Steve Clemons of The Washington Note reports that GOP Senators are “scrounging quietly for more reasons to oppose” Bolton. The “Nays” are at 46, Clemons says, “Ben Nelson is up in the air,” “Arlen Specter is ‘uncomfortable’,” the “NSA intercept information or Syria material” may push Chuck Hagel, and so on:

TWN had a phone call from a Republican Senate office today asking for more on the “intelligence issues.” And no one thinks that this Senator is in play. I won’t disclose who it is — but I will say that the tectonics of this debate are shifting further than they recognize against the White House.


Then Clemons explores the BIG BUT: “What IF John Bolton Gets a Recess Appointment to U.N. Ambassadorship?”