The GOP in the Senate and Bush have made a smart tactical decision to put the Dems in the hot seat regarding funding the troops and their liberal foolishness. The house has passed and the Senate will (barely) pass funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The problem is they have also added useless […]

One more note on the circus the Democrats are putting on regarding the funding of the war. In Congress a funding bill is different from legislation regarding laws. Laws are binding, once passed, until revoked with a new round of legislation. Funding bills are only good for the fiscal year and can be overwritten with […]

And it is rising up against al Qaeda. One story here and another here. Which side will win? Well, in Iraq it seems the majority are against al Qaeda and for the US hanging around until things stabilize somewhat. That would indicate that now, and only for now, we have moved from a stalemate to […]

I have one gripe with some who see the arrangements with Isamic fundamentalists in Waziristan, Pakistan as bad policy. And that gripe is where can the Taleban live if they move away from fascism? The deals made by Musharraf with tribesmen of the area have been reasonable on their face. The off is to allow […]

Alan Colmes was berating Laura Ingrahm last night on Hannity & Colmes because she was talking about Iran’s history of hostage taking as a form of international diplomacy. [note: this is the first time I have caught the show since last fall]. Colmes was naively saying Iran had ‘moderated’ its rhetoric and Ingrahm, and those […]

Democrat Senator Mark Pryor is grossly naive: The Arkansas Democrat is a key holdout on his party’s proposal to approve $122 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while setting a goal of March 31, 2008, for winding up military operations in Iraq. Unlike the plan’s Republican opponents, Pryor wants a withdrawal deadline of […]

The balanced approach of trough laws, strengthening the boarders, immigrant background checks, paying back dues, etc is coming to Congress. (link 1, link 2)Is it perfect? Hell no – no Bill would be. But it has enough of my minimal list to know it will get passed. When the hard right bottled up comprehensive immigration […]

It seems the Iranian kidnapping of British Sailors and Marines is supposed to be a response to the fact we have captured a lot of high level Quds personnel in Iraq, and it seems there may be a sea of defectors to boot. First I noticed this story based on high level sources in Iran […]

It looks like the Iraqi focus as part of the surge plan is paying huge dividends (which is why you will never see this news in the cowering, liberal US media – but you can find it in the UK media): Iraqi Police apprehended a suicide truck bomber and captured his vehicle, containing a large […]

The Plame witch hunt by Fitzgerald has ended open discussion of issues on the Hill and in public. Clearly,when someone can face 20+ years in prison for misremembering or mistating irrelevant and marginal facts (i.e., there is no legal issue to HOW Libby learned of Plame’s situation, just whether he illegally discussed it with the […]