#3 Eight former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, including Madeleine Albright and Jeane Kirkpatrick, also weighed in, telling lawmakers in a letter that withholding of dues would "create resentment, build animosity and actually strengthen opponents of reform."
OOOOOOOHHH! Horrors! Create animosity. Heavens, we would not like that to happen to us in the UN.
I like what the House did. Hit the UN thugs, bureaucrats, and ne'er do wells where it hurts---in their pocketbooks. If these unelected, unaccountable do-nothing bureaucrats want to play their games, bash the US, and beg for help when they need it, then they can do it on their own nickel or Euro. I hope the Senate grows an exoskeleton and passes it. Congress controls the purse, not the President, though I do not know if this bill would survive a presidental veto. But it is a start. Hats off to the House. Ball is in the Senate's Court.
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