The Bolton resignation

I want to recommend a short and simple article called "It's time, yet again, to call bullshit on Bush." Here's how it gets started:

In the wake of the resignation of John Bolton, now, thankfully, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the president is laying it all at the feet of political obstruction instead of the fact that the Senate, for once, used good sense in not affirming his nominee for this delicate job.

According to an Associated Press report, the president is bitter, "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...this stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country and discourages men and women of talent from serving their nation," he said.

Bullshit.

Bolton was forced to cut and run, a victim of his own inability to function as a tactful and patient diplomat, a fact recognized by both parties who let his appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations die on the vine and force his resignation.

I'm glad he's out but a comment posted at the end of the article gives me pause:

There's already a buzz about the possibility that Bush might appoint Joe Liebermann to the same spot during the Christmas recess. This would allow Connecticut's Republican governor to appoint his replacement and thus return GOP control to the Senate.

That would not be good. That would not be good at all.