John Bolton, we have heard, is “a ‘kiss-up, kick-down’ sort of guy.” In today’s New York Times, two of the people who were in position to be kissed up to by him — James Baker and Ed Meese — say that, as far as they know, he’s a splendid fellow, who “knew his place” and “took direction.”
Why am I not reassured?
In the meantime, is Lugar really willing to force a committee vote before we learn whether Bolton violated about seventy-’leven laws by using the National Security Agency to run wiretaps on his bureaucratic rivals?