This just in….The hearings on John Bolton are most likely being rescheduled. This is not official. The current unofficial plan is to schedule the hearings on Monday, 11 April. This is good.
The big question that many of my like-minded friends who support American leadership in the world and who support American engagement in reforming the U.N. is whether it helps or hurts to postpone John Bolton’s hearings because of the Pope’s funeral in Rome. There is a Senate delegation heading to Rome.
Bob Boorstin and Andrew Grotto penned this interesting and important op-ed which appeared in the Baltimore Sun today. I have excerpted it and turned some of their material into key talking points. From their piece: Mr. Bolton’s failures directly concern what are the gravest threats to U.S.
This in. . .but please note that what I have is all rumor. No one will talk — but the rumors indicate some effort by the White House to invest more in acquiring Senator Lincoln Chafee‘s “aye” vote in favor of John Bolton’s confirmation hearings.
The American Prospect‘s Mark Leon Goldberg gets at one of the key deficits in John Bolton’s profile. Bolton frequently verges on the edge of insubordination, which isn’t always a bad thing in some climates, but is when representing the President of the United States.
Yes, Alan Keyes is on the list. Here is the letter signed by leading “security practitioners” favoring John Bolton’s confirmation as Ambassador to the United Nations.
The Al Franken Show has asked me to join the program for a half hour or so tomorrow chatting about the many profound problems regarding John Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the U.N.
Reports have come in that Senator Russ Feingold got an ear-full about John Bolton during his annual “listening sessions” tour last week in Wisconsin. This from the Badger-Herald: Bolton, President Bush’s choice to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was the recipient of nearly unanimous scorn Friday from local residents attending Democratic U.S….
While Fox News decided to mock some of the names among 62 Ambassadorial signatories of a letter opposing John Bolton’s U.N. nomination, most of America’s media establishment has treated the letter and the diplomats who signed with the respect that their service to this country more than justifies.
Yesterday, I participated in a planning meeting with some of our nation’s most talented political advisors and communications specialists. There were only about 15 people in the meetings that ran for five hours Thursday evening and through much of the day Friday — and our discussion focused a lot on foreign policy questions.