What is BushCo Doing?

Martin Longman

19 years ago

Okay. I watched the Frog, er, Karl Rove on Hardball. And among other fatuous things, he said that they are going to continue to stonewall on the Bolton documents, and to insist on an ‘up-or-down vote’. Then I read this in the Washington Post:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced today that he had no plans for calling another vote on John R. Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, calling it a pointless exercise. But about an hour later, after a meeting with President Bush, the Tennessee Republican did an about-face: He will continue pushing for a floor vote on the controversial nominee after all.

“The president made it very clear that he expects an up-or-down vote,” Frist told reporters in the White House driveway after he joined other GOP lawmakers for a luncheon with Bush. “It’s not dead.”

For the life of me I can’t figure out what they’re up to. Frist wants to let Bolton die. Bush wont let him. The Dems aren’t backing down. A recess appointment is their only chance. Right?

So, why push for another vote? Is this about judges? Or is it just a way for someone in the administration to continue the humiliation of John Bolton? Or something else?

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