Washington Note re Bolton: "Senator Leahy, What Are You Thinking?

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000705.html

June 07, 2005

Senator Leahy: What are You Thinking??? Senate Dems Need to STOP CONCEDING When We are Winning!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060700125_pf.html

Senator Leahy is opposed to John Bolton but seems to want to convey that in the end John Bolton is going to squeak through. This comment is not only wrong-headed but undermines the very hard work and serious effort expended by the many outside the Senate who have been doing battle on the Bolton nomination -- and undermines Leahy's Senate colleagues Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Barbara Boxer, and others.

I do not want to make gratuitous comments about Leahy now, but I do want to say that there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with a political party that keeps conceding defeat before the battle has begun -- or wants to forfeit the possibility of winning when in fact those OPPOSED to John Bolton have been the ones WINNING this effort.

The battle we are waging is over JOHN BOLTON -- not Senator Patrick Leahy. But for those of you who feel so inclined, don't let me keep you from calling his office at 202-224-4242.

If you do contact him, be respectful. Senator Leahy is a good guy on most issues, and I hope he will retract his statement or recognize in an alternative statement that there are moderate Republicans in play, who might defect from the White House (or at least there were before Leahy's comments).

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[jean]

1. hmm, it's like saying it makes it so. Truly, we are dolts on audio or when

having to ad lib.


edit - correct sp