Bolton: A Fight About Politics or Principles?

That's the question being asked by the main CNN poll right now, and for me, and a majority of those responding (so far), the fight is and should be about principles.

There's more here than the fact that John Bolton is an outlandishly, outrageously bad choice for our face at the U.N. (but an excellent selection if your goal, as the Bushies' seems to be, to give the finger to the rest of the world), which in itself is a huge issue.

Much of the paperwork on Bolton has not been released to the senators who must confirm him, and specifically, to the Dem senators. This is reflective of how the Bushies do business: they shut anyone but Bush loyalists out of discussions, meetings, documentation.

We've already seen with Iraq what happens if we simply take the Bush rhetoric for truth. You would think that Washington and the rest of the country would have learned. But the Bushies still proclaim that they don't have to tell us, don't have to back up their claims with proof, don't have to behave like there is anyone else in the world.