Clemons: Cracks in Pro-Bolton facade? Other names being floated

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000597.html

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TWN has just learned that State Department officials are worried that Bolton's nomination will not go through.

The combination of stone-walling, withholding of key documents, shenanigans related to the long-awaited NSA intercepts and names of U.S. officials requested by John Bolton, dysfunctional behavior questions, and recent relevations about the extent that Colin Powell and Richard Armitage felt they needed to go to guard themselves and U.S. diplomatic efforts from the potential damage that John Bolton might do has seriously undermined the administration's confidence in the nomination.

There is a crack in the facade of the pro-Bolton forces.

The Office of the Vice President and the Secretary of State refuse to acknowledge that the Bolton nomination is limping -- and there has been a tremendous game of psychological warfare underway to convince Bolton opponents that a party line vote is on its way.

This is not the case -- at least not by my read of circumstances.

. . . more interesting stuff

I SO don't want Bolton to be confirmed; I think he would be a disaster for the US and a dreadful coup for the admin. Please, let this be correct!

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with staff contacts not only in Senatorial (including Lugar and Hagel's) offices, but also at State and White House.

Remember, just like on Social Security, when you think the battle has got to be over (for rational people, anyway), the White House gets more stubborn, stupid, and truculent.

(Is that even possible?)

If there are cracks we don't want to alert anyone by putting it on DU front page..:shrug: I'm just hoping this is true. We've had so much bad news today.

"There are several names quietly being floated as the back-up alternative to John Bolton, the most prominent and impressive of whom is Paula Dobriansky, currently Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.

There are others being discussed, but TWN has not confirmed how serioualy these other candidates are being considered. . .while TWN has confirmed that back room gossip is that Dobriansky is a strong alternative candidate.

The Center for Security Policy has cynically argued that those who oppose John Bolton are really just sore losers about the 2004 Presidential Race. I disagree, strongly.

The question for Frank Gaffney and his allies is whether they can live with Paula Dobriansky. I sometimes find myself at odds with Under Secretary Dobriansky's views -- but also find a lot of common ground. In my view, she is the perfect combination of U.N. skeptic combined with a very seasoned and capable diplomatic touch."

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I sure hope someone is able to post about how this is a horrible defeat for the Democrats, and it would be better to have Bolton in some do-nothing position like UN ambassador, and even though it looks like a clear-cut victory and that's the way it will play in the conventional wisdom, it's really all part of a much deeper game the Bushistas are playing, and the poster has secret information he can't divulge from a source he can't name that would scare us all right down to our skivvies if . . .

WE ONLY KNEW!

{Cue discordant organ crescendo}

because this Amateur Hour at the White House stuff is way past scaring me shitless.

I had a mouthful of Pepsi.

That rocked.

Either Bolton will be kicked to the curb, or he will somehow squeak through the Senate after embarassing and highly publicized hearings and debate.

In which case, no one at the U.N. will pay him the least bit of attention and he will go find a fat contract in some thug think tank, where he can scream at underlings til the cows come home.

Looks like a win-win from here.

The far right (and their fellow travelers in the Bush Administration) are spending conciderable political capital on this project. If they suceed they still blew a big wad of political capital, and if they fail they have nothing to show for their efforts.

Either way, it costs them and with social security and the judge nominations, I can't figure out how the Bush administration can keep so many potential lit petard in the air simultanously.

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is the next nominee they'll pull through. What if he's worse then Bolton but not so out there? What if this next person works silently with their brutality?