This just in

From The Washington Post:

WASHINGTON -- Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White House said Monday.

Bolton's nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican who lost in the midterm elections Nov. 7 that swept Democrats to power in both houses of Congress, was adamantly opposed to Bolton.

Bolton is smart enough to know that now that the party which hates America and wants to see it destroyed is in control of the Senate that he has no chance of being confirmed.

It would be amusing if the President let the post go vacant unitl Congress went into recess again and then gave him another recess appointment, but I don't think Bush will go that route.