G.O.P. Resistance Builds to John Bolton as State Dept. Deputy

[demon in basement]

Source: NY Times

By JEREMY W. PETERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN DEC. 14, 2016

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald J. Trumps extended deliberations over assembling a team to run the State Department are reviving some of the same debates that consumed the years of war and strife in the administration of George W. Bush. And in some cases, the cast of rivals is even the same.

The conflict has come to a head over choosing a deputy to serve under Rex W. Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil chief executive whom Mr. Trump selected this week to be secretary of state. Mr. Trump is weighing whether to choose John R. Bolton, a combative and strident advocate for an expansive American foreign policy who was closely aligned with Vice President Dick Cheney in the Bush administration.

Mr. Boltons nomination as deputy secretary of state would be subject to a vote in the Senate, and it is not clear whether he would survive his confirmation hearing. Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has said privately that he has misgivings, according to a person who has spoken with him. And Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, another Republican on the committee, has promised to block the nomination.

There is something to be said, Mr. Paul said Wednesday, for one of the top diplomats in the country being diplomatic.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us/politics/john-bolton-state-dept-deputy.html?_r=1

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Later in the article, it's reported that Tillerson himself is less than thrilled with Bolton as his #2.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Is there a country we hate we can appoint Bolton ambassador to?

(preferably one without nukes)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Somalia or ISIS sounds good.

[Solly Mack]

2. Sounds like a power squabble

Hmm

[Hoyt]

3. That guy really bothers me. He looks like he needs a big war to relax.

[duffyduff]

4. Good. Let the games begin. n/t

[still_one]

5. any bets that all his appointments will be confirmed?

[rpannier]

8. That's a tough one with this

He was a recess appointment as UN Ambassador because Republicans wouldn't vote for him
Some of those who refused are still in the Senate

[still_one]

12. you might be right on Bolton, but I think the others are going to slid right through

[rpannier]

7. There is something to be said, Mr. Paul said Wednesday, for one of the top diplomats in the country

What a novel thought... diplomats being diplomatic

[mopinko]

9. when you are agreeing w rand paul, you are well and truly

through the looking glass.
fsm, please save us.

[rpannier]

15. Nah...

He's agreeing with me
It makes me feel saner

[Xipe Totec]

10. The oysters do not want the walrus in charge. nt

[longship]

13. Coo Coo Cachoo! nt

[phleshdef]

14. "There is something to be said, for one of the top diplomats in the country being diplomatic"

Rand Paul, momentary master of the politically and professionally obvious, lol.

He is right though.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Wouldn't he be the opposite of what Drumpf

claimed would be his policy of getting out of the "nation building" business?

Unless this was a nod to Darth, who seemed to sit on the sidelines while the clown trashed Shrub policies, and thus this would keep him on the sidelines.