Richard Durbin: Bolton Filibuster Needs ONLY One More Vote

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Richard Durbin: Bolton Filibuster Needs ONLY One More Vote

On "The Young Turks" Radio Show, Senator Dick Durbin says the Bolton bilibuster needs only one more vote to succeed.

Frankly, this is better than I thought we had, and we have until mid-September to wrangle that vote.

The temperature around the Bolton vote is different than last March when the fight had a different kind of political significance.

But remember -- preempting the confirmation of John Bolton as US Ambassador to the United Nations was the first kick-back in a foreign policy matter that the Bush administration had handed to it.

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[babylonsister]

1. Who thinks dimson will vote him in anyway? But this is great news! nt

[Mr_Spock]

7. He won't get paid if * selects him again

I'm sure he doesn't need the money, but it rarely happens this way. He will be a volunteer and may not have much clout as someone not wanted by his own country for the position.

[leftupnorth]

2. so who do we need to work on?

[w8liftinglady]

3. hang up my senators-hutchison and cornyn...who else

[ralps]

4. Hopefully we can pressure HoJo Lieberman!! although knowing him

he'll vote for cloture before he votes against Bolton. But if he loses the August primary who knows what he'll do?? :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :shrug:

[bleever]

5. "Creative chaos" is the ideology of war criminals.

Filibuster. Shine a big, bright light on the people who find war and "collateral damage" to be useful tools.

[w4rma]

6. Sweet. This will bring the crooks out of hiding. (nt)

[IronLionZion]

8. Who needs to be called? Work on the ones up for re-election.

and definitely the ones leaving office. I believe we need 41 to carry the filibuster.

[Theyareallthesame]

9. This thing is a done deal. Democrats will not filibuster that close

to the election. Bolton will be confirmed.