By Steve Clemons

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.

I just joined Move America Forward‘s website. One has to register to be able to vote on the organization’s online poll regarding Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the U.N. The question posed is: Do you support President Bush’s choice of John Bolton to serve as U.S.

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.