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That’s the reason that John Bolton must be confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. As you no doubt recall, last year, after what can only be described as a character assasination campaign, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to let his nomination come to the floor for an up or down vote. President Bush appointed him during the Senate recess, but if he is not confirmed, his appointment will expire in September. The committee will take up his nomination this morning. The man with more chins than a Chinese phonebook, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) has promised a “bruising fight,” and, speaking of panty wearers, now that Sen. George Voinovich as stopped blubbering about how terrified he is at the prospect of Mr. Bolton at the U.N., I say let the democrats put on another display of their hallmark characteristics: concern for world opinion above all else, including our national security, unceasing desire to appease dictators and terrorists, and contempt for the idea of American exceptionalism. That’s why they demonized Mr. Bolton when he was nominated last year, and now that Sen. Voinovich as come to his senses, the fig leaf of “bipartisan” opposition is gone.

Even the boneheads at the Los Angeles Times, who would rather see Madelyn Albright (Notbright) or someone of that ilk at the U.N., grudgingly admit that the democrats’ standard ploy to deal with the inconvenient fact that they can’t win elections, the filibuster, is the wrong way to deal with Mr. Bolton’s nomination.

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