Hero/Hack: Post-Election
My hero this week is George Allen. He is my hero this week because he conceded. He probably could have made the process drag on via lawsuits, obstruction, and various other methods (see Gore 2000). However, he did the right thing by acknowledging defeat, and allowing Virginia to move forward.
My hack this week is another soon-to-be-out-of-work Senator, Lincoln Chafee. He is the one
reason why one of the brightest and most intelligent Bush appointees will also be out of work soon, John Bolton. FoxNews:WASHINGTON — U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton won't get a hearing before the 109th Congress adjourns, effectively killing any chance he would have of being confirmed for his post.
Members of the current Senate are coming together next week in a lame duck session to vote on remaining spending bills left unfinished before the October campaign season, but they are not going to vote on Bolton, staff members for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told FOX News on Thursday.
Part of Bolton's inability to get through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the result of opposition from Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee.
Chafee, who lost his re-election and is considering whether to leave the GOP altogether, said he has not changed his reservations about Bolton nor does he think now is the time for a fight.
"The American people have spoken out against the president's agenda on a number of fronts, and presumably one of those is on foreign policy," Chafee said. "And at this late stage in my term, I'm not going to endorse something the American people have spoke out against."
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