Dick Durbin was doing a fairly good job on ThisWeek against senile-when-he-wants-to-be Mitch McConnell, hammering on the point that the drawdown plan “leaked” by Gen. Casey this week happens to match in fairly precise detail the withdrawal plans advocated by the better class of Senate Democrats this week. (Of course McConnell had nothing to hammer on but “Our brilliant president’s brilliant strategy must be the right one because we haven’t been hit again since Sept. 11.” Is this not a wearing a little thin as the number of Americans lost since 9-11, 2600+ and rising at 3 or so a day, is rapidly approaching the number lost on 9-11? Somehow I fail to see the logic here.)

But then George S. ran a clip of Joe Loserman doing his best give-Bush-cover tapdance during the resolution debate and asked Durbin about the CT primary, and directly asks “Will you support the winner of the Democratic primary?” And Durbin says “I support Joe Lieberman.”

Schmuck. Three questions later he says “…in the Democratic primary, which I expect him to win, blah blah blah.” And then made it clear that he was not answering anything past that. Fucking idiot. All he would have had to do was turn it around, a flat “Yes of course I will support the winner of the Democratic Primary which I fully expect will be Joe Lieberman” and accomplish the same thing without looking like a stupid schmuck. Consider yourself slapped upside the head, Dick.

Because that’s exactly what Crook McConnell did when George S. asked him an identical question about the Rhode Island primary where Lincoln Chafee, one of the last of the honorable Republicans at least insofar as he has consistently been anti-Iraq War, has a rabid pro-war primary challenger. McConnell even managed to spin Chafee’s anti-war stance as “principled consistency”. We must start using that expression “IOKIYAR” more often again.

Round Table was interesting, George Will actually missed a week of pompous pontification but to keep the quota up they got Actually Sane On Most Things But A Deranged Lunatic On Immigration Lou Dobbs. He tangled with Fareed Zakaria on the “amnesty” thing but amazingly enough managed to keep the mouth-frothing about the Invasion of the Brown People to a minimum. Still the worst possible problem we face, and all, because every brown person brings with them 427 pounds (each) of meth, cocaine, heroin AND pot, and some beheaded corpses managed to sneak in as well, but I guess everybody has to have a gig, and that’s the gig of Mr. Obbs.

The Iraqi Amnesty thing is going to blow up high, wide and horrible this week, is my guess. People are going to find out that no matter what tonnage of lipstick is put on, the pig consists of letting walk free the guys who have been shooting, blowing up and beheading our kids.

Look for the name of Robert E. Lee to be invoked heavily, and the number “600,000” [approx. deaths in the US Civil War], and if required to speak on the subject emphasize that this is what Bush wanted after all. This is the Iraqi “government” standing up like he said they should. And note that every American servicemember who dies from this day forth will do so knowing that absolutely nothing whatever will be done to the person who killed him, beyond a possible short detention followed by a release in the name of “reconciliation.”

Great job there Mr. Bush. Great job indeed.