Oh, what fun we'll have
If this is a portent of what we look forward to when the party of God comes to New York this summer, then it should be interesting
It appears that Bremer is committed to power transfer in Iraq by June, so that there won't be a power transfer in the U.S. come November.
Ah, that Paul Bremer. He's been winging it from day one, with predictable results.
I had heard about the high rates of suicide among the troops in Iraq, but it may be worse than was previously thought, according to a report from the Washington Post.
"According to William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, who discussed the suicides in a briefing last month, that represents a rate of more than 13.5 per 100,000 troops, about 20 percent higher than the recent Army average of 10.5 to 11. The Pentagon plans to release the findings of a team sent to Iraq last fall to investigate the mental health of the troops, including suicides.
"The number Winkenwerder cited does not include cases under investigation, so the actual number may be higher. It also excludes the suicides by soldiers who have returned to the United States. For instance, two soldiers undergoing mental health treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington reportedly committed suicide there, in July 2003 and last month. In its weekly report on the treatment of returning battlefield soldiers, the hospital never mentioned the deaths. An official at Walter Reed said the deaths are 'suspected' suicides and are being investigated by the Army's criminal division.
"Stephen L. Robinson, who visits the hospital regularly and is executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a nonprofit advocacy group for veterans and soldiers, said there was no public record of the deaths. 'They just covered it up,' he said."
Campaign Desk takes the blogosphere to task for deciding that they'd rather have Edwards in their club than Kerry.
"No doubt spurred on by commentary posted on Slate and The New Republic, the blogosphere today is in a tizzy over who's more electable: Kerry or Edwards?
"John Kerry didn't exactly go down on one knee in Wisconsin, but he did wince a little. And in the wonderful world of instant experts inside and outside the blogosphere in their bathrobes pounding feverishly away at the keyboard as dawn breaks, that's more than enough to start the pile-on."
The prevailing conventional wisdom of Slate's useful idiots and the bloggers in their bathrobes, furiously typing their posts as the rosy fingers of dawn appear on the horizon, is that Edwards' appeal to Republicans and Independents in Wisconsin "proves" that Edwards is more "electable" than Kerry.
Nonsense.
Wisconsin was an open primary, meaning that registered Republicans and Independents could vote in the Dem's primary. Kaus and Salaten are somehow certain that they will also vote for him in November. Trouble is, they won't. They'll vote for Bush, as John Harwood and Jacob M. Schlesinger point out in today's Journal.
"Exit polls from Wisconsin, meanwhile, showed a sharp disconnect between Mr. Edwards's populist message and the voters who responded to it. Benefiting from intensive personal campaigning and the endorsement of the state's largest newspaper, he dominated among voters who settled on their choice late.
"Yet that support came disproportionately from well-educated, affluent suburbanites whose sentiments are out of step with those of the 2004 Democratic mainstream. He did best among voters who said they were conservative, supported the Iraq war, are satisfied with Mr. Bush and want his tax cuts left in place. Mr. Kerry's six-percentage-point victory margin would have been larger if not for Mr. Edwards's 2-to-1 edge among self-described Republicans, who made up 9% of the Wisconsin electorate."
And let's keep our eyes on the prize, guys. Atrios notes that if Clinton had done this, there'd be calls for impeachment.
It appears that Bremer is committed to power transfer in Iraq by June, so that there won't be a power transfer in the U.S. come November.
Ah, that Paul Bremer. He's been winging it from day one, with predictable results.
I had heard about the high rates of suicide among the troops in Iraq, but it may be worse than was previously thought, according to a report from the Washington Post.
"According to William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, who discussed the suicides in a briefing last month, that represents a rate of more than 13.5 per 100,000 troops, about 20 percent higher than the recent Army average of 10.5 to 11. The Pentagon plans to release the findings of a team sent to Iraq last fall to investigate the mental health of the troops, including suicides.
"The number Winkenwerder cited does not include cases under investigation, so the actual number may be higher. It also excludes the suicides by soldiers who have returned to the United States. For instance, two soldiers undergoing mental health treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington reportedly committed suicide there, in July 2003 and last month. In its weekly report on the treatment of returning battlefield soldiers, the hospital never mentioned the deaths. An official at Walter Reed said the deaths are 'suspected' suicides and are being investigated by the Army's criminal division.
"Stephen L. Robinson, who visits the hospital regularly and is executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a nonprofit advocacy group for veterans and soldiers, said there was no public record of the deaths. 'They just covered it up,' he said."
Campaign Desk takes the blogosphere to task for deciding that they'd rather have Edwards in their club than Kerry.
"No doubt spurred on by commentary posted on Slate and The New Republic, the blogosphere today is in a tizzy over who's more electable: Kerry or Edwards?
"John Kerry didn't exactly go down on one knee in Wisconsin, but he did wince a little. And in the wonderful world of instant experts inside and outside the blogosphere in their bathrobes pounding feverishly away at the keyboard as dawn breaks, that's more than enough to start the pile-on."
The prevailing conventional wisdom of Slate's useful idiots and the bloggers in their bathrobes, furiously typing their posts as the rosy fingers of dawn appear on the horizon, is that Edwards' appeal to Republicans and Independents in Wisconsin "proves" that Edwards is more "electable" than Kerry.
Nonsense.
Wisconsin was an open primary, meaning that registered Republicans and Independents could vote in the Dem's primary. Kaus and Salaten are somehow certain that they will also vote for him in November. Trouble is, they won't. They'll vote for Bush, as John Harwood and Jacob M. Schlesinger point out in today's Journal.
"Exit polls from Wisconsin, meanwhile, showed a sharp disconnect between Mr. Edwards's populist message and the voters who responded to it. Benefiting from intensive personal campaigning and the endorsement of the state's largest newspaper, he dominated among voters who settled on their choice late.
"Yet that support came disproportionately from well-educated, affluent suburbanites whose sentiments are out of step with those of the 2004 Democratic mainstream. He did best among voters who said they were conservative, supported the Iraq war, are satisfied with Mr. Bush and want his tax cuts left in place. Mr. Kerry's six-percentage-point victory margin would have been larger if not for Mr. Edwards's 2-to-1 edge among self-described Republicans, who made up 9% of the Wisconsin electorate."
And let's keep our eyes on the prize, guys. Atrios notes that if Clinton had done this, there'd be calls for impeachment.
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