The House Takes Action Where the Whitehouse Fears to Tread

In a bit of irony which I can't get over, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to cut U.S. dues payments to the United Nations until that body makes some basic reforms in the way it does business. The title of the bill is the United Nations Reform Act of 2005, introduced by Congressman Henry Hyde.

My favorite condition: that nations with representatives on any U.N. Human Rights Commission actually adhere to the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

And the Whitehouse, which has battled for years with U.N. indifference to common sense and fair dealing, opposes the bill, largely because it interferes with Whitehouse initiatives regarding reform of the U.N.

In truth, this bill passed so easily and quietly that I am convinced that house Dems rolled-over in full confidence that the Senate Dems will kill it.

If only we could pass John Bolton and the U.N. reform bill.

But with the Senate the way it is, we may pass neither.