Bye Bye Bolton

Early Xmas present: Lunatic fringe hero John Bolton has resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Having given Bolton a temporary recess appointment, Bush would have had to get Bolton appointed the old fashioned way this time, with a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. No dice, even if Dems hadn't won back the Senate.

I've been thinking about proposing that Bolton grow a shaggy beard to go along with his shaggy gray mustache and floppy hair and get a job as a Macy's Santa Claus, but that would be cruel to the children. Maybe we should give him a pooper scooper and hire him to follow after Santa's reindeer to make himself useful. After all he was always good at bullsh*t, wasn't he? Just a sample:

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. --John Bolton