About a year ago, John Bolton ended his short tenure at the United Nations when the “recess appointment” President Bush had given him in August 2005 was about to expire and Bolton’s critics in Congress stood firm against confirming him to the post. These days, Bolton is telling his U.N. story in a new book.
Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, a leading critic of Bolton’s and the creator of the Bolton Watch blog, liked some of what he heard at Atlas On The Air.
“[W]hereas I disagree with Bolton vigorously on regime change in Iran and many other substantive issues, I was pleasantly surprised by his tone about diplomacy, his general willingness to acknowledge some importance of the United Nations, and his comment that “James Baker is the best secretary of state we have ever had.”
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Sen. Jim DeMint has been one of the leading critics of special-interest earmarks in federal spending bills, and now he has taken his crusade against such pork to the Internet. His campaign site features a petition dubbed “100,000 Strong For Earmark Reform.”
DeMint, R-S.C., discussed the effort today in an interview with Heading Right Radio. “It’s a way for chairmen to get votes for bad bills,” he said of earmarking. DeMint also called attention to a new congressional group called Reagan21.
Producer’s note: Through a partnership with BlogTalkRadio, AirCongress is promoting federal policy and political content produced by the company’s Internet-based talk-show hosts.
When I launched AirCongress a little less than a year ago, I knew then that BlogTalkRadio would be one of my regular stops as I looked for audio content of, by and about Congress.
BTR lets anyone create an Internet-based talk show, and political bloggers already had begun gravitating toward the site and periodically interviewing members of Congress. That’s just the kind of grassroots-generated content that inspired me to build AirCongress, and I was grateful to have a place to go for policy and political chatter from the heartland.
Today, AirCongress and BTR formalized a relationship that I had pursued from day one of this site by announcing a partnership. If you’re a regular reader, you no doubt know about the deal because I’ve mentioned it in twosummaries of content on Heading Right Radio, the show hosted by BTR political director Ed Morrissey.
I was a guest on Ed’s show this afternoon to discuss the partnership. You can listen via the audio player below. BTR also issued a press release about the new partnership with AirCongress.
So click back often for great content from the new generation of political talk-radio hosts at BTR.
Do you wish the federal government would just leave you alone? So do Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, and a bunch of other folks — gun owners, home-schoolers, “communities of faith” and small businessmen — who are pushing the idea of a Leave Us Alone Coalition.
“Around the table sit everybody with sort of their hand in,” Norquist said in an interview at Heading Right Radio. “Leave my guns alone, my kids alone, my faith alone, my property alone, my kids alone.” He said none of those people agree on all issues, but all agree that they want minimal government involvement in their lives.
The people in the coalition “simply want to be free,” Norquist said.
Producer’s note: Through a partnership with BlogTalkRadio, AirCongress is promoting federal policy and political content produced by the company’s Internet-based talk-show hosts.
Producer’s Note: AirCongress has entered a partnership with BlogTalkRadio to promote federal policy and political content produced by the company’s Internet-based talk-show hosts. This is the first report resulting from that partnership.
If retired Army Gen. Ricardo Sanchez truly believed that the “neglect and incompetence” of policymakers led the United States into an “intractable situation” in Iraq, he should have been more forthright before leaving the military, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday.
In an interview with Ed Morrissey of Heading Right Radio, McCain took Sanchez to task for his recent criticisms of the handling of the Iraq war, including in a Friday speech to military reporters and editors. McCain, a senator from Arizona who serves on the Armed Services Committee, said Sanchez never shared any of his views with Congress or McCain personally despite multiple opportunities.
“He was asked in several hearings about the strategy, and he not only didn’t complain about it … but he supported it,” McCain told Morrissey. “And I wish he had done that [criticism] back when he was on active duty.” McCain added that high-level military officials are “required” to be candid with Congress when asked about military policy.
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