Republicans More Confident Bolton Will Be Confirmed

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who said more time was needed to examine Bolton’s record, said so far she has not seen information to prompt her to vote against him.

I wonder what would prompt her, or any other Republicans, to vote against him …?

Threatening intelligence analysts who don’t agree with his views? Big deal.

Selling national security secrets to the Chinese? Please. Who doesn’t?

Eating an aborted fetus during a gay marriage? He was hungry!

After Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio said he was not prepared to support Bolton at last week’s committee meeting, Republicans were forced to postpone the vote until May 12.

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, in an interview with USA Today and Gannett News Services, said he was “absolutely confident he’ll be confirmed.”

You know what that means. Rove has Voinovich chained to a chair in some dank Washington boiler room with a canvas sack over his head, beating him with a rubber hose and shoving needles under his fingernails.

Or, as they call it in the White House, “lobbying.”

“This phase of the process is just beginning now. I don’t know why anybody would have their minds made up before the facts are in,” said Norm Kurz, spokesman for Sen. Joseph Biden.

Um … Because that’s the White House’s official policy. Duh.