Sunday, April 17, 2005

 

Hagel May Bolt On Bolton

Has Sen. Hagel telegraphed where he's going on the Bolton nomination?

With a Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote expected Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska was asked whether he would endorse Bolton. "At this point, I will . . . but I have been troubled with more and more allegations, revelations, coming about his style, his method of operation," said Hagel, the committee's No. 2 Republican.

If that's the excuse Hagel's looking for, the evidence is already out there:

“He threw some things in the first meeting,” including papers and a tape dispenser, [Texas businesswoman] Townsel said. “He yelled and got really abusive.” When she went to her Moscow hotel room to avoid him, she said, “he proceeded to pound on my hotel door and thrust things under the door”.

With Bolton, it's looking less and less like a political philosophy, and more and more like a psychological disorder.

'Course, all it would take for the Democrats to decisively defeat the Bolton nomination would be to have eight women show up at his hearing Monday, with "No More Anita Hills" taped across their mouths . . .

posted by Michael 7:23 PM