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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Readers Agree with TWN on Bolton Documents Filibuster
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Well, it's early in the day -- and there is always the chance that trolls will distort the poll (at bottom of page) that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running, but at this point -- it is not distorted.
The paper asks:
Are nominations as U.N. ambassador important enough to merit a filibuster in the Senate?12.9% No, the ambassador represents the country but doesn't determine policy.
31.5% No, not under normal circumstances. But the administration should give senators documents they want.
54.5% Yes, if the nominee is unqualified.
1.1% Not sure or don't care.
Total Votes: 178
While only a couple of hundred votes, the trends are interesting.
More than a majority believe that a nominee to the U.N. Ambassadorship IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH to be filibustered if unqualified or unfit for the post.
And on top of that 31% think that while the position is not important enough "under normal circumstances" to be blocked by filibuster -- the respondents clarify that the administration should provide the Senate-requested materials and evidence on Bolton. They thus imply that this is not a 'normal circumstance.'
TWN thinks that the editors of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer try a second draft of an otherwise decent editorial.
But yielding on important principles at the heart of the system of checks and balances in our government is not a good thing for important players in America's civil society establishment to be doing.
-- Steve Clemons
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UPDATE: 1:20pm PDT
Are nominations as U.N. ambassador important enough to merit a filibuster in the Senate?
7.8% No, the ambassador represents the country but doesn't determine policy.
26.7% No, not under normal circumstances. But the administration should give senators documents they want.
64.9% Yes, if the nominee is unqualified.
0.6% Not sure or don't care.
Total Votes: 349
And I wonder how much of the change against Bolton is because of this site directing people there? Not that better informed people don't deserve a vote...
Seems the public "gets it" with regard to denying confirmation of an unqualified nominee. Also, the White House's stonewalling of the requested documents is, in the view of the repondents to this poll, "extraordinary circumstances". That should, under the terms of the Group of 14 Compromise, permit a filibuster without the possibility of the nuclear option succeeding should Frist try it.
Steve,
I suspect that the more informed readers (in a scientific poll) -- i.e. those who have studied Bolton's miserable track-record, would vote resoundingly against Bolton's nomination...
Those who listen to Rush Limbaugh's mendacious brain-washing neo-con propaganda re-gurgitated from Karl "Joseph Goebbels" Rove's Talking-Points would be the minority who would support the unfit Bolton...
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Steve,
Why don't you run a poll of ALL U.S. Senators (R, D, I) asking the following question:--
""Senators, would YOU want John Bolton to be YOUR boss?"...
I'D LOVE TO SEE THEIR REPLY!!!
LOL!!!
100% NO, methinks...
Just what is the Bush group doing to those Republican Senators (or threatening them with) to make them so unwilling to vote against Bolton?
The Bush admin. fought tooth and nail with the CIA over the purported claim that Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger but after relentless browbeating were able to 'corral' the CIA.
The Bushies not only lied, they went WAY out of their way to lie and who was the primary person pushing for those claims: None other than John Bolton.
'Nuff said.
Cheney says, "And I think the United Nations, and the president believes the United Nations badly needs to be reformed."
I agree. If you need the United Nations reformed badly, Bolton's your guy. I guess I differ because I'd rather it was reformed well. But I'm a squishy one-worlder that way...
bu$hCheneyCo "reform UN" = "destroy UN," so of course the bully Bolton is perfect for the job.
As of about five minutes ago, the poll sez:
6.4% No, the ambassador represents the country but doesn't make policy.
23.0% No, not under normal circumstances.
70.3% Yes, if the nominee is unqualified.
00.4% Don't know or don't care.
Total votes: 501
Morning all. It appears Steve's readers may have "weighed in" on the poll.
The new line with 528 votes is:
71.0% - Yes, if the nonimee is unqualified
22.3% - No, not under normal circumstances. But the administration should give senators documents they want.
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