Good Thursday morning Fellow Seekers,
The mainstream accounts of the failure of Sen. Jim Webb’s amendment all emphasize that it fell four votes short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. But if the goal is really to change administration policy in Iraq, this threshold is greatly overrated, because President Bush would have vetoed the […]

Writing during the first break in the hearing.
I’m trying to listen with an open mind to Petraeus and Crocker. It’s hard, probably impossible, when the main substance of their presentations have been known in advance, and have been debunked in advance by critics who have become more and more sure-footed by years of experience and […]