Why does the Bolton situation matter?

I previously discussed the delay in Senate confirmation of John Bolton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation. Nothing substantive has happened since then except various bloggers excoriated Voinovich for his actions. I got to thinking about just why is the right side of the blogosphere so up in arms about this nomination? It isn't because of a strong concern for the United Nations. Most of us realize the U.N. has never been and likely never will be an effective organization. The U.N. could cease to exist and it wouldn't matter. No, I think the anger has more to do with a feeling of wasted effort. Many people contributed their time and money to achieve and maintain a majority in the House and Senate. Over the last few years, despite a slim Republican majority the Democrats successfully obstructed progress. So in this last election the goal was to reach a larger margin of senators. After reaching this goal the Republicans in the Senate are continuing to behave as though they are in the minority.

Ed Morrissey from Captain's Quarters has been pushing the idea of not contributing a dime to any campaign unless they end the tyranny of the minority party. Here he is talking about the failure to fight for judicial nominees but same principle applies to the Bolton nomination.

"Not. One. Dime. The next time Ken Mehlman sends you a request for money, that's the message he needs to get back. We ponied up in 2004, and in 2002, and in 2000. The GOP not only has not delivered, its current leadership won't even try. Frist and Rick Santorum claim they don't have the votes. Balderdash -- they don't have the leadership to get the votes. I'm not going to fund or support people who won't try to win, especially when the issue is so important." Read the rest.

I'm fully supporting the "Not. One. Dime." position. However, not sure what effect that will have since I wouldn't send them a penny let alone a dime. It's like the block on your tax return that asks if you want money wasted on presidential campaigns. Do you know anyone dumb enough to say yes? I don't.

What do we want? We want them to do what they were elected and get paid to do. VOTE! Bolton, Owens, Brown, etc. deserve a vote. If the loons want to filibuster, make them actually stand there and talk until they can't talk anymore. Then vote! In the past when racists like Byrd filibustered against the Civil Rights Act it just exposed them. Now we have been letting them get away with threatening to filibuster.