GOP Confident Bolton Will Get U.N. Post

Democrats held out the possibility that they could try to hold up a final vote on Bolton on Thursday if they do not receive internal State Department documents and classified intelligence information they have sought for several weeks.

At the same time, Democrats said they do not plan to mount a filibuster to indefinitely block a vote, and some of their leading voices on the Bolton fight seemed to acknowledge that time is running out.

"I would seriously hope that the president — and I really don't have much hope — but I wish the president had taken another look at this and found us someone," else, argued Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del.

"This guy should not be going to the U.N.," Biden said with an air of resignation.
(AP)