It is that simple.
No need to white wash it or enter into some fantasy world rationalizations (as our GOP readers are so fond of doing when it comes to Bush’s daily hourly screw ups).
Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comment” :
You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions—Stop The War—have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you… for a handful of magic beans.
You may trot out every political cliché from the soft-soap, inside-the-beltway dictionary of boilerplate sound bites, about how this is the “beginning of the end” of Mr. Bush’s “carte blanche” in Iraq, about how this is a “first step.”
Well, Senator Reid, the only end at its beginning… is our collective hope that you and your colleagues would do what is right, what is essential, what you were each elected and re-elected to do.
Related: Joe Biden could take some lessons about being direct from Chris Dodd:
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