After days of intense and emotional debate, the House, as expected, has passed a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to deploy more than 21,000 additional troops to Iraq. The final tally was 246-182. However, only 17 Republicans broke ranks with the President to support the Democratic resolution. (Two Democrats sided with the Republicans.) The [...]

Lots of bloggers are having fun this morning with GOP Rep. Don Young using this made-up quote from Abraham Lincoln to attack those on the other side who are opposing the surge in Iraq: Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled [...]

Broder thinks Bush is about to have a renaissance. And yes, the President did have a pretty good press conference the other day. But he’s having a historically disastrous war. And he had a disgraceful Katrina. And… Pre-emptive Update: Before the commentariat weighs in with ‘Hey, didn’t you defend Broder last week?’ and ‘Aren’t you [...]

In which the author gives advice about how to build a grass roots movement.

A lot of commentary in the blogosphere today, especially from Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein about whether “all options” should be “on the table” in dealing with Iran. I was (correctly) hammered last year when I said on Stephanopoulos that “all options–including nukes–should be on the table” in our dealings with Iran. This was a [...]

I think David Brooks is very astute in his column today, which lurks behind the Times firewall, about Hillary Clinton’s honorable evolution on the war. I don’t think she has anything to apologize for–but I disagree with Brooks: sooner or later, she’s going to have to admit that her vote to authorize the war was, [...]

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and no friend of the mullahs, has this to say about the foolishness of going to war with Iran.

More from Fox’s “Half Hour News Hour,” this clip attempts to derive laughs from the idea of “President Rush and Vice President Ann Coulter.” I’ll grant there is much humor to be wrested from that hypothetical (and horrifying) scenario, most of the jokes probably having to do with making Oxycotin available over-the-counter and installing federally-funded [...]

You may have heard that Fox News has hired “24″ producer Joel Surnow to create what everyone kind of has to call “a conservative Daily Show.” As anyone who has dabbled in comedy can tell you, starting out with a political objective or message is pretty much death for the funny. What makes something like [...]