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Thursday, July 24th, 2008What a day yesterday. Apparently, not only did John McCain attempt to convince America that the surge is not actually the surge except when it is politically advantageous for him to take credit for something that seems surge-y, but Bob Novak hit an innocent pedestrian with his car. Presumably he was distracted while driving because […]
Maliki gets the Boot
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Bad news for Max Boot: the new neoconservative line on Maliki is already getting kind of old.
There is some irony in the fact that Democrats, after years of deriding Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a hopeless bungler and conniving Shiite sectarian, are now treating as sacrosanct his suggestion that Iraq will be ready to […]
Oh, if wishing made it so
Sunday, July 20th, 2008“We’re fucked.”
-An anonymous but prominent Republican strategist speaking about the whole Maliki can of worms.
Re-invasion becomes just regular invasion again
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Following up on my earlier post on McCain’s response to the whole Maliki thing, it looks like the campaign’s new official statement backs down from assertions that I guess they realized made them same practically homicidal.
Unfortunately for them, it looks like a hostile force invaded their press release and destroyed anything resembling coherency or honesty.
Invasion becomes re-invasion
Saturday, July 19th, 2008My ex-boss, unsurprisingly, has what I think is the smartest take on this whole “Maliki endorses Obama’s plan” thing. But since this is less a blog for that sort of policy analysis and more a blog for looking at the crazy shit people will say to the American public with a straight face, I want […]
The Republican Iraq strategy broke my brain
Friday, July 18th, 2008What the hell happened today? Up is down, black is white, McCain is scrabbling to appropriate and repurpose bits and pieces of Obama’s foreign policy. In other words, McCain wants to withdraw forces from Iraq and put them in Afghanistan.
But the two candidates still have totally different positions! See, Obama wants to retreat, based on […]
Deficit Reduction: Winning the Lottery versus Winning the War
Monday, July 7th, 2008Since John McCain doesn’t know dick about either the economy or the Iraq War, but is better at faking knowledge of the latter, it makes sense that he would try to change the subject from one to the other at every available opportunity. But reducing the deficit by winning the war? Seriously?
It would actually make […]
Jeff Goldberg needs some new material
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Seriously, this whole “implying my political opponents are terrorist sympathizers” thing is getting way old. He just pulled the same old trick in his latest post, except with Saddam Hussein instead of Hezbollah.
A small indication of the political leanings of some Aspen attendees: At a session with Jim Wallis, Michael Cromartie and our very own […]
Your lips say, “No,” but your eyes say, “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb Iran”
Friday, June 6th, 2008Oh, war. I wish I knew how to quit you.
See, if John McCain was your college roommate, then that commercial would be about how his ex-girlfriend is such a bitch and he hates her yet as soon as they bump into each other at some club and get a few drinks in them, you come […]
Echoing liberal talking points
Sunday, June 1st, 2008You know, if I were a Republican shill right now, I would not want to continually point out how much mounting evidence vindicates what liberals have been saying for years. I guess there’s something to the idea that you can refute any argument by calling it “liberal talking points” and some people will reflexively respond […]
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