Well ladies and gents, Bolton has passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is headed to a vote by the full Senate.

Panel Sends Bolton Nomination to Senate

The panel voted along party lines 10-8 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Of note is that they did it WITHOUT recommendation.

"The Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-8 along party lines to advance Bolton's nomination without the customary recommendation that the Senate approve it. The procedural move spared Bush outright defeat in the Republican-led committee but still represented an embarrassing setback early in his second term."

Republican Senator George Voinovich, who surprised other Republicans by indicating he was not comfortable with voting last month to send Bolton to the Senate, said today,

"The pivotal vote came from Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich, who said Bolton was a sometime bully whose short fuse would have gotten him fired in the private sector.

'This is not behavior that should be endorsed as the face of the United States to the world community at the
United Nations,' Voinovich said. 'It is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.'"

So on to the Senate you go Mr. Bolton. Have a good trip. I wish you all the luck in the world. Not that you will need it. I don't expect many Senators to have the balls to vote their conscience, no they will vote how their party wants them to.