The Senate’s New Piñata
Investor's Business Daily, by Monica Showalter
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Original Article
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Posted By:Pageturner, 11/7/2009 7:29:48 PM
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| Lobbyist and Senate sources tell IBD that the new hold placed on Tom Shannon’s appointment as ambassador to Brazil is just one of many in the pipeline for the luckless career diplomat who up until now has been the top U.S. policymaker for Latin America. On Thursday, the Senate did confirm Georgetown academic Arturo Valenzuela as assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, a job Shannon has held until now. Both Shannon and Valenzuela
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Comments: This poor guy who's done an excellent job of checking Chavez and Castro is being smeared as a liberal by some misguided anti-Castro groups. It's not true. Now they are doing a number on him instead of all the Van Jones types out there. This stinks.
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