The correct response is to point out the insanity of the Administration's created double bind. By rejecting the Iraq Study Group's exit strategy, Bush turns this into a lose-lose situation. I actually wonder if this is Bush's exit strategy - force Congress to cut him off, then disavow any responsibility for the inevitable chaos. What is the correct response to an impossible situation?

• Confront it's creator
• Do nothing

This ball's in his court...

McCain still scares me. I have P.T.S.D. from 2000 when I thought W. was tanking. I couldn't believe that he would be elected [which he wasn't]. But never underestimate the Bible thumpers.

Maybe we coulds hire Karl Rove. He took McCain out in a heartbeat last time...

Fine thinking!

What I don't like about Hillary is that she's too political. She measures what she does based on how she think it might effect her chances of being President. That's the character flaw that bothers me. It's true that of all people who voted for that war, she was in the position to know what Bush was up to. Bill Clinton knew. I don't hold that against her. She's actually done a good job of being her own person.

But "neutralizing" or "defusing" her vote for the Iraq War is Rove-Think. I'd rather see her say, "I made a mistake. I'm sorry." and leave it at that. Lord knows, we need people who can admit to being wrong. It's a virtue. If she wants to lead the fight to keep Bush from doing it again in Iran, more power to her. What I'm afraid of is that she won't do that either, for the same reason...

I expect most of us understand why people followed Bush and Cheney back then. September 11th worked. It made us all insane. Who knew that our Administration was going to use how we felt after 911 to send us off on a war of conquest for oil? I feel good now about opposing this war from the start. But back then, I felt confused, like some kind of a traitor. I had no conviction that I was right. Maybe I was just an old liberal reflexly opposing a conservative. I didn't know. I kept stickers off of my car [well maybe one little flag on the bumper].

It was a National Failure, the Iraq War. What we now know is that the real National Failure was to elect George W. Bush and Richard Cheney to the White House in the first place. Hillary sure didn't do that! If she's a Presidential possibility, she needs to show us that she has the integrity to do the job. It's not about what she has done in the past, it's about what she can do in the future.

We've had enough of "last name" Presidents...

While I agree that people really let Ned down, it also seemed to me like he sort of disappeared after the primary for a while. People said he'd been ill-advised by the Party and was campaigning in a different way. I presumed that was right, though I would have no way of knowing. All of a sudden, it was all Lieberman, and his faithful bloggers like Jane, but not much from Ned. Now, things have picked up, but a lot of momentum was dissipated in those months. I guess "blame" is immaterial at this point, but what happened in those sort of "lost months?"

Lets hope some of that joy rolls down to Georgia - a Republican stronghold. We do have an exciting choice for Lt. Governor, Democrat Jim Martin - a lifelong public servant with plenty of experience, a record of pristine honesty, and a campaign staff that's working around the clock. On the down side, he's an Atlantan running as a Democrat statewide - a formidable uphill endeavor.