As Rich Lowry has been reminding us over at the Corner, Democrats broke their promise last week to hold a committee vote for John Bolton. In exchange for postponing his hearings until after the Pope’s funeral, the Democrats promised committee chair Richard Lugar a vote last week. It has since been delayed until tomorrow at the earliest.

And as Rich predicated, they are using the broken promise in a vain attempt to dig up “dirt” on Bolton’s previous record. The Washington Post provides an assist this morning, using language to describe Republicans last week as “shaken” by Bolton’s testimony. The Post anonymously cites current and former Bolton colleagues who claim he did not provide certain documents to then Secretary of State Colin Powell that Bolton critics feel he should have passed along.

A ways down, the Post does not all Republicans still plan to vote for Bolton and that in his capacity as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control he had authority in deciding which memos to pass along and when.