I'm glad to see Hopalong Cassidy aka John Bolton gone, but to his credit he seems to have curbed his behavior sharply during his recess appointment. But without the threat of a pending Senate confirmation ahead of him, who knows how he would have acted?
My morning paper mentioned Lincoln Chafee as one of the possible replacements for Bolton. I doubt this would happen (Chafee is part of the nearly extinct moderate GOP wing, and was strongly opposed to Bolton, the GWB neocons strongly supported a right wing opponent to him in the GOP primary) but that would be great for America if it happened-and would at least give GWB some pretense at actually reaching across the isle.