Maybe a Bolton appointment would be good news?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

When Bolton was in charge of North Korea negotiations, he was so insulting and arrogant, that war almost broke out.
Now that he left, everyone is so relieved, that they are actually making serious progress.
Obviously progress is a good thing.

Maybe, after Bush appoints him at midnight tonight, the same thing will happen in the UN.
He will trash the place, piss everyone off, insult our friends, make our allies hate us, lose all credibility (or what is left of it) and cause wars to break out because of his mindless rhetoric, Neocon philosophy and antagonistic behavior.
after a few months, when smarter heads prevail and he is finally relieved of his position, everyone in the world will be so relieved that India and Pakistan will become best allies, Zimbabwe will rebuild housing for the 250,000 they made homeless in just the last month, Israel and Syria will become best friends, Iran and Iraq will sign more treaties (Oh, wait. They did) and the ozone hole will heal itself magically, as fresh salmon repopulate western rivers annd the zebra mussel dies off in unwanted waters.

Ok. maybe not.

How about this, as an alternative?
Bush promotes Bolton solely to take the spotlight away from wrongdoing in the White House?
Iraq? Plame? Roberts? and worse?

[sellitman]

1. He will appoint him just to take the press off Rove-gate

It's perfect! Even better than picking a Anti-Abortion Right Wingnut to the Court.

[punpirate]

2. The simple flaw in this logic...

... "after a few months, when smarter heads prevail...."

That has never happened in Bush's administration. There are no smarter heads to prevail. :)

[zanne]

3. I try to be an optimist but...

That's really stretching it. It's like saying that if the Supreme Court outlaws abortion, alot of one-issue Republicans will vote for Democrats. (In other words, we'd have to lose everything to win).

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. yeah, on second thought, there are no smarter heads

and it is really stretching it.
But, you have to agree that once he gets the midnight appointment, he will knock heads, bruise egos, and create non-stop strife. I only hope that we can survive his appointment.

[drangundsturm]

5. looks like about 65% chance of bolton

Probability of Bolton becoming UN Ambassador is about 65% now at http://www.owise.com

This is a cool new prediction site that I'm playing around with. So far it's been pretty accurate.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Very likely that he would

the reason that the White House hinted at it was to test the waters (and to throw off the press from the growing Rove scandal)

[newyawker99]

10. Hi drangundsturm!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[aden_nak]

7. I can't wait for the Bolton Recess Appointment.

He won't be able to behave himself for two days, let alone two months. He'll show himself to be a great big horse's ass, and he'll lose the confirmation when Congress is back in session. Better a few months of Bolton than a few years. And it will just be one more outstanding defeat for Ape Boy.

[auburngrad82]

8. If he appoints him it will be another nail in the GOP's coffin

They are pushing things a little too far and I think that people are beginning to see that the radical ideas of the GOP are not in our country's best interests.

[Toots]

9. They have Diebold so do you really think they give a rat's petuey

They will do what they damn well please and America be damned.

[skip fox]

11. Something's up with Plame-Bolton matter.

how couldn't he have been called to grand jury? The FBI, at the least, would have had to interivew him. Figure it in broad terms:

He was the neo-cons' plant in State Depertment. His title was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Securtiy. The informantion, as we heard last week, focused for a time on the 2003 State Department memo with the Plame-Wilson-Niger information given by Armitage to Powell on his Africa trip. That information was in the hands of administration officials within two days.

Now there are MANY ways they could have gotten the material, but doesn't it seem wildly out of characer for prosecutor Fitzgerald NOT TO CALL Bolton in front of the grand jury? OR AT LEAST TO HAVE HIM INTERVIEWED BY FBI?

Something seems "passing strange," as they say.

Does Fitzgerald have something up his sleeve???