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.

I have a number of important items that I will be posting today and tomorrow that need to be added to John Bolton’s file. On Monday, I will also be posting a roster of questions that Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should be asking John Bolton.

Paul Richter reports that Bolton’s nomination will be far more contentious than originally expected and that the Democrats, for the first time, will most likely unanimously oppose a Bush administration diplomatic choice. Richter reports: Democrats are likely to vote unanimously against John Bolton when his nomination to be U.S.

This is intriguing. Bolton’s ethically challenged pettiness rages full throttle in the tale that follows. Do read the three excerpts. First, in November 1987, Legal Times writer James Lyons reported that: The once mighty National Congressional Club has fallen on hard times. The club, the Raleigh, N.C.-based right-wing political action committee associated with Sen.

Lots of right-wing pundits (I won’t call them conservatives — because most conservatives I know are with the centrists and liberals when it comes to the issue of John Bolton) invoked the name of late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in trying to buff up the tarnished image of John Bolton as George Bush’s ambassadorial nominee…

Here is an excellent write-up by David Corn on the long litany of reasons why John Bolton is really up for the wrong job. Amusingly, David forgot he had co-written one of the best pieces on Bolton’s bad side 16 years ago for The Nation.

Citizens for Global Solutions has taken its video clip of John Bolton arguing against the very concept of the United Nations and has turned it into a compelling television commercial. The commercial starts running in TV markets tomorrow. Here is an excerpt from the announcement: On Thursday, March 31st StopBolton.

This was the lead piece in the latest CQ Today U.N. NOMINEE BOLTON GETS SCRUTINY FROM SENATE DEMOCRATS Senate Democrats are digging through John R. Bolton’s record to see whether there is enough controversy in his hard-line views on international security to derail his nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has reported to Stern Magazine in Germany that he was furious that he was misled about Iraq’s WMD programs before his February 2003 address to the U.N. Security Council.

While Senior Vice President at the American Enterprise Institute, John Bolton wrote this about the United Nations: Here is an excerpt that appeared today at ThinkProgress.com: This deep philosophical disjunction between the prevailing ethos of the United Nations and the fundamental American approach to governance is not something that will change in the foreseeable future….