John Bolton

The Bush administration’s popularity and influence have never been lower.  read more »

At least one former member of the Bush administration’s State Department began celebrating whe  read more »

Jason Horowitz has a story on Hillary Clinton's Obama-inspired outreach to officials and donors, including Eliot Engel's description of what she laid out as her winning presidential scenario.

Matthew Schuerman writes about the mayor's evolved position on corporate welfare.

Niall Stanage reports on the celebrations in some quarters over John Bolton's demise. There's some particularly brutal stuff in there from Colin Powell's chief of staff, who clashed repeatedly with Bolton at the State Department.

Michael Calderone looks at the way that the New York Times has become the beneficiary of a leak bonanza from the Bush administration. And Mike DeBonis provides a glimpse of Johnny Apple's memorial service yesterday.

Joe Conason applauds Robert Gates for delivering a blunt assessment of the war in Iraq, but predicts that it won't change anything.

And Steve Kornacki says that Mitt Romney is faking it.

-- Josh Benson

Pity poor John Bolton.

No, really.  read more »

Pity poor John Bolton.   No, really.    read more »

Here's part of a typically measured statement John Spencer just sent out about Hillary Clinton's uncertain attitude towards confirming U.N. Ambassador John Bolton:

"Dissent and debate are healthy in the democratic process, but now is not the time to question a presidential appointment. I call on Senator Clinton to stop playing politics with national security and join in support of the Bolton appointment. Anything less sends the wrong message to the nation and the world. If Senator Clinton truly supports Israel, if she really believes that we need to get tough with Iran and North Korea, then she should see that John Bolton is the man for the job. If, on the other hand, she believes that making news to promote her candidacy for President is appropriate she should continue her caterwauling in the halls of Congress."

-- Josh Benson  read more »

Also in the Observer, Niall Stanage has an interview with Lebanon's highly depressed UN representative, who describes a confrontation with his Israeli counterpart and a seeming inability to communicate with John Bolton.

And John Koblin writes about the legacy of Tom Manton.

-- Josh Benson

John Bolton and Israeli Ambassador Arye Mekel hold a discussion at B'Nai Zion America-Israel Friendship House.

Adolfo Carrion announces funding to complete reconstruction of Seton Park Little League ballfield in the Bronx.

David Paterson and state Senate candidate Brooke Ellison discuss stem cell research at the Spitzer-Paterson field office in Huntington.

John Faso addresses the Rockland Business Association at the Suffern Holiday Inn.

Mike Bloomberg speaks at the graduation ceremony and reception for STRIVE program participants at Gracie Mansion.

—Nicole Brydson

Diplomats at the United Nations have found U.S.  read more »

Diplomats at the United Nations have found U.S.  read more »

The American Enterprise Institute has been all over the New York Times this week. First it was Sally Satel, resident scholar, on the Op-Ed page Monday, saying Let's have a free market for the sale of human organs. Then yesterday it was Christina Hoff Sommers, giving the lead quotation in a House & Home section about men fighting for hideaway spaces in their homes.

The AEI is bacccck! The thinktank that has suffered such thinkability issues, that gave us Dick Cheney and John Bolton and Richard Perle and on and on and helped bring somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths to Iraq, that George Bush said had given him more brains than any other organization—the AEI is putting its best foot forward. Maybe its only foot: its women scholars, the softer foot, the one that stamps the ground about political correctness.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be in the Times. Let 100 flowers bloom. But maybe their i.d. slug should say, the AEI,whose scholars promoted the war in Iraq.

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