gnargtharst Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Jon Bolton is interviewed over at the AtlasShrugs blog, and expresses admiration for Ayn Rand. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_s...olton_inte.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wrath Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I knew I liked him...too bad the senate wouldn't confirm him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Jon Bolton is interviewed over at the AtlasShrugs blog, and expresses admiration for Ayn Rand. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_s...olton_inte.html Anyone remember this news story? Bolton Criticizes Bill Withholding U.N. Funds By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 29, 2005; Page A20 John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, yesterday opposed a bill to withhold more than $130 million in funding to the world body unless it implements congressionally mandated reforms. In his first appearance before Congress since becoming U.N. ambassador, Bolton warned Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the powerful chairman of the House International Relations Committee who sponsored the bill, and other members of that panel that the legislation would undercut the president's authority to make foreign policy. "I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, nondiscretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen," Bolton said. "That's our position," he added. "I support it emphatically." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5092800263.html Among the changes the bill would have mandated: "changing funding for 18 U.N. programs to be totally voluntary; creation of an Independent Oversight Board; establishment of a U.N. Office of Ethics; barring membership on human rights bodies to countries under U.N. investigation for human rights abuses; reduction in fundingfor General Assembly affairs and conference services as well as for public information; and reform in U.N. peacekeepingand establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission." http://72.14.207.104/custom?q=cache:kDSinG...k&cd=3&ie=UTF-8 Gee, I wonder what John Galt would have done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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