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RUSH: I tell you what, I made George Voinovich cry yesterday. This is not ego speaking. I'm simply reading to you from an AP dispatch by the lovely and gracious Anne Gearan. "Voinovich has been the subject of an intense White House lobbying campaign since he broke ranks on Bolton. He has also been roughed up in television advertisements and by conservative commentators. The strain was evident in Voinovich's voice as his Senate speech drew to a close Wednesday." Conservative commentators are making a senator cry. Boy, that's going to really look good.
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RUSH: All right, let's go to the audio sound bites. We have three sound bites here. This is Senator Voinovich from Ohio weighing in on the nomination and the ultimate vote of John Bolton to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
 VOINOVICH: (shaky voice) Too many of my colleagues are not going to understand (trembling) that this appointment is very, very important to our country. At a strategic time (blubber) when we need friends all over the world, (whimper) we need somebody up there that's going to be able to get the job done.
RUSH: (Making crying sounds.) Can you believe this? I'm embarrassed. I'll tell you. (interruption) Well, I can't take total credit, Mr. Snerdley, for making him cry. The story says conservative commentators. "He's also been roughed up in television advertisements and by conservative commentators. The strain was evident in Voinovich's voice as his speech drew to a close on Wednesday." You know, I am just stunned. Here you've got a US senator on the brink, on the verge of tears, and rather than people be embarrassed by this, you've got a media sympathetic, because he's been criticized by conservative commentators. Meanwhile, Tom DeLay's reputation and all these judges routinely trashed and destroyed every day and the media licks its chops and asks for more and begins to pile on. For crying out loud, what are we running here, folks? Here's more from what Voinovich said yesterday, weighing in on the Bolton nomination.
VOINOVICH: I ask myself, "Mr. President, what message are we sending to the world community?"
RUSH: Stop the tape. With you crying on the floor of the US Senate, what do you think the message is? We're a bunch of wimps! Good grief almighty!
VOINOVICH: In the same breath we are considering a nominee for ambassador to the United Nations who's been accused of being arrogant, of not listening to his friends, of acting unilaterally, and of bullying those who do not have ability to properly defend themselves. These are the very characteristics that we're trying to dispel in the court of world opinion. |  | RUSH: And there you have what's exactly wrong with this. This is not a time, folks, where we're going to go out and make the world safer and make ourselves safer by asking yourselves, "Why don't they like us?" and then trying to make them like us. What's going on? How old is this man? What has he not learned in his life? I may make him cry again by asking these questions. For crying out loud, how many people tried to be nice to Hitler? What was the guy's name, Chamberlain? How many people tried to be nice to Hitler? "Hey, Adolf? Take Poland. Just stop there. Just take Poland." Fine. "Hey, Al-Qaeda, what are we doing to make you dislike us? What is it?" So he's upset here that we're going to send a nominee whose accused of being arrogant, of not listening to his friends. Can I define that for you, "arrogant, not listening to his friends"? He knows what he wants! He doesn't need to go out and ask the opinions of others, Senator Voinovich, to make up his mind. We're getting a little insight here into how things work in the Senate. "So if I say this, will you like me?" and, "If I do this, will you like me?" We're looking at the feminization here of the male population of the US Senate, for crying out loud. What in the world is this? I told you, one of the problems these guys have with Bolton is he's a man. He's a throwback. He's a man. He makes up his own mind. He knows what's right. He knows what's wrong. He knows what he needs to do, and they think that's arrogant. He's too sure of himself. "Nobody should be that sure of themselves. This is going to rub people the wrong way." This is a bully? Somebody that knows what he knows, somebody that believes what he believes, somebody who's not afraid to say what he thinks, this is the new definition of a bully? Bullying those who do not have ability to properly defend themselves. We're back to that, and now we're back to the fact that Voinovich did not accept incompetence among his staff. Yes, we're supposed to do that, folks. We're supposed to accept incompetence because that's being nice and considerate and we're supposed to be fair. Want to hear one more bite? Even if you don't, here it comes.
VOINOVICH: Frankly, I'm concerned that Mr. Bolton would make it more difficult for us to achieve the badly needed reforms to this outdated institution. I believe there could be even more obstacles to reform if Mr. Bolton is sent to the UN than if it were another candidate. Those in the international community who do not want to see the UN reformed will act as a roadblock and I fear that Mr. Bolton's reputation will make it easier --
RUSH: Stop this! Stop this. Stop this. So the way I understand this is, the UN needs to be reformed. Voinovich admits it's in bad shape. So we're going to send somebody up there who -- the international community doesn't want to see the UN reformed anyway, right? So we're going to send somebody up there, if Voinovich gets his way, we want to send somebody up there who says, "Okay, now, we know you don't want the UN reformed but we do, and we really need the UN reformed, and I think if I'm just nice to you and I provide no threat, and I present no bullying personality to you, that you will go along with my idea of reform." This is not how the world works, and the UN is in such a mess, to go up and run it here like a sandbox and just to continue running it the way it always has been -- you know, Madeleine Albright's had her turn at this. The Madeleine Albright, Clinton people had their way. They had their turn with this, and they didn't fix it at all. We don't need more people like that.
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 RUSH: Can I give you an idea just how off his game Voinovich has to be? Here he's worried about Bolton being a bully at the UN. By the way, these are just accusations and that's another thing. Some of these Democrats say, "We can't send somebody up there with these kinds of allegations," because to them the allegations will be perceived as true by the bad guys. It's amazing how they want to pander to bullies themselves. What is the UN but a bunch of dumb bullies? It's a bunch of thugs and tyrants and anti-Semites. I mean, the UN is the Star Wars bar scene, folks, it's nothing but a bunch of aliens up there -- and most of them are dictators and thugs and tyrants who exist for one reason, that's to oppress their own people and to steal money from our back pocket under any premise they can come up with, such as Kyoto. Yet here's Voinovich all worried about the bullies at the UN. What about the bully that is Barbara Boxer? What about the bully that is Harry Reid? What about the bullies in the Democratic Party and what they're saying about our president, and what about the impact that's having with our enemies and so-called friends at the UN around the world? I think Senator Voinovich ought to turn his fear of bullies to his own chamber and start asking himself and the Democrats just what their words and actions are doing to the US image around the world and how that's not helping at all, particularly when the Senate minority leader refers to the president as a loser to a bunch of school kids while the president is over in the former Soviet Bloc. "Oh, no we can't talk about that!" We must have comity in the Senate but we don't have to have comity with John Bolton. We can set out to destroy him and we can go to the Senate floor and we can cry about it. What about the message that sends to these people who are our enemies, Senator Voinovich? Talk about useful? The term useful idiot apply here? I mean, who's doing more damage to our foreign relations, Voinovich or the nomination of Bolton? Who's doing more damage to our foreign policy than the Democrats in the Senate constantly ripping this country, ripping this president in the midst of demonstrable foreign policy successes? I think these guys are looking at the wrong place. They're always looking at our enemies as our friends, except the Democrats -- there we must have comity, comity in the Senate. Tom in Dayton, Ohio. Hi, we'll go to the phones early today. Welcome to the program, sir. | | CALLER: Hi, Rush. My point on the fine senator that represents us is that he's not crying because he's getting a couple of comments made or getting a couple of shots thrown at him. He's crying because there are people like myself that have sent e-mails to the senator telling him, "Hey, thanks for what you've done, but you know what? You just crossed the line here and you don't understand what conservatives are looking for out of Bolton, and we are no longer going to tolerate it out of our senators here in Ohio," and I pretty much sent him an e-mail telling him, "Thanks but I cannot vote for you no more." And my other concern with the senator is that he thinks we're going to send Bolton there, and the UN is going to resist him and not work with him. Well, what are the Democrats doing right now in the Senate? Is he afraid they're going to act like Democratic senators to him --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- and resist everything --
RUSH: Exactly. Exactly.
CALLER: -- that we are trying to accomplish?
RUSH: And what's happening with the UN now? We don't have anybody up there right now and supposedly they're not working with us then, either.
CALLER: I would like to know what was being done that was so good by previous people we sent to the UN that worked, because we've got --
 RUSH: There's nothing -- you can't say under previous, you know, Madeleine Albright, there goes the oil-for-food scandal right under her nose. Those people have had their chance. Sir, I take exception with you on only one thing, and I realize everybody wants to get in on the act here. You think you made Voinovich cry, but I got the AP story here, doesn't say anything about you and your e-mail, only says conservative commentators. I made Voinovich cry. If you want to take partial credit, make you feel better, go ahead, but your e-mail is not mentioned in this story.
CALLER: You know what? I'm going to send whoever wrote that article a little e-mail myself because, you know what? As much as I appreciate you, Rush, what it is, it comes down to the people in the states, like myself, who do vote the conservative way, not because... Well, I guess I'll say this, because of one reason: We want to better our country; we want to have the chance to make sure that our children and our grandchildren have the right to vote and have the right --
RUSH: You know something? It's interesting you say that because that's part of the reason Voinovich said he opposes Bolton. He's worried about his children and grandchildren getting nuked if we send somebody that's too tough up there. He didn't say nuked but he's worried about war breaking out, terrible times and we don't need a bully up there that's just going to make it worse, that's what he thinks.
CALLER: I don't understand.
RUSH: I guess he's never seen a John Wayne movie he liked. He probably hates Dirty Harry, the Clinton Eastwood character. He hates people that get it down in law-and-order situations. Just despises them.
CALLER: To be honest with you, I look back and I see how important the state of Ohio was to getting President Bush reelected and then I see what my two senators doing now, acting more as... I can't even call them moderates. I have to actually say that they are becoming more of a Democratic way of voting, and I'm kind of ashamed and embarrassed that I voted for two conservatives that represent the state of the fine state of Ohio.
RUSH: Ah look, nobody is going to hold it against you, sir. You're not the total reason here. You were bamboozled like a lot of people. I mean, nobody before all this started thought that Voinovich or DeWine were going to be problems. They just got plucked from obscurity here to be made famous by joining the McCain 14 or what have you. We got more stories on that, by the way, too, as the program unfolds but, Tom, I gotta move on. Thanks much. (interruption) What? Can I make McCain cry? I don't know. No, McCain's not going to cry. | | BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: On this Bolton business, the Democrats said that they will try to filibuster John Bolton if the Bush administration doesn't turn over two final sets of documents. This is Christopher Dodd from Connecticut. "'If the administration doesn't give us this information  then I want a sixty vote requirement here so that senators can express their views on this issue of the documentation that we need.' Mr. Dodd said he actually supports an up-or-down vote on Bolton, but is being forced into a filibuster as a protest against the administration. Biden said, 'Did Bolton attempt to badger or change the views of intelligence officers relating to whether or not Syria had weapons of mass destruction at a critical juncture when you were all writing and we were asking, is Syria next?'" So filibustering Bolton.
Meanwhile, Bill Frist has made it plain what his strategery is. He said, "'We cannot stop with this single step of Priscilla Owen. We must give fair up-or-down votes to other previously blocked nominees.' The Senate's top Republican said that he would press for votes on the nominations of William Myers and Henry Saad, two of the president's selections who were not guaranteed final votes in the centrist deal." And about this, Lindsey Graham said no, no, no, no, I can't say that I would vote for the nuclear option, and those two, they weren't part of our original deal. Republican officials also said they expected Frist to push for votes on Brett Kavanaugh and William Haynes, so appears that Frist is going to bring everybody up, even those outside the so-called deal.
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