This story has erupted in the blogosphere: Saddam Hussein’s money paid for Democrat Congressmen McDermott, Bonior, and Thompson to visit Iraq back in October 2002. That’s when McDermott made his controversial remarks where he urged us to give Hussein the benefit of the doubt but to mistrust Bush because, to McDermott, Bush was willing to deliberately mislead Americans in order to justify war with Iraq.
I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked:
The Washington Post reported last Friday that General David Petraeus asserted that Iraqi leaders had failed to take advantage of the success of the surge in seeking political reconciliation. Only problem is that once you get beyond the first paragraph, you’ll see that Petraeus didn’t quite say what the WaPo claimed he did:
While conservatives have many legitimate disagreements about McCain, I think one thing most of us can agree on is that when it comes to pork spending, McCain – though not perfect – truly is a “maverick” even within his own party which, in spite of its rhetoric decrying the practice of budget-busting earmarks, sees many in the House and Senate happily partaking in the process. Of this, Robert Novak writes:
The NYT reports on the salivating going on in Dem circles over the possibility of having 60 seats in the Senate after this fall’s election:
