another casualty?

[winterbadger]

Key lawmakers said yesterday they would block the nomination of John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, all but killing chances for him to remain in the post past December.

For nearly 20 months, President Bush has tried, unsuccessfully, to get Bolton confirmed in a job he has held since August 2005. Bolton then received a recess appointment after not getting enough support in the Senate.

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and its presumed chairman when the Democrats take control of the Senate in January, said yesterday that Bolton's nomination is "going nowhere."

"I see no point in considering Mr. Bolton's nomination again in the Foreign Relations Committee because, regardless of what happens there, he is unlikely to be considered by the full Senate," Biden said in a statement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901185.html

Let us hope...

Comments

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

My, this has been a good week, hasn't it?

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

oh dear, I read 'lawmakers' as 'lawnmowers'

[winterbadger]

Lawnmowers blocking things, kind of like French farmers with their tractors--I love it!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I am overcome with schadenfreude.

[winterbadger]

NICKY:
Oh, Schadenfreude, huh?
What's that, some kinda Nazi word?

GARY COLEMAN:
Yup! It's German for "happiness at the misfortune of others!"

NICKY:
"Happiness at the misfortune of others." That is German!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Avenue Q. How I love thee.

[winterbadger]

Isn't it the best? One of the many things I have to thank poliscidiva for.

[geekchick]

I like the first sentence of this bit from the front page of cnn.com currently:

This is probably not what President Bush had in mind when he stressed bipartisanship after the Democratic Party's midterm elections sweep. A key Senate Republican has joined Democrats in opposing one of Bush's initiatives for the lame-duck Congress: John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

Gee, if Bush had appointed a more qualified person for the job, and done it the open and honest way, maybe this wouldn't be a problem today, would it?