Filibustered Bolton Nominated for Nobel Prize

John Bolton (who Senate Democrats filibustered) and Ken Timmerman were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran's secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.

They documented Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealed Iran's "repeated lying" and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a press release said.

Bolton formerly served as U.S. undersecretary for arms control and international security, and he authored the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to block WMD shipments. The effort eventually unmasked the secret nuclear network directed by Pakistan nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan.

Bolton has little chance of winning the Nobel (read: Anti-American) Prize, but the fact that he helped uncover two clandestine nuclear programs - and was still filibustered by Democrats - says all you need to know about the Democratic national security policy.