SmithAntics

Atrios:

Well, reading the tea leaves it's pretty clear what's going on. The Iraq Study Group which Democrats have decided is going to save them is going to recommend either sending in more troops (McCain/Lieberman position this morning) or beginning to bug out. Elite Consensus will tell us to double down one more time, send in another 30,000 troops or so, while condemning the Democrats as defeatists. There won't be enough Democrat support to use what little levers of power they have (not many) to force the administration's hand. So more American soldiers will have their lives disrupted and families torn apart, more of them will die, more Iraqis will die, so that soulless Joe "no one wants out of Iraq more than I do" Lieberman can prop up his feeling of self-importance.

God I hate these people.

Let there be no doubt that Lieberman and McCain enjoy deity status among the elite opinion-makers and a decisive chunk of the American electorate — millions of “moderate Democrats” very much included. These twisted senile fucks are two of the most ardent supporters of the greatest American foreign policy clusterfuck since Vietnam — a disaster that was supposedly repudiated in the recent elections. Incredibly, this insanity does not register with great swaths of imbeciles whose political opinions are formed by Tim Russert and Thomas Friedman and --if they're bloggy cool--Andrew Sullivan. These dangerously uninformed people believe in a media-generated fantasy McCain and Lieberman.

BushCo violently shit the bed, and Saint McCain and Holy Joe say the defecation should continue and in greater volume. And America sees them as the adults.

Stunning.