Ana, on the McCain bus (it’s hard to blog from your Treo), sends this in:
On the bus, McCain responded to John Boehner’s remark that American lives were a “small price” to pay for a victory in Iraq.
Asked about it on the heels of his demanding that Democratic candidates “repudiate” the MoveOn.org Petreaus/Betray Us ad, he grimaced:
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This is really good work by Matt Yglesias and Ilan Goldenberg, showing the march of ethnic cleansing–and the consequent diminution of violence–across the neighborhoods of Baghdad.
As Ana and others have been chronicling, John McCain has resurrected his campaign. He’s still struggling financially, but he’s stopped his slide in the polls and begun inching his way upward again. Building on a strong performance in the most recent GOP debate, McCain is riding his role as General Petraeus’ most ardent supporter straight …
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In which the performances of Petraeus and Crocker are evaluated .
A final note on all this. At the very end of the very last hearing, Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin asked General Petraeus for a clarification: When he returned to testify in–chuckle inserted here–six months, was he going to make recommendations about whether there …
are the subject of the cover story I wrote for this week’s dead-tree TIME:
Bill is far from the only spouse rewriting the rules of the road in presidential politics. Of the 2008 candidates — and particularly among those in the top tier — more than a few are married to outspoken, opinionated, professional women who are neither
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Which version of Bush on Iraq will we get tonight? Will it be the standard-issue President who always sees that wrecked country, and the U.S. mission there, in various stages of progress, and who dismisses those who see otherwise as naysayers? Or will he adopt the tone he used in January of this year, when he actually acknowledged that …
This from the Center for Responsive Politics:
September 13, 2007 | Assessed favorably this week by the war’s lead general, the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq appears to be causing a surge of another sort—and one that’s not positive for President Bush or the Republican Party. Since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, members of the
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• Retired general pronounces: “Up until this week, it was Rumsfeld’s war… Now, for better or worse, it’s Dave [Petraeus]’s war.” Maybe. But maybe Boehner wouldn’t consider casualties a “small price” if he — and others — realized it’s our war. Some of us more than others. [WP]
• Funny, this refers to representatives, not troops: …
is in the race for John-Not-Related-To-Mark’s Senate seat. And the Democrats couldn’t be happier.
Uhm, wow.
Is it just me, or does anyone else on the McCain “No Surrender” tour keep expecting McCain to also invoke “Grabthar’s Hammer“?
Reports from the Iowa leg of McCain’s pro-war pep rally are largely positive. The NYT’s Michael Cooper notes the simple fact that no one is asking the senator if he’s dropping out any time soon. A conservative …
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Various foolish literalists have taken this clip from Hardball yesterday as an indication that I “knew something” about a phone call that General Petraeus received from the White House. Obviously, it was just speculation on my part–although the General did charge back from the recess intent on getting a correction into the record as …
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If Bill Kristol can tout Vets for Freedom, I can tout Paul Reickhoff of Iraq-Afghanistan Veteranas of America, which has been doing splendid work on behalf of our returning troops. In this post, he suggests a fund where donations can be made to honor the memory of Omar Mora and Yance T. Gray.
