Iraq 2.0

Bush sure does have good speechifiers (warning: movie file). Clinton and FDR would have been proud. If either one of them had given it, DeLay and Frist and Hastert and Gingrich and Hannity and O'Reilly and Rush wouldn't have been able to contain their disgust. Locally, Jonnie Caldara will have a conniption. Douglas Bruce has the dry heaves, and he's preparing briefs now to decertify the Constitution.

All their butt-licking-Bush-worshiping circuits must be in an

"Error S814-04 Unable to tabulate"

loop right now.

The era of the "small government", "fiscally conservative", "responsible Republican" lie machine is now over. How will they deal with the disconnect?

The speech.

The response.

The stupidest line: "We will stay as long as it takes." - actually, I thought he said "only" in there somewhere. Have to check the tapes. But that's the Iraq 2.0 statement. Maybe he did learn something from the catastrophic successes in Iraq. That would be a pleasant surprise.

And I hope he follows through. I hope the ideas work. That'll be the biggest surprise.

Then maybe he can apply some of the best ideas to Iraq. The ones they rejected in Iraq 1.0.