Funny, I seem to recall a lot of Democrats supporting his appointment.  Which I guess was just so that they could cut off his funding, deny the truth of his accounts about who we’re fighting in Iraq, and in essence, paint the military as part of the great neocon conspiracy to keep us fighting in Iraq on behalf of Halliburton and the monied Jews. Petraeus?  An administration automaton—a political mouthpiece

Remember.  She’s third in line for the Presidency—and she already considers herself part of a shadow State Department, though she’s far too desirous of publicity to actually, you know, remain in the shadows. Okay, then, Madame Speaker. You want some publicity?  Revel in this: The second most popular politician in Syria these days may be an American: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The California Democrat warmed Syrian hearts with her trip

From the New Republic’sLawrence Kaplan, “The Knowledge Gap”: Maybe it was a slip of the tongue. But, when Nancy Pelosi confessed last year that she felt “sad” about President Bush’s claims that Al Qaeda operates in Iraq, she seemed to be disputing what every American soldier in Iraq, every Al Qaeda operative, and anyone who reads a newspaper already knew to be true. (When I questioned him about Pelosi’s assertion,