America loses top advocate

Bush Accepts Bolton's U.N. Resignation

WASHINGTON — Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White House said Monday.

Bolton's nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican who lost in the midterm elections Nov. 7 that swept Democrats to power in both houses of Congress, was adamantly opposed to Bolton.

Critics have questioned Bolton's brusque style and whether he could be an effective public servant who could help bring reform to the U.N.

President Bush, in a statement, said he was "deeply disappointed that a handful of United States senators prevented Ambassador Bolton from receiving the up or down vote he deserved in the Senate."

"They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time," Bush said. "This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country, and discourages men and women of talent from serving their nation."

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, said Bolton's departure could be a turning point for the administration.

"With the Middle East on the verge of chaos and the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea increasing, we need a United Nations ambassador who has the full support of Congress and can help rally the international community to tackle the serious threats we face," Kerry said. He said it was an opportunity for Bush to nominate an ambassador "who enjoys the support necessary to unite our country and the world and who can put results ahead of ideology."

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Thanks, Linc. Good luck making a living in the private sector.

As usual, John Kerry is clueless -- without clue. With the exception of the UK and Australia, the vaunted "international community" is a feckless lot.

Bolton was just the man the U.S., hell, the Civilized World, needed at the U.N. representing the last best hope of Mankind. He was not, as Kerry desires, a U.N. Ambassador to the U.S., rather he represented our interests in front of that corrupt, effete assemblage of crooks, savages and anti-Semites.

Any hope of reforming the UN is pretty much shot to hell. It has essentially reduced itself to providing a forum for lunatics like Chavez and Ahmadinejad while sittling idly by as genocide continues in places like Darfur.

In light of that, perhaps Kerry is correct. Who better to represent the U.S. at the UN than an anti-American, anti-Israel, dictator coddler.

We understand Jimmy Carter is available.