Tag: confirmation

The House has passed the Senate bill to remove the power of the White House to appoint attorney’s without confirmation. The final vote is 329-78, making the bill veto proof.

CNN has just reported that Bush accepted the resignation of John Bolton at the end of the year (when his recess appointment expires). That means the next ambassador to the U.N. will have to face a Democratic confirmation. I wonder if the Republicans will try to filibuster.

On Michelle Malkin’s other blog “Hot Air”, this is appearing on the front page: Well here is how good that is: President George W. Bush will make a push to get confirmation for John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before power in Congress shifts to the Democrats, the White House said on […]

GOTV. It has been a key ingredient in Republican victories for the past decade. It is also something we need to counter in order to insure a win this November. GOTV is simple. It is the “get out the vote” campaign. Republicans target key demographics on the days leading to the election and on election […]

We hear that the administration “wants to be more upfront with the American people” yet Tony Snow is proving that false: QUESTION: In his news conference with John Howard, was the president giving kind of a backhanded confirmation of the stories that the NSA is compiling telephone lists? SNOW: No, he wasn’t. If you go […]

Remember how horrible it was that the President of the United States lied under oath to congress? My how times have changed. Now it seems perjury is the norm for Washington. It first became evident when Scooter Libby was indicted for the same crime last fall. Republicans quickly took to the airwaves dismissing the charges […]

A day after the State Department reveals that John Bolton in fact did lie on his confirmation questionnaire in regards to being questioned in the last five years by any grand jury or governmental investigation, the White House started dropping more hints of giving him the recess appointment to the UN. This shows the level […]

For those of you who did not have the displeasure of reading the coverage the Washington Post gave to the DSM hearing on Thursday, here is the link. This was a total trash piece and sadly was the only coverage the Washington Post gave to this important hearing. Below is a copy of the letter […]