Bolton and Cambone Are Toast

Bolton has been stopped by the last honest Republican Senator, outgoing Lincoln Chafee, and Stephen Cambone, Rumsfeld’s torture chief, has resigned.

“The American people have spoken out against the president’s agenda on a number of fronts, and presumably one of those is on foreign policy,” Chafee told reporters in Rhode Island, according to news agency reports. “And at this late stage in my term, I’m not going to endorse something the American people have spoke out against.”

The White House resubmitted Bolton’s nomination to the Senate today in a last-ditch effort to get him confirmed before the new Congress takes power.

Ding, dong, the witch is dead.