Bolton Nomination Vote Now Set for May 12

Bloomberg.com says:

April 22 (Bloomberg) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote May 12 on John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a panel spokesman said.

Well, there ya go.  My guess here is that we’ll see him sent to the floor in spite of it all.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

The Sandiego Union-Tribune reports:

“CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton Marines reacted with glee this morning on learning that Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who once served at the base, was nominated by President Bush to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
‘We’re all standing a little bit taller after hearing the news that a Marine will hold the top job, and we’re very proud of his nomination,’ said Lt. Col. T.V. Johnson, director of public affairs at Camp Pendleton. ‘This is no surprise because he’s been a great Marine.’ “

This would be the very first Marine to hold the post.
I’ll be interested to see if any Democrats try to block this one.

So says Daniel Gross:

The credit card industry presumes, based on happy experience, that Americans will borrow more money each quarter to support their spending habits, regardless of the direction of interest rates, and that enough consumers will be happy simply to pay off just enough debt to allow them to borrow more. But last quarter MBNA, to its apparent shock, found that “results were further impacted by unexpectedly high payment volumes from U.S. credit card customers,” and that “the payment volumes were particularly higher on accounts with higher interest rates.”

And Gross admits, even that the New Bankruptcy law had soemthing to do with this.

Gee, Dan… Ya THINK?

Vegas police have arrested the woman who claimed she found a finger in a bowl of Wendy’s Chili.

Apparently the charge is grand larceny, and is directly related to the Wendy’s case, though polcie aren’t saying much before their 1pm news conference…(5pm eastern)

Little Green Footballs notes the typical grave dancing going on at the all- love and lights Democratic Underground…

FlemingsGhost (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-21-05 10:21 PM

71. Incinerated to dust. Bitch of an occupational hazard, huh?

Rejoice!

There are nine less “Rambo” wanna-be assholes in the world.

There we have it, people… The Democratic party in all of it’s glory.

In doing some research yesterday, I ran across a comment I wrote over at Drezner’s along about Christmas before last. Given the recent votes in TX and CT the other day, it seems appropriate to re-post these thoughts here, for the purpose of stirring discussion. Remember, I am a cultural conservative, and that as such I consider that the laws should not over-ride the culture, given that the very purpose of government is to support and defend the culture that gave it life… and indeed that such government as failed to do that job, loses it’s moral authority to govern.

“‘A prohibition on homosexual unions wasn’t written into the constitution because such things were assumed, and therefore never legally defined.

The problem is a bit more basic, even than a religious question in our increasingly secular society. At it’s root, this is a matter of which will triumph… law and government, or the culture that created said law and said government. Like it or not, the values being railed against by those seeking to install this travisty, are not simply religious values. They are also deep in the roots of our culture. The implications are simple enough to see, then…
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Ah, yes that High-holy day of Anti-Americanism… “Earth day” is upon us.

I’m working today, but I plan to Celebrate Earth day tommrow.. by burning 40 gallons of gas in my Cross Country van. That’s about 800 miles of driving, folks. See a bit of the country, that way.

As to the gas and it’s price… a look at the real situation there tells the story of why I refuse to take ‘earth day’ seriously; A look at the people who set up this monster we’re all supposed to bow down to shows us a group of people who won’t allow refineries or domestic drilling, who demand something on the order of 50 or 60 diferent regional blends… supposedly in the interest of ‘clean air’.

Captain’s Quarters has some of last night’s developments up north. The Captain’s been keeping as good an eye on things up there as anyone on the web. Go read it and then come back.

–Read it? OK….

OK, like I said last week, Martin is burned toast, and so too is the liberal party, itself. There are now far too many leaks in this dike for Martin to plug, and this thing is gonna come crashing down with a fair force of water behind it… and Martin’s play for time last night will not work. There’s no question in my mind; We’ll see June elections.

But there seems to me other fallout, too.

In watching the CBC coverage last night…(Yeah, I know, I know…) an interesting shift at the CBC seems to be occurring. The tone is different at the CBC as of last night; The shift was to me rather dramatic; Now that the Liberals are toast, they seem to be leaning toward the NDP, and Jack Leighton, or so it seemed to me. They certainly, it seemed to me, tried to paint the picture that Canadian voters were doing so. They went to great lengths to play up Leigton’s call for Martin to remove the so-called suprise corporate tax cuts form Martin’s proposed budget, and get it out to the floor for a vote. Just what you’d expect from the socialist NDP, I suppose… Leighton has a history of never meeting a Job killing tax he didn’t like.

Still, this whole situation is a bonanza for Leighton of course, if he plays it right, and even without the CBC suddenly changing aim. No matter what happens, he and the NDP come out stronger, as those to the left end of the Canadian Liberal party seek a new home. It’s true, Leighton can only gain seats out of this, unless, as I say, he screws this up.

But despite the picture being painted here by the CBC, It’s Harper’s conservatives that really stand to gain. And that scares the living crap out of the socialists at the CBC. Or so I picked up last night.

But there’s other impacts here, too and far more than a simple shift in party loyalty among the Canadian Left. The wild card here, it seems to me, is the Bloc, and the entire question of Quebec. The Bloc is literally screaming that they were cheated in the most recent referendum on sovereignty, which if I recall right was in 1995 or ’96.. and the leader of the Bloc last night stood up and demanded Martin offer ..”an apology to the Quebec nation. ” (Emph mine)

Well, gee, boys and girls… Guess what these Bloc people are planning on doing? No matter who gets the seats, the Bloc will be pushing for yet another referendum on sovereignty, and this time they’ll be table pounding even worse than before (Bad as they got the last time out), and will demand things the rest of Canada simply will not even consider, particularly given the rise of the Conservatives in the wake of the Liberal’s behavior and their resulting fall from grace.

I dare to suggest to you something I’ve not seen others do….that the Canadian federation itself is threatened.

Let that sink in a moment.

I offer congrats to the Liberal party of Canada; If they have not utterly destroyed Canada as a country; they’ve come damnedably close to it.

There’s impact here for the US as well… and Americans should be watching all of this with a wary eye, I think. If the liberals have been successful in destroying the federation, then it seems to me we here in the ‘States have a major security issue on our hands.  Canadian border security has long been non-existent. For good or ill, this was a conscious choice on the part of both countries. Of late there have been tensions between Canada and the US as regards Canada’s immigration policy, given that because of the lack of real security along the US Canadian border, Canadian immigration policy becomes the Defacto, back-door US policy.

What will that Canadian border policy become when Canada is itself in such disarray?

If the Canadian federation goes belly up, our security situation, along our largest border becomes dire, indeed. We need to prepare for that eventuality.

Update:
One reader writes me today with the comment that he was a bit shocked Martin hadn’t tried to toss Cretien to the hounds last night.

I noted that too, but I take that as damage control, within Quebec. After all, a goodly amount of the reason Martin has a job is because of the Quebec voter… who if you’ll recall, supported Cretien pretty strongly. Consider Martin’s problem, here. As unpopular has Martin is elsewhere in Canada, he’d be in even worse trouble overall if he alienated French speaking Canadians by being seen as dumping on Cretien, to save himself.

(Re-edited for clarity)

Man Without Qualities Robert Musil, who really HAS to get his permalinks fixed in the CSS, writes today regarding the 9th Circus Circuit Court of Appeals, and how they have a tendency to get overturned 9 to nothing quite a bit.

The article goes into some rather heavy detail, but there’s a rather disturbing pattern in the type of cases they’re losing. In every case, the rulings they hand down swing wildly left.

RTWT