjunction between the prevailing ethos of the United Nations and the fundamental American approach to governance is not something that will change in the foreseeable future….

I have spoken to several current and former senior foreign policy officials yesterday and this morning regarding John Bolton. Their chorus is the same. They report that Colin Powell and Richard Armitage hated dealing with Bolton and that Powell did not want Bolton on his team. No one trusts him.

Former Republican Senator and immediate past United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth on what Republicanism used to be about: During the 18 years I served in the Senate, Republicans often disagreed with each other. But there was much that held us together.