I’m in Denver for the weekend — out here for a conference on U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations organized by the Center for China-U.S. Cooperation and the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

We know the answer, and so does Paul Light: Blind Loyalty. However, Light’s article today in Newsday posits some very interesting questions about what the personnel appointment/screening process does and does not do when on automatic pilot.

This morning’s Providence Journal has an excellent political column looking forward to the next Senate race in Rhode Island and assessing the impact of Lincoln Chafee’s decision not to stand by John Bolton — but rather to stand by Bush’s decision — on John Bolton. Here is an excerpt from the piece by M.

Finally, some honesty from Bolton supporters is making its way out of the muck. Whereas much of the support for Bolton has had the veneer of being about United Nations reform, what Bolton proponents really want is a ferocious show-down with Iran and North Korea through the United Nations — not because the U.N.

Newsweek‘s Michael Hirsh and Eve Conant have reported another aspect of John Bolton’s delinquency during his last job. Virtually all players in the current review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty blame Bolton for not preparing the U.S. position.

Here is the opener to a long column I wrote today for my good friend, Martin Walker, who is Chief Editor of UPI: Outside View: GOP Ranks Shaken by Bolton Nomination by Steven C. Clemons The battle over John Bolton, President Bush’s pick for U.S.

I’m impressed with Doug Jehl’s audio show on the Bolton hearing this week. Someday, TWN will have this sort of capacity. I think it’s an interesting way to reach people who wantt interesting audio snippets. Enjoy.

Chris Nelson is having some fun today and just did a nice job reporting on White House Spokesman Scott McClellan not correcting or modifying Condoleeza Rice’s assurances to Senators that they need not worry about Bolton’s behavior — as she would “supervise him.

Sources in the White House tell TWN that there is genuine shock and disbelief among the Executive Office ranks about the difficulties of getting Bolton confirmed for the U.N. One source reported that “this all seems so unprecedented.

Lynne Cheney, the Vice President’s wife, has spoken incessantly about the need to provide good moral examples for children and teens in America. But now her husband and others are arguing that Bolton-style bullying “is just what the U.N. needs.” I can see the ads being developed now.