Quick Response Time

I don't recall EVER seeing the two sides in Washington line up with their "quick response" teams as fast as they are in the Iraq War argument.  It's going back and forth at a furious pace.  The blogs will help you keep up. 

Pentagon starts trying to swift boat Cong. Murtha

Well, that didn't take long. Anonymous sources (read: cowards) at the Pentagon are already telling CNN that Murtha, a 37-year Marine, is being "irresponsible" by alerting folks to the fact that our military is "suffering" from the strain of fighting this many wars for four years now. One particularly absurd quote, a senior military official (read: Rummy) says that Murtha is wrong when he says [...]

Democratic Voters Not in Love With Their Pols: Will Vote for Them Anyway

A brilliant post by Chris Bowers cuts through the confusion to explain why Dem approval numbers are not higher and how that doesn't detract from the fact that Dems are in great shape for 2006. In a nutshell: [...]

House Republicans Are Committed To Victory
Earlier today, Senior Democrat Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. This provoked responses from a number of Republicans, some of which I have posted in the extended entry [...]

An escalation of rhetoric

CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith, describing the new White House, particularly after Dick Cheney's attack, said, "The White House basically called the Democrats liars." Actually, it's probably safe to remove the word "basically." Consider the latest from the WH Communication office. Nicolle Wallace, the White House communications director, says challenging Democrats is essential. "Our strategy [...]

REVOLT: Critical Spending Bill Goes Down In The House
In a dramatic rebuke of conservative leadership, the House has defeated the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill for Fiscal Year 2006. This year’s bill, which contains one-third of all domestic spending, calls for deep cuts in critical government programs. [...]

Forging on Despite Better Intel

The Christian Science Monitor has a detailed report on the chain of events that led to the CIA leak investigation. "From Yellowcake to Plamegate" says it didn't take the CIA long to determine the forged documents behind President Bush's infamous "16 words" were fake: [...]