A Day with his Pals: Kerry Coasts Through Nomination Hearing
“It would be totally inappropriate for me here to begin to negotiate with myself and the committee with respect to how they would come into compliance or what would be required,” Kerry said. “I can tell you this: It is going to be imperative that they come into full compliance and there are several ways in which we might be able to get there, and most prominently, obviously, the P-5-plus-1.”
“If their program is peaceful, they can prove it. And that’s what we are seeking,” he added.
Like yesterday’s Clinton hearing, the only real hardballs came from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a new member of the committee this Congress.
“In the early 1970s, you know, after Vietnam, you were quite critical of the bombing in Cambodia because I think you felt that it wasn’t authorized by Congress. Has your opinion changed about the bombing in Cambodia? How is Cambodia different than Libya?” Paul asked in a thread of questioning about war powers.
“It was an extension of the war that was being prosecuted without the involvement of Congress after a number of years. That’s very different,” Kerry responded. “…Look, you can be absolutist and apply it to every circumstance. The problem is it just doesn’t work in some instances. When 10,000 people are about to be wiped out by a brutal dictator and you need to make a quick judgment about engagement, you certainly can’t rely on a Congress that has proven itself unwilling to move after weeks and months sometimes.”
“Do you think a U.N. resolution sufficient to go to war?” Paul continued.
“No. No. I think a U.N. resolution — when you say sufficient to go to war, I think a U.N. resolution is a necessary ingredient to provide the legal basis for military action in an emergency,” Kerry said. “It is not by any means sufficient to require the United States to do something, because we obey our Constitution and our interests and our rights.”
Paul asked about the F-16s and tanks being sent to Egypt despite comments President Mohamed Morsi has made about Israelis being descended from apes and pigs.
“I think those comments are reprehensible. And those comments set back the possibilities of working toward mutual — issues of mutual interests. They are degrading comments. They are unacceptable by anybody’s standard. And I think they have to appropriately be apologized for,” Kerry said. “…President Morsi has issued two statements to clarify those comments. And we had a group of senators who met with him just the other day who spent a good part of their conversation in relatively heated discussion with him about it. But not everything — you know, this is always the complication in dealings in the international sector. Not everything lends itself to a simple clarity of black-white, this-that every time. We have critical interests with Egypt.”
“But this has been our problem with our foreign policy for decades, Republican and Democrat,” Paul said. “We funded bin Laden. We funded the mujahedeen. We were in favor of the radical jihad because they were the enemy of our enemy. We’ve done this so often. I see these weapons coming back to threaten Israel.”
After a nearly four-hour hearing, there was little doubt about which way the Senate will go on the nomination of their longtime colleague.
“The Senate has an obligation to ensure that presidential nominees are competent, qualified, and free of hindrances that would affect their ability to serve. But I believe that once a nominee passes those tests, presidents, whether Democrat or Republican, ought to have the ability to select members of their administrations,” said committee member Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) after the hearing.
“While I expect to disagree with the Obama Administration over how best to carry out U.S. interests abroad, Senator Kerry is qualified to serve as Secretary of State,” Flake said. “I look forward to working with him in that capacity.”
It just gets worse, and worse for America. John Kerry is a CFR globalist, and is on board an agenda that is not in the best interest of these United States.
He is for the UN Law of the Sea treaty.
Kerry even made specific mention of the coming New World Order in his intro speech
How evil is Hillary? THIS evil!
John Bolton is the only person I could think of as a good fit for the position.
Mr. Ketchup is as inept as Mrs. Hilton… sorry, HILlary ClinTON.
John Bolton would be very good at any U.S. Government position he may want. But, we Americans seem to be having trouble holding on to such men as these John Bolton’s because they seem to be thwarted by the glacier-like–liberal-mind-set-bureaucratic-inertia already so long entrenched. John Bolton’s pragmatism is unfortunately for us, way, way out of place in our current malaise of government, regardless of how desperately he’s needed. That’s our National Malaise right now.
Hillary yesterday made the customary plea for more money and personnel….good grief!….look at the thousands upon thousand of employees already at State and USAID…ask ourselves what are they accomplishing…exactly what?…where, exactly? Would the Foreign Policy of the United States of America be hindered in any way by the elimination of half of those bureaucrats?…in all of those insignificant third world countries….like Haiti…which no amount of “AID” has helped since their last cyclic disaster. What a waste, all of it nothing but paper shuffling wheel-spinning. All they want is our cash, after that’s been filtered away…. it’s, “Yankee Go Home!”
Now, compounding this asinine situation [albeit inwardly very tragic] that we witnessed yesterday with Hillary losing her cool, throwing up her hands, and asking, “What difference does it make?” as sort of a generic, exasperated female way of addressing awkward explanations of ineptitude by simply flicking aside anything that she considers may be out of order… now, we have as the likely next Secretary of State a man who literally threw his medals in the service of the United States on the steps of the Capitol Building of those same United States. Hurled them away in a fit of anger. Our next Secretary of State?
What on Earth will become of us?
After trashing Susan Rice and aggressively promoting Kerry, the Republican Establishment can do do little but to rubber stamp Kerry, he i part of the club. Neo-con John Bolton? Pfft. Susan Rice would be better.
No, No….you mustn’t say anything like that, you mustn’t be so flippant. I’ve seen a lot of administrations come and go, and I’ve never witnessed the disgusting likes of this faux “administration” which we somehow have managed to put in place by a democratic election, if only by…what is it?…53%…..that’s all it took, dear readers.
We don’t seem to know, or take seriously, the emptiness and “nothingness” of this Obama person….and the risks to our well being he is establishing covertly.
The House of Lords.
yep, no problems there. Now he’s in line for the presidency.
Nobody should hold a little treason against guy. And so what if he shot himself twice to make himself a hero. Doesn’t everybody do that?
Why, yes, weo. What is a little treason among friends?
It is possible to read the minds of the entire Senate on this matter:
“Oh Thank GOD, we can finally get that moron outta here! And look good doin’ it. Win, win.”
Now he can be someone elses embarassment on a daily basis.
Let me check my scoreboard.
I’ve got my pick as President.
The President is packing government with even more extreme leftist than last time, which I wholly approve of.
Thanks to the mainstream media coverage of Newtown, gun control is a done deal. The new law will outlaw everything the right wingers can put in their gun racks except pea shooters and water pistols.
There’s no talk of energy independence; Obama plans to do nothing so gas prices will eventually soar, sending the nation into another tailspin, making more and more dependent on government programs and Obama. Whites slaving at their 9-5 jobs, of course, pay for all this. And they’ll get no relief from their spineless Republican Representaives. The reason is simple.
Republicans have no stomach to fight Obama’s calls for trillion dollar jumps in spending boondoggles that put all the green in black pockets and take it from white families of former slaveholders and northern slave supporters.
White businesses bidding for government jobs are now out of the running thanks to a mandate that never will be made public.
Thousands of new regulations are being written to squeeze even the largest white owned corporations, allowing them to stay in business as long as their contributions to Democrats are sky high. This, of course, is part of Obama’s tacit reparation promise.
The Catholic Church will surrender every abortion related value it ever held because Obama, with the support of the mainstream media, has the church in a choke hold; when push comes to shove, no Bishop wants to go to jail.
On the other hand, Mosques all over America will receive huge tax money from white shell corporations. Sharia law will slowly seep into state laws as Muslims will quickly become the dominant religion in America. Eventually, during the Christmas season, you’ll be seeing more Muslim decorations than Christian ones.
Part of the leftist strategy is to create hundreds of women-oriented organizations that receive funneled ObamaMoney. When one is caught, five more spring up, paid for, naturally, by ObamaInvestments in America.
Hispanic organizations will use this model to obtain tax money in return for the Hispanic vote.
The end game, of course, is a United States that has the power to do nothing but surrender. The Constitution is reformed.
Which forms the basis for national Sharia law.
Why do I explain this to the infidels? Because Obama’s lap dogs on the hill, no not the Democrats, but the Republicans, are very aware of every ObamaObjective. With the changing of the guard in America; the end of white rule, they know they can’t stop the anointed one. They’re content to keep their plum jobs a few more years.
Doubts? Just listen to Mark Rubio question Hillary Clinton about Benghazi. He’s a whipped puppy dog.
Let me check my watch. The war on women is about to start in three and a half more years. If you get my drift.
Birds of a feather flock together!
Swiftboat Veterans Ad on John Kerry – Sellout (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqOuEhg9yE
Having lived in Cambridge when JFK was in his anti-war period, he wandered the coffee shops and marijuana cafes and spouted his venom. A liar then, and a liar now. He got away with violating the UCMJ on many occasions and it was overlooked, even when he testified before the traitor Fulbright.
He is no different now than then. He has been distrustful his entire adult life. So, why would we expect him to be any different as SoS? Rush calls him Lurch, but Lurch wasn’t anyone’s patsy.
The UCMJ? Isn’t that what got Allen West cashiered, due to discharging a pistol next to a detainee’s head?
Obama Wants 100,000 American Students to Study in Communist China January 24, 2013
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-wants-100000-american-students-study-communist-china
– throw anyone else’s Heinz medals across the table?
Sadly, what’s the alternative? Knock down nominee after nominee?
Sadly, Obama is the one who’s going to do the nominating – at least until he’s impeached. So might as well go with someone who’s character flaws are well known.
Did he even receive one question about his support of Assad as a “reformer”? One question about why he called the butcher Assad “my good friend” after taking a motorcycle ride with him? Is there any opposition party anymore in this country?
Did anyone ask the French looking guy why the Harvard Law School rejected him?
His first wife’s family was big time Boston and the Kennedys backed him, but the most left wing law school in town rejected him. Why?
I don’t understand why any Republican, no matter where on the ideological spectrum, would vote for Kerry as SecState. If voting no is too scary, just vote present or don’t vote. For Pete’s sake.
The USA in the twenty-first century is the place where billionaires are in charge of everything. Kerry, an extremely wealthy man, will be approved by a gathering of very rich people, the Senate, and the modern American State will continue to bully the rest of the world and oppress those unfortunate enough to live within the boreders of Kerry-Obama land.
It blows my mind that a man who was kicked out of the Vietnam War EARLY by his shipmmates because he was such a loser, could become Secretary of State.