Thursday, May 26, 2005

Watch for flying poo... Democrats are talking about right and wrong

And it's too bad that Bolton continues to get caught in the middle.

WASHINGTON (AP)-[off the wire, no link]- The White House is stiff-arming Democrats over classified information about President George W. Bush's pick to be United Nations ambassador, and the Senate should put off a vote on the embattled nominee until next month, a Democratic opponent argued Thursday.

"We should delay this until we see that information; it's a matter of right and wrong," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., maintained at the start of a second day of Senate debate over John R. Bolton's fitness and qualifications. "It is right for us to get that information, it is wrong for the administration to withhold it."

Democrats set up a procedural vote over the documents Thursday, ahead of a planned up-or-down vote on the man Bush says would reform the United Nations.

The material, which Democrats have sought for weeks, involves Bolton's use of government intelligence on Syria and instances in which he asked for names of fellow U.S. officials whose communications were secretly picked up by a spy agency.


I really can't help but snicker when Democrats start talking about right and wrong. They're opposed to religion, but for special privileges for minorities at the expense of the majority, against good organizations like the Boy Scouts, and they think they know enough to tell you what to do with your own life (eg their fascist campaign against smoking). And Barbara "Big-Fat-Liar" Boxer thinks she's got the corner on right and wrong? Maybe partisanship...

And hello, classified information... the White House doens't want to give it to you because when they do stuff like that the classified information usually ends up in a newspaper somewhere. They're probably just pissed because whatever was recorded caught some Senator doing something stupid (insert naughty sex joke here).

UPDATE: Heard on Hugh's show that the documents were released with the names blacked out to protect the innocent in true Dragnet style. What the hell else do the firggin' Democrats want? Weren't they the ones all pissed off about whoever outed Valerie Plame. Give me a break.