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kstewart33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:44 AM
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Lugar has pulled the Bolton nomination.
At least that's what they're saying over at Eschaton.

Link: http://atrios.blogspot.com/
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:50 AM
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1. I see nothing about Bolton nomination at the link you included
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:51 AM
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2. scroll down
it's about the second or third story.
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kstewart33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:51 AM
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3. It's there - "Bolton nomination pulled?"
Read the comments under the head.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:55 AM
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4. Here
Senate panel scrubs vote on Bolton as U.N. envoy

Sep 7, 10:28 AM (ET)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday scrubbed a planned vote on President George W. Bush's bid to keep John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, did not explain why the vote on whether to send Bolton's nomination to the full Senate was removed from the day's agenda and did not say if or when it would be taken up again.

Given Democratic opposition to Bolton's nomination, all Republicans on the committee would have to back him in order to send his name to the Senate with a full endorsement. Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who is locked in a tight re-election bid, has not publicly said how he would vote.

After Senate Democrats blocked a floor vote on Bolton's nomination last year, Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed him during a congressional recess. But that appointment expires in January and the White House wants him confirmed for the rest of Bush's term which ends in January 2009.

http://reuters.excite.com//article/20060907/2006-09-07T142850Z_01_N07313058_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-BUSH-BOLTON-DC.html

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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 10:16 AM
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5. Sounds like
They don't have enough votes in their committee to send him to the full senate meaning there are enough combined democrats and republicans who aren't going to vote to send him on. Lugar wants time to strong-arm the republican hold-outs.

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