Sunday Morning Comin’ Down – Part 2 of 2.

Back to the Meet the Press:

There is a strong implication from Bush insiders that politics played a huge part in shaping strategy. That Bush wanted to be able to say “We’re Winning!” for the 2006 elections, so no one wanted to put anything in front of him that said otherwise.

Hadley: “The Iraqi Army didn’t fragment.”

driftglass: What “Iraqi Army”?

After Hadley got the hook, Senators Dodd, Leiberman, Kyl and Hagel.

Chris Dodd came out. Talking sense.

Then Lieberman had to open his pie hole and re-stink up the joint.

Joementum: This is a New Plan, bitches. All other plans are failures, because they’re about Withdrawal. Then the Bad People would follow us back here. Give it a chance, babies!

Joementum warns

against Joemageddon!

Joementum: If Democrats cut Dubya off from his hooch, then they’ll be responsible if he goes violently DT and start starts shooting up the halls of congress!

It would bring the end of all things, sez Pooka Joe. The ruin of the world. The collapse of Iraq.

Cats and dogs, living together!

Hagel: Let’s be clear; no one in Congress – or anywhere – wants a collapse in Iraq. That is not the question. The question is, is an escalation of our military involvement the answer? No, it isn’t.

That Dubya has chosen to wipe his ass with the Baker/Hamilton Report is tragic. The idea that we’re going to solve the problems of the Middle East by shoving more kids into the fire and killing more people is batshit.

Dubya has no support from the American people. Our allies don’t support this. Our “friends” in the region are silent.

Hagel: The people who are so fucking dead-solid-sure that this plan will work out great are the same cockstains who were dead-solid-sure four years ago that everything was going to work out great. Why the fuck is anyone still listening to them?

Projecting ourselves further and deeper into a situation we cannot win. This is a war of attrition, and we cannot win a war of attrition.

Kyl: We needed a new strategy. The Preznit went to the mountain-top and came back with this Fucking Brilliant Plan. The only other strategies are strategies for Failure.

Dodd: Every single officer I talked to last week in Iraq – every other one – said this escalation is insane. We have jobs the need to be done in Iraq that we cannot do. I talked to a sergeant last week that said that his job is to send young Americans down streets to get shot at. No other reason.

Dodd: The false assumption is that more troops = more security.

Joementum is such a dangerous, disingenuous ass. God smite the cockheaded morons in Connecticut. The only upside is that I never have to form my mouth to say “Democrat, Joe Lieberman” again in my life.

Joementum: There are only two exit strategies. Victory or Defeat. The Preznit offered an option for Victory.

Joementum: On 9/11 we were attacked by the same people we are fighting in Iraq.

Hagel slaps Joementum lying ears back hard enough to make his fat head hum.

Here’s the Zapruder…



Tim: If this doesn’t work – if in a few months this doesn’t work – then don’t we have to get out.

Kyl: The only alternative I have heard – this “diplomatic” crap – that isn’t specific. And there’s a lot of al Qaeda in Iraq. It is not possible to get a peace statement (?) with al Qaeda.

Dodd: I cannot believe we squandered. I cannot believe where we were on 9/12/01 and where we are today.




On This Week…Stephen Hadley shows up here, followed by John Murtha.

Murtha talks straight and clear.

It’s weird listening to people like Murtha, and then the fawning toadies of the Boy King.

Like listening to humans and methane-breathers each describing a bag of ammonia.

It’s Poison.

No, it’s yummy!

Murtha: We’re giving the troops exactly what they need. We should not send troops in until they’ve finished their training cycle. We have no strategic reserve. I’m the one that uncovered the scandal that our troops were being sent into combat with inadequate armor.


On Face the Nation I had no time…

No time…



On Chris Matthews: Dan Rather. Andrea Mitchell. Andrew Sullivan. Katty Kay.

Matthews: He seems like he’s alone. No grown ups around him.

Katty: Nixon delivering bad news looked confident. Bush looked like a changed man.

driftglass: Blown out and hollow.

Andrea Mitchell: There are no good options. He had to choose something he knew he couldn’t sell.

Sully: True conservatives do not want this war. They don’t want US kids policing an Iraqi civil war.

Katty: Sam Brownback coming out against the Preznit was amazing. A blow to the White House.

Rather: I can’t believe they were expecting it.

Sully: Maybe the Buchanan Conservative is coming back. The America First and the Christopaths.

Oh joy!

Sully: It is also possible that Dubya thinks this will fail. That the Malaki government will fall and then he can bail and blame.

Rather: Most Americans would take any attempt to attack Iraq as sheer madness. Of course that doesn’t mean Dubya won’t do it….

Matthews: That’s what scares me. We used to have something of a check on the Preznit. But now there is only in the room with toadies, and with generals who he fires if they tell him what he doesn’t want to hear.

Sully: Yeah, there is someone else in the room with him. Dick Cheney, who is telling him “Yes! Attack Iran!”

And then it becomes the Hillary Show.



On Sixty Minutes, the Boy King “strongly denies” that he was dishonest with the American people. And then stutters the English language to a standstill over his mouth trying to say that he is not a vengeful man, and his brain practically drooling over it.

Shorter Preznit: I have to keep ‘splainin to the Murrican people until they understand Iraq.

‘Cause they’re stoopid.

Finally, just for fun, let us snap on the hazmat gloves, unsheathe the poo-snippers, and unfairly flense a few sentences from Bobo’s


Friday NYT column and assemble them out of all context just to see what we can divine from them – like reading chickenhawk entrails -- about Iraq and who is about to be framed for the GOPs historic failure there.

See if you can spot the card Bobo is trying to palm...

If the Democrats don’t like the U.S. policy on Iraq over the next six months, they have themselves partly to blame.

…but the Democrats never came up with anything remotely serious.

…The liberals who favor quick exit never grappled with the consequences of that policy…

…The centrists who believe in gradual withdrawal never explained why that wouldn’t be like pulling a tooth slowly.

Joe Biden, who has the most intellectually serious framework for dealing with Iraq, was busy yesterday, at the crucial decision-making moment, conducting preliminary fact-finding hearings, complete with forays into Iraqi history.

The Democrats…but when it comes to alternative proposals, a common approach is social Darwinism on stilts…

So we are stuck with the Bush proposal as the only serious plan on offer. The question is, what exactly did President Bush propose last night?
…

Funny, Bobo is usually a little more deft in hiding the razor in the apple.

But then again, when attempting to spackle over such an enormous mound of shit with such a weak and watery thimble of third-rate prose, one has to deal with the fact that entire limbs of feces are going to stick out all over.

And now, standing at a safe distance from the clatter and claptrap, we can see all the GOPixels resolve themselves into the Real NeoCon Way Forward.

1. Iraq is fucked and they all know it. “Victory” is not possible, however,

2. The loss of this war will mean the end of the GOP for a generation.

3. Therefore any plan that doesn’t claim to lead to “Victory” is to be rejected out-of-hand.

4. Furthermore, any plan that does not loudly call for impossible “Victory” it is to be dogmatically assaulted as unserious and terrorist-friendly.

5. And since all things in Heaven and Earth, no matter how vital or tragic or insane, are simply political variables in the Neocon Power Calculus, the Rove Playbook is still very much alive and well. So,

6. From the Mouse Circus to the NYT to 60 Minutes, the game of Pin the Blame on the Dirty Hippies now begins in deadly earnest.

And that’s how Sunday Came Down.

End Part 2 of 2.