UN Ambassador John Bolton to Resign « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Associated Press reported today that John Bolton has resigned as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

First, I’d like to congratulate our friends at the Stop Bolton, Citizens for Global Solutions and other groups fighting hard to preserve the United Nations. This is a time to be building on a fixing our international institutions, not dismantling them.

We shouldn’t interpret the resignation of John Bolton in a shift in policy, but one thing is for sure. It will be difficult for President Bush to find someone as intelligent and strategic yet devious and filled with so much misplaced paranoid animosity towards the UN as John Bolton.

Our friends who duked it out at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi may be more familiar (and frustrated) with US climate negotiator Harlan Watson. But from the long-time accounts at Bolton Watch, John Bolton was just a nuisance he was a threat to the entire international process. On behalf of everyone who cared, I’d like to offer an enthusiasic ‘good riddance to bad rubbish”

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A self described "professional rabble-rouser," Josh brings his ethic of stirring up the system to his work with the Energy Action Coalition. Josh is currently the Field Director for Energy Action Coalition and the Power Vote Campaign and he is working every day to get young people out to vote for Clean and Just Energy this November. Previous to EAC, Josh served as Deputy Director for Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), where he coordinated campaigns to promote solutions to global warming across the Chesapeake region. Recent victories include the Healthy Air Act, the Maryland Clean Cars Bill, and numerous clean energy policies at colleges across the region.