What Chris said, after listening to Lee Hamilton on MTP:

What was stunning about this morning’s Meet the Press is how arrogant Lee Hamilton was in one of his comments in which he expressed shocking disdain for elections and the American people. The last thing we should do, he said, is to consider making foreign policy decisions based on domestic American politics. The fetishization of bipartisan elites, and the shoddy and dishonorable work these elites put out on a consistent basis, is a terrifying prospect for our ability to self-govern. The Iraq War largely happened because the foreign policy establishment and the political elites were too scared and arrogant to consider that a robust public debate about a sound course of action could serve us well. In fact they pursued a largely secretive agenda in which think tank and Op-Ed credentials largely signified that one could operate safely as a courtier and wouldn’t buck a pro-war consensus. It was simply culturally correct to go to war and arrogate immense power to George Bush.

“Shoddy and dishonorable”? Aw, come on, Chris! Say what you really feel!

The Iraq Studly Group is the exact same ruling class cabal that got us into this mess, and they listen just as well and suck just as “seriously” now as they did then.