As a result of the 2006 election outcomes, a number of unresolved issues are making the news. Many of them are not likely to deserve a dedicated topic, so I have opened this one for those.
The first article I noticed today is that Bolton's formal approval as our UN Envoy is very unlikely.
Bolton
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Democrats indicated that even should the Senate try debating Bolton's nomination when lawmakers reconvene next week -- still under Republican control -- they would stretch out debate on Bolton with the aim of killing it. Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to force a vote on the nomination.
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Bush asked congressional Republicans Thursday morning at the White House to confirm Bolton during their "lame duck" session beginning next week, said White House spokesman Tony Snow.
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Personally, I felt Bolton was an "in your face" choice for our UN representative and just another example of the "go it alone" foreign policy of this administration. I'm not an unconditional supporter of the UN, but I prefer that they are "with us rather than agin' us."