She will exercise the veto when told, which is why Israel didn't put up much of a stink.
"Power is confirmed as United Nations ambassador
WASHINGTON — The Senate easily confirmed President Obama’s selection for ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, capping a month in which senators used a bipartisan truce on once-mired nominations to fill a cluster of vacancies in the president’s second-term administration.
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Senators approved Samantha Power for the post by an 87-10 vote, which put the former Obama foreign policy adviser and outspoken human rights advocate into the job formerly held by Susan Rice, whom the president has made his national security adviser.
Power joined a stack of nominees that senators have approved since striking a bipartisan deal in mid-July. Republicans agreed to allow votes on seven of Obama’s picks after Democrats agreed to drop plans to invoke the so-called nuclear option, forcing Senate rules changes that would have made it harder for the chamber’s minority parties to block some nominations.
Over the past three weeks, senators have approved Obama’s choices to head the Environmental Protection Agency, the FBI, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other agencies.
The Irish-born Power, a onetime journalist with a Harvard Law School degree, has reported from many of the world’s trouble spots and won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for a book on the meek US response to many 20th century atrocities, including those in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s. She has long backed intervention — including military force — to halt human rights violations.
That just makes the situation worse and violates more human rights. Certainly makes military force look more moral, though.
Speaking against her nomination was Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida.
He said the next UN ambassador must focus on making sure the world organization is ‘‘more accountable, that it is more effective, and that it is just not some multilateral ideal in which we invest all of our hopes.’’ He said he doubted the administration’s and Power’s willingness to do that.
Power’s penchant for outspokenness includes her 2002 call for a ‘‘mammoth protection force’’ to prevent Middle Eastern violence, from which she has distanced herself. She also called the UN’s inaction to end the large-scale killing in Syria’s civil war ‘‘a disgrace that history will judge harshly.’’
Looks like that is where we are headed next, yeah.
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The word Israel never appeared in that piece.
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