Bolton's successor
Zalmay Khalilzad, who was announced this week as leaving as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, is the leading prospect to replace John Bolton as envoy to the United Nations.
President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton's combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.
Robert Novak
As is the case with most Novak columns, you get a mixture of things. This one has lots of interesting stuff in it. We start with Bush bending over for political correctness and beginning the spin job that will try to make whichever poor sap he nominates seem to be at least as good as Bolton. I guess Harriet Miers was busy.
Moving along, we find that two premier members of the parliament of whores have decided to scratch one another's...umm...backs. I think Lott and McCain make a cute couple, don't you?
On the positive side, Karl Rove says he won't be doing political consulting any more. I guess he figures Texas isn't producing any more completely blank simpletons at the moment.
And speaking of said completely blank simpletons, Bush has asked the Papal Nuncio how to win the war in Iraq. He must have forgotten that this isn't the twelfth century and Europe already lost Jerusalem to the Muslim infidels.
And finally, Novak closes with the cheery news that we are going to have to suffer two years of Henry Waxman and John Dingell doing their pit bull accountant thing and directing snarky innuendo at quivering bureaucrats on national television. I absolutely don't miss that circus. No wonder the functionaries are bailing out at EPA.
President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton's combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.
Robert Novak
As is the case with most Novak columns, you get a mixture of things. This one has lots of interesting stuff in it. We start with Bush bending over for political correctness and beginning the spin job that will try to make whichever poor sap he nominates seem to be at least as good as Bolton. I guess Harriet Miers was busy.
Moving along, we find that two premier members of the parliament of whores have decided to scratch one another's...umm...backs. I think Lott and McCain make a cute couple, don't you?
On the positive side, Karl Rove says he won't be doing political consulting any more. I guess he figures Texas isn't producing any more completely blank simpletons at the moment.
And speaking of said completely blank simpletons, Bush has asked the Papal Nuncio how to win the war in Iraq. He must have forgotten that this isn't the twelfth century and Europe already lost Jerusalem to the Muslim infidels.
And finally, Novak closes with the cheery news that we are going to have to suffer two years of Henry Waxman and John Dingell doing their pit bull accountant thing and directing snarky innuendo at quivering bureaucrats on national television. I absolutely don't miss that circus. No wonder the functionaries are bailing out at EPA.
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