John Brummett - Letting George surge for now
Why couldn’t Democrats simply pull the plug? They didn’t have enough votes.
Some in their party saw things this way: The surge was already happening and the president was executing it under authority Democrats granted him. Democrats had no choice - militarily or politically - but to pay […]

Well, another example of that things are changing in NWA. Here’s an editorial from the Morning News giving a reasonable response to the new immigration bill. 
It is neither economically or logistically feasible to round up 12 million undocumented workers and deport them. So it makes sense to find ways to identify them and, for the ones willing to […]

Let us be honest, any smart attorney would not come near the DOJ. You have a lame duck President, a department that the top bosses (Gonzales, McNulty, Sampson, Goodling-that’s just who we know now) are teetering on impeachment or potentially facing criminal charges. And those that are currently in the DOJ, your potential colleagues, may well […]

Courtesy of Welcome to Pottersville - Maureen Dowd: Bush’s Fleurs du Mal
For me, the saddest spot in Washington is the inverted V of the black granite Vietnam wall, jutting up with the names of young men dying in a war that their leaders already knew could not be won.
So many died because of ego and deceit […]

Courtesy of Welcome to Pottersville - Frank Rich
When all else fails, those pious Americans who conceived and directed the Iraq war fall back on moral self-congratulation: at least we brought liberty and democracy to an oppressed people. But that last-ditch rationalization has now become America’s sorriest self-delusion in this tragedy.
However wholeheartedly we disposed of their […]