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I’m afraid I’m going to get cranky about this: The Democrats who oppose the so-called “surge” are right. But they have to be careful not to sound like ill-informed dilettantes when talking about it.
The latest to make a fool of himself is Paul Krugman of the New York Times, who argues that those who favor the increase in troops are …

The Washington Post this morning tells us that the House Democrats are already getting thrown off step. Where they had hoped to dominate the week’s news by passing their six-point First Hundred Hours agenda, they now are rebuilding the schedule around Iraq. That’s not necessarily bad news for them, however. Many Democrats have had some …

While I still believe that McCain’s “surge” pandering needs some work, apparently he’s practicing:

* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.

* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said

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Please don’t take my mocking of Biden’s permanent announcement mode as dismissive of the man himself. He’s the rare Washington politician who knows his own strengths and weaknesses, and yet doesn’t spend his life avoiding the latter. Obviously.

As for the “river of words,” I look forward to the debate that features both Biden and Al …

There were two things that surprised me about the AEI forum on Friday on the Iraq “surge” and attendant MoveOn.org demonstration against it. First, there was singing. Outside. Among the protesters. A group of about six youngish people in rain ponchos were singing something that sounded a little like a hymn or chants in the style of …

On Fox News Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offers up a talking point we sure didn’t hear during the election. If the Republicans were still running things, he suggests, nothing important would get done in Washington over the next two years. So apparently it’s a GOOD thing to have Democrats in charge on Capitol Hill.

This …

I remember taking the train to Wilmington to interview Joe Biden during a Senate recess in the mid-1990’s. Most of what I knew about him at the time I’d gleaned from Richard Ben Cramer’s outstanding book about the 1988 presidential campaign and the men who waged it, What It Takes. For those who haven’t read it and don’t know, Biden …

Even Brent Scowcroft, who was right all along. He tells Stephanopoulos that he might favor more troops in Iraq to stop ethnic cleansing in Baghdad…then says he thinks it’s a bad idea for American troops to try to police a civil war–which means that he’s for and against the same thing. When Stephanopoulos catches him on this, Scowcroft …

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MSNBC Breaking News

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Sen. Joe Biden says on ‘Meet the Press’ that he’ll run for president in ’08

“Breaking” is when Joe Biden announces he’s not running for president. (For those keeping track, this is news only

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