Today is the most important day for anyone who is engaged in the effort to send someone better than John Bolton to be America’s Ambassador to the United Nations. I will be posting a lot today — quick but important items.

Any Senator — any and all — who votes to confirm John Bolton on Tuesday this week (though there may be a further delay) not only has to sign off on the issue of Bolton’s pattern of abusive behavior, they must also sign off on the connection of such abuse to the mismanagement of intelligence…

When most observers of the John Bolton jousting match were focusing on whether Lincoln Chafee was going to support or oppose Bolton, many of his advocates and opponents did not realize that the testimony that unfolded in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as other disconcerting reports in the media had seriously shaken other…

Senator Hagel is not well-known for his sense of humor, and that is one of the reasons I like him so much.

Senator Richard Durbin’s office has just released this statement which makes clear a long roster of reasons — all serious and substantive — to question and oppose the appointment of John Bolton as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations: “At a time when we should be mending fences and strengthening old ties with our world…

How did John Bolton think he was going to get away with the emphatic testimony he gave that he did not try to get any one removed or fired from their positions and never, in any way, tried to meddle with the intelligence findings with which he was being provided by State Department intel officers?…

Chris Nelson of the uber-insider Nelson Report ran this punchy piece on Bolton and Chafee tonight — and I think he has a point about Chafee’s potential miscalculation on the impact of his support of Bolton.

This interesting article, which goes right to the heart of the Lincoln Chafee-launched question about whether John Bolton was helping or sabotaging U.S.

Big news this morning. Douglas Jehl reports that Senator Chris Dodd is digging deeper into the reasons why John Bolton requested mega-secret intercepts from the National Security Agency. From the article: John R.

Senator Chafee seems lately to be an expert in sending mixed signals. He has heard about patterned abusive behavior by John Bolton of subordinates and rivals — and has himself opened what is perhaps the most important line of questioning of Bolton and then acted like he was totally unaware of the issues he’s raised….