Bush skunked ’em and it kills ’em. Thur. night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, he said, “Did Bush give you any indication how many troops he would use to support the commitment as he described to you today?” RUSSERT: No. But Chris, to give you a sense of his mindset, when he is asked to […]

September 13, 2007 Child’s Play In Iraq By Michael J. O’Shea “I am reminded of the time I saw my 3-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes. She got angry. Still, she kept trying. “‘This is difficult,’ she concluded. ‘But I like difficult.’” A child grittier than Congressional leaders, spunkier than people twenty […]

They may have won the House and Senate but, the way the Democrats think today is definitely a minority. Their mode of thinking, their view of the world, their view of this country’s place in the world, is a minority opinion in this country. They may not even realize it. When you have a bunch […]

Sept 10-07 Tom Lantos, who is co-chairing the committee (he’s from California) told Petraeus (I’m going to have to paraphrase this) that he knows — he, Lantos, and all Congress knows — that Petraeus and Crocker have been sent up there to convince the Congress and the American people that victory is at hand. Lantos […]

You know, ladies and gentlemen, it’s amazing. The Democrats‘ experts on the military, they have no concept how to win. They don’t want to win, and they challenge the integrity and honor of General Petraeus, sitting before them in full military dress with his fourlie to them. They also tell us they need to run […]