US Ambassador to the United Nations

John Bolton famously said of the United Nations : "There is no such thing as the United Nations. United States makes the U.N. work when it wants it to work. If the U.N. Secretariat building in New York lost 10 stories, it would not make a bit of difference".

Well, his unwelcomed time at 1 UN Plaza is over :

Bolton's attempt to hang on to his diplomatic post, already tenuous, became even more problematic after Democrats who had blocked his nomination won control of the Senate in November elections. Bolton has held the job on a temporary basis.

Bolton had a history of angering diplomats and colleagues in his previous State Department job and could not gain sufficient support from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to stay on despite winning praise from some envoys at the United Nations.

Surprising some White House officials still searching for a way for him to keep his job, Bolton submitted a resignation letter to President George W. Bush on Friday. Aides said Bush thought about it over the weekend before reluctantly accepting it.

Bush reluctantly accepted it. It being that pesky little thing called the real world. The real world being that wretched thing that keeps getting in the way of Bush's reality.

Reality ... as Marth would say, "It's a good thing".