I just scanned the Sunday morning papers and there isn’t a damn thing of much interest. The Sunday morning talk lineup features Sen. John Warner (R-VA) on Meet the Press and John and Elizabeth Edwards on Face the Nation. Those might be worth watching. Obama has announced a plan to fix New Orleans. The biggest news is, of course, that the DNC has stripped Florida of its delegates. If we don’t get that fixed we’ll severely undermine our chances of winning the state next November. Florida is like a curse.
But, if Florida is bad, Iraq is worse:
When Rep. Jan Schakowsky made her first trip to Iraq this month, the outspoken antiwar liberal resolved to keep her opinions to herself. “I would listen and learn,” she decided.
At times that proved a challenge, as when Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told her congressional delegation, “There’s not going to be political reconciliation by this September; there’s not going to be political reconciliation by next September.” Schakowsky gulped — wasn’t that the whole idea of President Bush’s troop increase, to buy time for that political progress?
But the real test came over a lunch with Gen. David H. Petraeus, who used charts and a laser pointer to show how security conditions were gradually improving — evidence, he argued, that the troop increase is doing some good.
Still, the U.S. commander cautioned, it could take another decade before real stability is at hand. Schakowsky gasped. “I come from an environment where people talk nine to 10 months,” she said, referring to the time frame for withdrawal that many Democrats are advocating. “And there he was, talking nine to 10 years.”
Schakowsky emerged with more resolve to start bringing the troops home.
David Broder continues to pimp for a Bloomberg-Hagel ticket. If you didn’t already know, Broder is suffering from the early onset of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Or something.
At least Broder isn’t advocating imprecatory prayer.
Oh..and this Congress is getting more done than Newt Gingrich’s 1995 Congress. Hard to believe, but true.
