Reports are coming in that conflict with CNN’s tip that Edith Brown Clement will be nominated by President Bush tonight. Apparently, ABC News is reporting that she will not be the nominee. Keep your powder dry. . .More later.

There will be a great number of legal analysts who pore over the record of Edith Brown Clement to debate whether she is the next version of an ideologically-predictable Antonin Scalia or a more pragmatic Sandra Day O’Connor-type. President Bush is allegedly primed to nominate her at 9 p.m. Eastern time tonight.

So, the failure to get a deal on the NSA intercepts and Syria testimony documentation is all Senate Majority Leader Frist’s fault? So goes it if one thinks through White House spokesman Trent Duffy’s comments on the Bolton nomination at Friday’s press gaggle aboard Air Force One enroute to Charlotte, North Carolina.

When nominations by the President make sense, they typically fly through without a hitch. Just check out the line-up that Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will discuss on Friday, July 22nd: Ms. Karen P. Hughes To be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, with the Rank of Ambassador The Honorable Josette S….

My email backlog is 10,732 — but I am finally whittling it down.

Political cartoons are hit-and-miss with me, but this one on the scrubbed Bolton launch gave me a chuckle. Note to Fred Fleitz: What do you know on Valerie Plame? Who did you give this information to? Call me. — Steve Clemons (ed.

There are a lot of theories brewing as to who promulgated the Plame outing inside the White House, and the latest thought-provoking piece is here. I recommend that you read the entire article, not necessarily to endorse or own all of its conclusions.

The press corps keeps reminding the White House that is has a Bolton problem on its hands. Scott McClellan, when asked about where the White House stood on Bolton gave the routine response of Bush still wanting an up-or-down vote.

Officials in the White House, the State Department and in the Senate close to the Senate-White House fight over Bolton’s nomination to serve as U.S.

TWN is hearing two divergent lines on Bolton. The first is that Bolton wants and will get a recess appointment in August. They argue that the legislative fight to get him confirmed is over.