US May Renominate Ambassador Choice Rejected By Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Jan 6, 2011 | 12:21PM
US May Renominate Ambassador Choice Rejected By Venezuela
By Tom Barkley, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A senior U.S. official Thursday didn't rule out the possibility of renominating a candidate for Venezuelan ambassador that was rejected by President Hugo Chavez.

Arturo Valenzuela, the State Department's assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, said the next move in the ongoing saga with Venezuela will be up to the White House.

But he sought to clarify comments from a State Department official earlier in the week that raised the possibility that a new nominee might be put forth in place of the administration's first choice for the job, Larry Palmer.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley's comment Monday that the administration would have to renominate an ambassador after the last Congress ended without taking up Palmer's candidacy didn't necessarily mean that someone else would be tapped, said Valenzuela.

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[rabs]

1. The circus continues in D.C.

When Crowley said a few days ago that Palmer's nomination had "expired" with the outgoing Congress, it struck me as an odd excuse by State to dump Palmer, and wondered why Obama could not simply nominate him again before the new Congress?

Now it looks like Hil and company have realized what a humilation Hugo foisted on her and on Obama and State has been ordered to take the offensive again.

Smacks of major miscommunication between Hil and Obama. :rofl:

[bemildred]

2. Babble babble babble.

I'm sort of amazed at how these clowns run their mouths without any adult supervision.