Month: September 2007

This is not exactly the question most Democrats are asking: So, can any Republican not named Chuck Hagel win a Senate seat in Nebraska? Amazingly: The answer has been no for 35 years. Hagel’s decision not to seek re-election...

It looks like the Oregon senate race is going to have an independent challenger. What’s going on politically out west?

The die is cast with respect to Iraq and the surge. There will be no substantive change until April of 2008, when the 15 month deployment of the “surge” force of 30,000 comes to an end. General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker,...

The Jigsaw to Armageddon Yeah, folks, you can bet the ranch: we’re going in.  I’ve heard all the arguments from the nay sayers, so let that go.  We’re going in. This is déjà vu time, for...

I woke up this morning feeling like a kid at Christmas.  This is, after all, the day that General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker bring their much anticipated Surge Strategy Medicine Show to Capital Hill....