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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (161676)	5/10/2005 7:16:48 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You did not answer the question.....was it a BJ war?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (161676)	5/12/2005 8:28:24 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Laura Rozen, writing on TomPaine.com: "Regardless of the outcome, the Bolton nomination has changed the political battlefield in Washington. While Bush stands to lose big if Bolton's nomination is not approved by the Senate Foreign Relations committee Thursday, Democrats have already made considerable gains. Observers say Bolton opponents scored a public and important victory in achieving such a penetrating and public investigation so far, one that revealed a startling glimpse not only into Bolton's appalling and at times almost cartoonish operating style, but a detailed look at the larger context of a Bush administration so divided on the most pressing national security matters that it was often consumed with working against itself. "It showed the Democrats there was a constituency out there for resisting inappropriate or controversial nominees," said Chris Nelson of Samuels International, a longtime acute observer of the Washington foreign policy scene in his Nelson Report. "Democrats have helped themselves by managing to sound uncharacteristically reasonable, while the Republicans have managed to sound so extreme, victims of this kind of Caligula force. It reminds the Republicans that there is a price for this kind of stuff." As for whether Senate Democrats should use procedural means to stymie the vote Thursday—given that the Senate Foreign Relations committee had still not received some of the documents it had repeatedly requested from the State Department and the NSA as late as Wednesday—Nelson said no. "The Democrats recognize they can't go to the nuclear option on Bolton," Nelson said. "The judges are the game here. Bolton is spring training." *taken from the comments section at: thewashingtonnote.com