Go Bolton!
Posted by TFG on 13th May 2005
And Taranto:
Voinovich called Bolton “the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.” He said Bolton would be fired if he was in the private sector.
How the heck would Voinovich know? The résumé on his Senate Web site lists no private-sector jobs and a string of government positions beginning with the Ohio House in 1967 and lasting through the present, continuous except for a two-year gap between 1988 and 1990 (during part of which time he was campaigning for the Ohio governorship). There is a six-year gap between his graduation from law school (1961) and his taking a seat in the Ohio House, so perhaps he practiced law or some other occupation for a time 40 or more years ago–though his official congressional bio shows that he was an assistant attorney general in 1963.
And of course as an elected official rather than a civil servant, he is guaranteed a job until his term ends, in January 2011. Which perhaps explains why he has engaged in behavior that would be unacceptable in the private sector–to wit, missing a series of important meetings, then finally showing up and demanding that business be brought to a halt until he can get up to speed.
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