Bye Bye Bolton…Happy Trails and enjoy your time at the Heritage Foundation

BBC Dec. 4th:

The US ambassador to the United Nations is to leave his post when his temporary appointment runs out. John Bolton looked unable to win the necessary Senate support for him to continue in the job.
Democrats in the chamber, who objected to his combative approach at the UN, were due to reject his nomination.
He is the second high-profile member of President George W Bush's team to leave after the Republicans fared badly in last month's mid-term elections.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left shortly after the 7 November polls.
Mr Bolton took up the UN posting last year during a Congressional holiday after his nomination stalled in the Senate.
It was a procedural maneuver that avoided the need for him to be confirmed until the end of this year.
That procedure cannot be repeated, and the new climate in Congress would make it all but impossible for him to win a two-thirds majority of senators.
The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Joe Biden, had already said he saw "no point in considering Mr Bolton's nomination again". Mr Bolton's critics said a man who once declared there was "no such thing" as the UN was hardly a suitable choice to join the body. His nomination incensed many former US ambassadors - 102 of whom signed a letter urging senators to reject his nomination.
But his admirers said he was a bright, hard-working realist - whose skepticism about the UN's role made him an ideal envoy, particularly when the organization was in need of deep reform.
A White House spokeswoman said that among Mr Bolton's accomplishments, he assembled coalitions addressing North Korea's nuclear activity, Iran's uranium enrichment and reprocessing work and the horrific violence in Darfur.
He personified Washington's view of the UN, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, an institution that was viewed as being wasteful and ineffective at best and, at worst, as inimical to America's wider global interests