Anyone who reads my blog will know that I’m not very good at humor. I attended an interesting meeting today and met Duncan Black who publishes one of the biggest-reach blogs, Eschaton, and noted that when people read his stuff, they get great one-liners.
My problems with John Bolton are about serious “loose cannon” behavior in the realm of national security and foreign policy — but I have to admit that what has popularized John Bolton as a household name (well. . .almost) are questions about his treatment of people in the workplace.
Linda Chavez, if betting now, said she didn’t think Bolton was going to make it through confirmation. This from a recent AFP report: Linda Chavez, a former official in the Ronald Reagan and elder George Bush administrations, was even more pessimistic.
Bill Richardson made some news today suggesting that John Bolton might just squeak through — but it seems that his comments were of the wagering sort, on how he saw the very close odds, not on the substance of the nomination.
Bob Herbert wrote this beautiful and powerful tribute to the work and memory of Marla Ruzicka who refused to let victims of war go unacknowledged, uncounted, unremembered. She was killed a week ago Saturday in Iraq.
Many have asked that I provide an easy roster of contact information for Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Wow. John Aravosis is brilliant. To paraphrase Jesse Helms who once said this about John Bolton, “John Aravosis is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon.” Check out the lastest pro-Boltonism from Frank Gaffney, David Frum, and Michael Ledeen at ConfirmBolton.com.
Time Magazine ran this little snippet: . . .Bolton’s confirmation looks far from assured. That has not prevented the nominee, however, from moving through his to-do list. Government sources tell TIME that after he was nominated in early March, Bolton requested that all American employees of the U.S. mission to the U.N.
One of the strongest cards that John Bolton had to play was sitting as the titular head of the Proliferation Security Initiative, a somewhat ad hoc coaltion of willing nations concerned with stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Arlen Specter (R-PA) gave an indication yesterday of what a battle over John Bolton might look like if Bolton’s nomination did move out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the Senate Floor.
