Where have all these war skeptics on CNN right now been for the last eight years?
Mary Matalin exemplifies the Republican conundrum. Just now on CNN she complained that the speech was just more of the Bush Doctrine, as if that were a bad thing from her perspective:
The Republican talking point this evening in reaction to the speech is that if Obama is really, truly, unconditionally committed (no fingers crossed behind his back) to the Afghanistan effort, he wouldn’t set an “artificial” deadline for withdrawing troops.
This was, of course, a Republican mantra throughout Bush’s second term in resisting Democratic efforts to end the Iraq War. But what they don’t seem to remember is that even Bush himself came around by mid-2008 to setting a timeline for withdrawal.
TPM is hearing that Joe Biden and Gen. David Petraeus will run point for the Administration on Wednesday’s morning shows.
Video of the entire Obama speech on Afghanistan.
Dismayed by Democrats’ failure to conduct meaningful “oversight,” congressional Republicans have taken it upon themselves to hold their own hearings on pressing issues like … ACORN. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Speaking at the National Press Club a short time ago, OMB director Peter Orszag declined to comment on the negotiations over a public option but suggested everything remains on the table.
Colbert: “Obama is acting like some kind of chief who is commander of the armed forces!” Watch.
Which is worse: Chris Matthews’ insistence on pronouncing Cheney as “Cheeny” or comparing the former veep to the “troll” in Three Billy Goats Gruff? You be the judge.