You, yeah you. After we’re done with Iraq, you’re next. I don’t care if you are the U.S. Senate.
Well, now we’ve entered the Bolton years. Imagine you are a country to which this guy has been sent to represent the United States. The first words out of his mouth are “We could cut off a chunk of your country and nobody would miss them.”
Yup, you’d welcome him with open arms…especially if you knew what was good for you.
Bolton himself aside, what’s really going on here is Bush is just serving up another big crap sandwich to anyone who gets in his way.
“Hey Frist, you defy me on stem cells! Well, eat this.”
“Hey McCain, you don’t think we should torture prisoners? Suck on this for a while, bitch.”
The problem with Bush is he doesn’t know who his friends are…other than Cheney and Rove, of course…but they just keep him around because he’s cheaper than a pony. As I see it, Bush now thinks he doesn’t need to respect the Senate at all, even one that’s 55 percent Republican. He doesn’t care if some Republicans didn’t like Bolton enough to support him. He’s got the power and he’ll use it until stopped. He doesn’t care if most of the actual military veterans in the Congress are appalled by his stance on torture, he’ll veto the military expenditure bill if it contains torture prohibitions. And he really doesn’t care if the doctor in the Senate thinks stem cell research is a good idea, (and he doesn’t seem to care either that such research will just be done elsewhere in the world anyway) he’ll veto that, too.
It’s time for the Senate to act like an equal branch of government. I sort of like the idea put forward by my friend over lunch today: you stick John Bolton up the world’s ass; we stick John Roberts up yours.
Should be a fun summer.
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