Saturday, March 19, 2005

Bush to U.N.: screw you! — Mad Dog Bolton's nomination

Bush to U.N.: screw you! — Mad Dog Bolton's nomination
Posted on Saturday, March 19 @ 08:41:23 EST (272 reads)
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Traditionally, a lame-duck president has a two-year window of opportunity to successfully push his foreign and domestic agenda. Karl Rove knows this well.
Since the Bush/Rove/Cheney bullyboy approach worked for them so successfully during their first term, the Administration is using the same strong-arm tactics in its foreign/military policy, and in quickly trying to ram its domestic agenda through Congress.
But something is different this time; there now is an odor of reckless haste emanating from the White House. The result is that they are now making mistakes, big time.
Just two examples: the nomination of John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations, and the Social Security "reform" campaign.....