Flight Pundit

O’er the vast world to seek a single man,
And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
I’ the absence of the needer.
Cor. Fare ye well:

Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full
Of the wars’ surfeits, to go rove with one
That’s yet unbruis’d: bring me but out at gate.
Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.
While I remain above the ground you shall
Hear from me still; and never of me aught
But what is like me formerly.

William Shakespeare
Coriolanus
Act IV. Scene I.
Rome. Before a Gate of the City.

Fare ya well Bunker Mulligan

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Senate Likely to Confirm Bolton as U.N. Ambassador

Democrats in the U.S. Senate have conceded that U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton will likely be confirmed, Reuters reported yesterday (see GSN, June 1).

When asked if Democrats had enough votes to filibuster the nomination, top Foreign Relations Committee Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware said, “I’m going to be completely straight with you. I’m not at all certain we do.”

President George W. Bush “will probably be able to win the vote somewhere between 45 and 47 votes against and he’ll think it’s a victory,” [emphasis mine] Biden said. “He is making a mistake, a serious mistake, not only institutionally, but for his own naked self interest.”

55 votes to confirm is a Victory!
Biden is a moron. This is good news unless the 14 special idiots figure out a way to snatch a failure out of a victory.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

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