Posted by: Dale Franks on Thursday, May 26, 2005 It only took 72 hours for the Senate's newfound comity and bipartisanship to break down, resulting in a filibuster on the nomination of John Bolton to the UN as ambassador. Democrats say that they aren't filibustering. They just are voting against cloture, which is, like, totally different. Besides, the deal was on judicial nominees, anyway, so go suck it. So, the UN will remain without a UN ambassador until at least early June. The reason for the vote, according to Democrats, is that the Administration—specifically the State Department, won't run over some documents that they vitally need to ensure his qualifications for the job. The papers in question, however, are highly classified documents that detail intelligence sources and methods. Redacted versions of the documents were considered unacceptable by the Democrats. The State Department, referring to the Senate's famed inability to keep such material secret, has categorically refused to turn those unredacted documents over to the Senate. Moreover, they state that the Department will never allow the Senate to see unredacted originals. In my opinion, State is quite right to make that determination. In reality, the Democrats are doing nothing more than seizing on the documents as a pretext to hold up the Bolton nomination. The true problem is that the Democrats disagree with the president's policies, and they don't want to nominate Mr. Bolton, who would be an effective advocate for those policies. It's purely political, in other words. |
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