This news from Capitol Hill: Senate Democrats have forced a delay in the confirmation vote for President Bush’s nominee for UN ambassador, John Bolton. The vote to advance Bolton’s nomination to an immediate confirmation vote was 56-42–four short of the 60 votes that Bolton’s Republican backers needed. Democrats yesterday charged that the White House had stiff-armed the Senate over classified information on Bolton’s tenure in his current job as the State Department’s arms control chief, and demanded more information before the Senate can give Bolton an up-or-down vote. Here is California Senator Barbara Boxer: “Now what kind of credibility does he have walking onto the floor of the United Nations. Even if he’s baby-sat by Condi Rice who says she’s going to watch over him. What kind of credibility does the man have? He has this record of politicizing intelligence, he has this record of retribution, he has the most unprecedented opposition of anyone.” California Senator Barbara Boxer. A final vote on Bolton will not take place until at least June, after the Senate returns from a Memorial Day recess.