I’m off to the Claremont Resort to spend weekend with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, Francis Fukuyama, Christine Todd Whitman, Walter Mead, Steve Rattner, and other interesting folks. I will be watching matters in the Bolton arena very closely — particularly for any late-day breaking news out of the Karl Rove operation.

Rumors are bubbling again that the White House may be cooking up a “package” that they think might appeal to the Democrats — opening the way for a potential vote on Bolton. . .but these sorts of rumors have bubbled before with nothing coming.

I’m writing this from the Red Carpet Lounge in San Francisco International Airport and have been offline today while I flew across country, but all the news looks good. This just came in from The Hill‘s E-News: GOP Action on Bolton Stalls Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.

oops, I mean Batman Begins.

Ok. . .A legitimate question might arise as to why Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts would behave so rudely and presumptiously towards his colleagues, Democrat or not, in this inquiry into the names of U.S. officials on the NSA intercepts. TWN has learned how the idea was hatched.

At about 6:30 this evening, Senator Pat Roberts proposed a so called compromise. Senator Roberts said he had gone through the minority report and found names that were listed in it, Carl Ford, Christian Westermann, Mr. Smith (Fulton Armstrong), Rexon Ryu, Jack Pritchard and two unnamed individuals.

Tonight, I am seeing Batman Begins. My friends are trying to slowly wean me off of constant “strategery” in the John Bolton battle. Don’t worry though, I think that the film will give me some new ideas. Tomorrow there could be another Bolton cloture vote.

Senate Minority Leader gave this statement this morning: BOLTON NOMINATION ~ From the outset of the debate on John Bolton’s nomination, Senate Democrats have had a clear and consistent position: If the Administration works in good faith to give the Senate the information it deserves, Senate Democrats are ready to immediately give this nomination an…

Here is a cute piece that ran in the Financial Times today on Bill Frist’s comment yesterday that during the 200 days that the U.S. Ambassador spot in the U.N. has been vacant, all sorts of momentous things have occurred.

The Washington Post‘s Charles Babington covered the Frist/McCain press conference yesterday as did Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times. In the press gaggle that followed the formal press conference, both journalists confronted John McCain with queries about Senator Bill Frist’s insistence that the Dems kept “moving the goal posts.