# Rice hints that Bush bypass Senate to appoint Bolton **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 20, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099 "2005-06-20T19:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/21 "2005-06-21T16:12:00Z")
Nothing could be better for liberalism and the Democratic Party than getting a sufficient number of anti-abortion conservatives in the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Then the battle goes to the states, and the red states will outlaw abortion, and suddenly, very suddenly, a lot of parents of teen daughters in red states are gonna turn blue. Very blue. And this country will move so far to the left so fast that Cuba will have to scramble to keep up. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/22 "2005-06-21T16:32:20Z")
Here’s hoping Bush does it and Bolton pulls a bafoon like scandel, hopefully involving a goat, weaponry, and KY gel. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/23 "2005-06-21T20:27:40Z")
**WTF**? [Frist Flip-Flops, Pushes **Another** Bolton Vote:](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20050621/ap_on_go_co/un_ambassador) > [@](#): > > Reversing field after a meeting with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he will continue pushing for a floor vote on John R. Bolton for U.N. ambassador. Frist switched his position after initially saying Tuesday that negotiations with Democrats to get a vote on Bolton had been exhausted. Is damage maximization the new republican stratagery here? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/24 "2005-06-21T22:52:56Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > **WTF**? [Frist Flip-Flops, Pushes **Another** Bolton Vote:](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20050621/ap_on_go_co/un_ambassador) Is damage maximization the new republican stratagery here? God, I’d _love_ to have been a fly on the wall during _that_ discussion. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/25 "2005-06-22T21:32:50Z")
I suspect it was a phone call from Karl Rove or Dick Cheney that did it. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099/26 "2005-07-29T02:53:52Z")
First it was no. Now it’s yes: [State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_bolton) > [@](#): > > Bolton was interviewed by the State Department inspector general in 2003 as part of a joint investigation with the > Central Intelligence Agency into prewar Iraqi attempts to buy nuclear materials from Niger, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said. > > The admission came hours after another State Department official said Bolton had correctly answered a Senate questionnaire when he wrote that he has not testified to a grand jury or been interviewed by investigators in any inquiry over the past five years. Of course the busy man just _forgot_ about the uranium forgery investigation. Does anyone think this’ll affect Bolton’s recess appointment to the UN? Other Bolton threads: [What’s being withheld? RE: Bolton](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=322144&highlight=bolton) [Should John Bolton be U.S. Ambassador to the UN?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=306391&highlight=bolton) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rice-hints-that-bush-bypass-senate-to-appoint-bolton/309099.md?page=1)