Stick a fork in Bolton, please

So now colin Powell is quietly nixing Bush's spit-in-the-eye-of-the-UN nominee John Bolton.

Bush, via company drone Scott Mclellan, is supporting his man. He would have us believe resistance is futile. Bush says Democrats are just making stuff up. Mclellan says negative characterizations of Bolton are unsubstantiated. After a slew of republicans that rose to oppose bolton, one wonders what he would consider substantiation? Video? And Cheney called for some kind of weird solidarity with Bolton. Solidarity with what? The ability to hold allies in contempt and treat those that disagree with Bolton like untrainable dogs?

I have to believe that the average moderate American doesn't really want a fire breather in the UN. Although radio shouters and talking heads wouldn't have you believe it, believing the UN should be abolished is a radical position. It's just plain common sense to belive that we will get further in the world with the help and friendship of our allies. Why have a guy representing the country that has spent his career pissing off allies?

And of course moderate Republicans are reconsidering supporting Bolton. That's really telling in an age when one would no more expect to find a republican out of lockstep with his party than you would a talking fish.

Enough already. Stick a fork in Bolton. Please.