My friend, John Aravosis who publishes AmericaBlog, is guest-hosting the Michelangelo Signorile Show and has asked me to share what’s going on with the John Bolton/United Nations controversy, the recent bankruptcy legislation, and other fun stuff. If you are a subscriber, feel free to tune in.

I have learned from a friend of mine who is an excellent journalist who is generally sympathetic to and hangs with the neocon wing in the country that John Bolton himself reads my blog. Just to be fair in case any one knows who I’m talking about, this journalist strongly disagrees with me on Bolton….

The Washington Note has just learned that the anti-United Nations, non-profit organization called ‘Move America Forward‘ not only rejects international institutions and international law — but has a pretty high disregard for U.S. laws as well.

Richard Holbrooke met John Bolton on Tuesday morning, 15 March, in Washington — just before a full committee hearing of the House International Relations Committee called by Henry Hyde on United Nations reform.

Bob Kuttner has a powerful op-ed this morning in the Boston Globe on President Bush’s nominations of John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz.

Move America Forward, a right-wing non-profit organization which both supports John Bolton’s nomination and wants the United Nations removed from U.S. soil miraculously moved their Bolton support numbers on an online poll from 216 votes to 471 votes overnight.

I am sitting here trying to get a few friends to oppose Bolton on the Move America Forward website — and have posted my objectives on a couple of websites. Well, the other side is on to us. I see their numbers literally surging after not moving for more than two days.

I just joined Move America Forward‘s website. One has to register to be able to vote on the organization’s online poll regarding Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the U.N. The question posed is: Do you support President Bush’s choice of John Bolton to serve as U.S.

Mark Goldberg posted this today: Hopefully, Feingold won’t wait until the confirmation hearing to make up his mind, for Bolton is likely to undergo another “confirmation conversion” (as John Kerry labeled Bolton’s 2001 testimony), whereby Bolton repudiates incendiary comments which he previously hurled at various American presidents, U.S. policies, foreign leaders, and international institutions.

I have found some more on John Bolton’s think tank management controversy. Think tanks are usually organized as 501c3 organizations — organized for the public good but increasingly they are becoming money laundering operations for lobbyists or corporate consulting shops. It seems that John Bolton helped the National Policy Forum move well down this path….