Archives: March 2005

John Bolton’s confirmation hearings are officially set at 9:30 a.m., Thursay, 7 April, 216 Hart Senate Office Building. See you there.

Josh Marshall caught this item about TownHall.com. The subject interests me a lot — for several reasons. I wrote a piece a while back called “Thought Control” which was paired with a TomPaine.com/Florence Fund Op-Ad in the New York Times titled “Think Tanks for Sale.

My friend, John Aravosis who publishes AmericaBlog, is guest-hosting the Michelangelo Signorile Show and has asked me to share what’s going on with the John Bolton/United Nations controversy, the recent bankruptcy legislation, and other fun stuff. If you are a subscriber, feel free to tune in.

I have learned from a friend of mine who is an excellent journalist who is generally sympathetic to and hangs with the neocon wing in the country that John Bolton himself reads my blog. Just to be fair in case any one knows who I’m talking about, this journalist strongly disagrees with me on Bolton….

The Washington Note has just learned that the anti-United Nations, non-profit organization called ‘Move America Forward‘ not only rejects international institutions and international law — but has a pretty high disregard for U.S. laws as well.

Richard Holbrooke met John Bolton on Tuesday morning, 15 March, in Washington — just before a full committee hearing of the House International Relations Committee called by Henry Hyde on United Nations reform.

Bob Kuttner has a powerful op-ed this morning in the Boston Globe on President Bush’s nominations of John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz.

Move America Forward, a right-wing non-profit organization which both supports John Bolton’s nomination and wants the United Nations removed from U.S. soil miraculously moved their Bolton support numbers on an online poll from 216 votes to 471 votes overnight.

I am sitting here trying to get a few friends to oppose Bolton on the Move America Forward website — and have posted my objectives on a couple of websites. Well, the other side is on to us. I see their numbers literally surging after not moving for more than two days.