The Washington Post editorial writers today on the Bolton recess appointment:

An ambassador who lacks the explicit support of Congress speaks less securely for the nation than one who enters the U.N. Security Council with the Senate’s blessing. But, again, whose fault is that? Democrats had every chance to muster the votes to defeat the nomination; they couldn’t do it. If Mr. Bolton is now heading to New York without the Senate’s imprimatur but with a figurative asterisk beside his name, that’s only because, having failed to defeat him, a minority refused to lose gracefully.”