Mark Goldberg posted this today: Hopefully, Feingold won’t wait until the confirmation hearing to make up his mind, for Bolton is likely to undergo another “confirmation conversion” (as John Kerry labeled Bolton’s 2001 testimony), whereby Bolton repudiates incendiary comments which he previously hurled at various American presidents, U.S. policies, foreign leaders, and international institutions.
I have found some more on John Bolton’s think tank management controversy. Think tanks are usually organized as 501c3 organizations — organized for the public good but increasingly they are becoming money laundering operations for lobbyists or corporate consulting shops. It seems that John Bolton helped the National Policy Forum move well down this path….
I have been scrambling on an important article spinning off of John Bolton’s time at the American Enterprise Institute, but I wanted to note two excellent articles by the American Prospect‘s Michael Tomasky.
Max Blumenthal took this picture in the Gila National Forest, near Silver City, New Mexico. Thanks to Max for letting me post this. Silver City is a cool town. Jeff Bingaman was born and raised there. And the Republican Senator and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt whom Bingman beat is also a Silver City native.
Joshua Micah Marshall and Millet Israeli are getting married today in the Hamptons — and that is where I’m headed this afternoon. This blog wouldn’t exist without Josh’s stong nudging, and he is one of the few people I completely trust. Congratulations to Josh, Millet, and their puppy Simon for punctuating their togetherness today.
Wolfowitz calls Bono. Nixon made small talk with Elvis — but it didn’t make it right.
Michael Lind doesn’t mince words in his comments on Paul Wolfowitz moving to head the World Bank. He notes that Wolfowitz has been “astonishingly wrong about U.S. foreign policy for 30 years.
This just from Senator Barack Obama‘s office on subject of Wolfowitz and Bolton nominations: While there are some concerns about Wolfowitz, I am much more concerned about Bolton and the UN, which is a direct statement on how we’re going to interact with the international community.
Two people I respect — Martin Walker and Sebastian Mallaby — are divided on George Bush’s nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to run the World Bank. Martin Walker has my vote this round.