Bye Bye Bolton

Steve Clemons has followed the John Bolton confirmation process with great zeal. He has several inside sources and has written about Bolton all over the internet. Clemons informs us that Bolton will never get confirmed. It's over.

John Bolton might agree to serve as the uncompensated Ambassador to the UN in a second recess appointment, or might agree to serve as a recess appointed political deputy at the UN and made "acting Ambassador and Chief of Mission" at a pay cut.

Bolton will likely become the first unconfirmed U.N. Ambassador in U.S. history. It might have something to do with Bolton's infamous quote.

"If the U.N. Secretariat building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

Bolton is not the least bit repetent about his rants against the United Nations.

Sen. Norm Coleman:

Ambassador Bolton, Now that you have been up at the UN for a while, gotten inside and seen how it works up close, have you come to think that some of your earlier views of the UN were misplaced, or think that some parts of the institution are better and other parts worse? What do you think now of the UN after being up there? Have your views changed at all?

Ambassador John Bolton:

Nope, not a bit (laughter)

That kind of rhetoric is normal for a third world despot. Not an American diplomat.