John Bolton

Bolton turned in his resignation to Bush today as US Ambassador to the UN. Bush accepted it, but said he wasn't happy about it.

I haven't followed Bolton much since Bush decided to appoint him as interim, working around the Democratic filibuster and I believe even some Republican opponents at the time. I heard today of a few complaints against him, but by and large he doesn't seem to have messed up significantly.

All that is to say that I don't know whether he would be okay in the UN or not.

But it does seem to be a bit of justice today to see Bush having to accept his resignation in the face of a Democratic Congress. For the first five years or so in office Bush, Cheney, and friends did whatever they pleased while Fox News and others villified anyone who dared question their will.

I was thinking of that Dixie Chick and what Fox, Scarborough, and all had to say about her. There were other Hollywood voices that protested the war (who was that actor who played the president on West Wing) and the media pretty much skewered them. Of course I have no time for Michael Moore or that woman who lost her son and went off the deep end.

But it's time for a moment of truth. If we stop for a minute, some of the things they said turned out to be true about Iraq. It hurts, but the Fox News people should be forced to eat their words now that things are shaping up, well, exactly as those "filthy liberals" said they would back in 2003... 3000 dead soldiers later.

Look at what I blogged two years ago and apparently I understood what was going on in Iraq a lot better than a man who sits in an office getting daily intelligence briefings. What does that say?!

This started about Bolton. I don't know whether he is doing fine or not. But there is a whole lot of justice in Bush not being able to just do whatever he wants without consulting others.

(he ignored, almost shamed his father in his bull headedness to go to war and do what his father didn't. Well, he did what his father didn't. He has destabilized the whole world and potentially launched us into a period of American descendency).

Now watch it Democrats. I have seen in Nancy Palosi's early attempts at appointments the same dynamic potentially at work. ... rather than go with sane moderates, appointing her own set of whacko crazies. If God didn't spare the natural branches when he grafted you in, will he spare you?

P.S. Not to say that the Republicans are the original people of God :-)