Appearing on Friday before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Mr. Bolton in response to a question from the audience. "I have known him as someone who is intelligent and strong and who is going to go after any job that he is given with a lot of fervor and interest and commitment," she said.

    Fervor is the key word. Important word.

"If you don't like the results of analysis, then you don't accept it," said Mr. Gannon, who left government recently after serving as the Republican-appointed staff director of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "But you don't try to remove the people whose view you disagree with."

   Which is what Mr Bolton did. 'Kiss Up and Kick Down' were the words that another Republican career intelligence analyst used to describe Mr. Bolton's workplace style in the recent hearings.
      
    Kiss Up and Kick Down interesting phrase I hadn't heard it before. Speaks of the kind of person that I would hope that every American would find rather unpleasant to be associated with. 

    Kiss Up and Kick Down I think that would be an accurate description of Life under Nazi rule. I would think every Republican, Democrat, Christian, Free Thinkers, good Americans all might be starting to pay real good attention in case you haven't noticed
there has been some really really un-democratic trends emerging from our Federal Government. In defense of the Fatherland... I mean Homeland.

     Guy Meyer, Jr.
        January 11, 2005