This post by Steve Clemons seems almost perfect to me.

Clemons advises Lincoln Chafee to vote against Bolton. In this post he argues, convincingly, that voting for Bolton would hurt Chafee poltically. The tone is much much more in sorrow than in anger, and Clemons is careful to praise Chafee while gently explaining all that he and others can and will do t to make such a vote as costly as possible.


Clemons and others have already convincingly argued that voting against confirmation is the right thing to do. The most credit is due to Bolton who would rather get caught committing perjury than say he now believes that in the past he was wrong (that would be perjury too but he wouldn't be demonstrably so).

However, the post is not perfect as Clemons has more in common with Matthew Yglesias than just being brilliant, principled and very hard working as is shown by this quote "Chafee may be in an even deeper whole than he might guess if Hagel or any one of these other Senators jumps ship before he does." At least he didn't misquote Ford as saying that Bolton had reamed Westermann a hole new whole.

I show I am a twit with this ad homonym attack, but I can't help myself.