They. Just. Don’t. Get. It. All the Dems, in this case the Senate Dems, go for the smear tactic. This is school yard tactics. Juvenile.
John R. Bolton planned to ask then-CIA Director George Tenet to help punish a government intelligence analyst who disagreed with Bolton, and then misled a Senate committee about the matter, says a Democratic draft report obtained by The Associated Press.
Bolton pushed for months to have the analyst removed from his job or otherwise disciplined, but testified under oath at his confirmation hearing to be United Nations ambassador that he "made no effort to have discipline imposed" on the man, the report said.
"Bolton’s effort to minimize the significance of his efforts is disingenuous," said the report from Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In support of their allegations, the Democrats referred to e-mails and other documents that have not been publicly released.
Let me reiterate that. Have not been publicly released. By all means, let’s smear someone without giving the People a chance to review the evidence. Will they make them public? I would suspect that the answer will be a resounding "No." It also makes me wonder whether they obtained those "emails and other documents" in a legal manner, if they in fact exist.
We know that at least a portion of 48% of the US population are sheeple and will believe anything that the Dem leaders write and say. For the rest of us right thinking folks (you can take that both ways), we know that what it comes down to is hatred. Hatred of Bush. Hatred of the Republican Party. Hatred of Christian values. Hatred period. The dems axes are getting rather blunt at this point. They have been trying to chop down the same tree for a while now, and aren’t getting anywhere. Could they even offer a better candidate, one that would satisfy both parties? I would doubt it.
Ah now, I don’t think smear tactics are exclusive to the Left. We all enjoy a little mudslinging. Feels good, stretches the arm and if you hit them, the opposition looks pretty silly.
Bolton is not my idea of a diplomat. I’d love to suggest some other demanding but august presence but I’m not moving in those kinds of circles these days.
I don’t argue the point that the U.N. has some issues. One of them being, in my mind, that they are here and not someplace else – like the UK or someplace in Europe.
Whether they actually need “managing” well – we don’t own them and I think that’s what gets in the craw of the Right. Not enough control over what goes on. But it’s an international organization and we’re not meant to be in control.
Are there abuses and mafia-like tactics? Undeniably.