Isn't Bolton doing a good job as U.N. ambassador ??

Question

Then why are the Dems (Joe Biden) saying there is no way he'll get the appointment. Is this just political payback by the Dems ??

Answer 1

The democrats are mad that with Bolton in the UN the money scams will be too closely watched and it will be harder for them to accept payoffs and like the money that was made while the UN, Russia and France were all on Saddam's payroll.

Answer 2

In the heat of the battle over the Florida vote after the 2000 US presidential election, a burly, mustachioed man burst into the room where the ballots for Miami-Dade County were being tabulated, like John Wayne barging into a saloon for a shoot-out. "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count," drawled John Bolton. And those ballots from Miami-Dade were not counted.

Now that same John Bolton is the US ambassador to the UN. "If I were redoing the security council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world," Bolton once said.

Bolton made a play to become deputy secretary of state after the 2004 election, but was blocked by Condoleezza Rice, who understood that his love of bureaucratic infighting would have undermined her authority. Dick Cheney privately promised Bolton that if all else failed he would give him a job on his vice presidential staff, but that proved unnecessary when Bush nominated him to the UN post. Rice announced his appointment, symbolically demonstrating that he reports to her. But Bolton has deep support within the White House, and Rice is a work-in-progress. With Bolton's appointment, the empire strikes back.

Bolton is often called a neoconservative, but he is more their ally, implementer and agent. His roots are in Helms's Dixiecrat Republicanism, not the neocons' airy Trotskyism or Straussianism.

At the state department, Bolton was Colin Powell's enemy within. In his first year, he forced the US withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, destroyed a protocol on enforcing the biological weapons convention, and ousted the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He scuttled the nuclear test ban treaty and the UN conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. And he was behind the renunciation of the US signature on the 1998 Rome statute creating the international criminal court. He described sending his letter notifying the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the happiest moment of my government service".

I dont like the U.N, but I dont like Bolton either. Hes a puppet.

Answer 3

Bolton is a terrible UN ambassador. He hates the whole idea of the UN, and the UN hates him. Ambassadors have to be able to make nice with other people, and he's just not capable of that in this situation. I can't imagine he likes the job very much, either, considering the things he's said about the UN.

Answer 4

Not really. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, voted against Bolton. These are bipartisan concerns.

Answer 5

Very. He is the best we have had there since Moynahan.
Of course it is just payback. It's what I expected from the Dems. Party 1st, country, if at all, a distant 2nd.

Answer 6

The guy with the "got milk?" mustache? Nobody likes him, it's been a fight since the get go. If Bush wants to save what's left of his Presidency, he'll find someone else.

Answer 7

Yes he is!!! The democrats want Bolton out because he takes a tough stand against the weak UN!!!!

Answer 8

Uh no its not payback.
He is either doing a bad job or they are prejudiced against guys with scary bushy mustaches.

Answer 9

yes and yes Dems are allready showing thier ture colors

Answer 10

I think so, to get someone less divisive