The Ryan And David Show

By Cernig

Via Memeorandum, some gems from the cabaret on the Hill today - next stop, Vegas!

The Crocker and Petraeus recomendation is that there be no new drawdowns of troops other than those already scheduled to happen by June - although at least Petraeus didn't recommend pausing them too. After that, it will be a 45 day "review" and then presumably back to the Hill for a last performance of the same show before Bush exits stage Right.

McCain still can't get his Shuittes and his Sinnis straight. (H/t to Shaun Mullen for that phrase, which I stole shamelessly)

Kevin Hayden notes that "NASDAQ dropped 11 points immediately after the adjournment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 40 points."

James Joyner has the moderate conservative take - no Kool Aid and no gleeful last corners, just "fragile and reversible" security progress framed by "insufficient Iraqi government capacity, lingering sectarian mistrust and corruption."

Sully noticed that the dynamic duo are " more circumspect about Iraq than some of their Republican interlocutors (Inhofe, predictably, is a parody of knee-jerkism and Lindsey Graham seems much more insistent on the surge's success than Petraeus)." Graham's been snorting the raw Kool-Aid powder again.

Matt Yglesias watches Lieberman graduate to killer whale jumping.

Oh, and the NYT's Opinionator blog says I'm "grumpy" - something my wife's been saying for years. I think I need more coffee.

Comments

[Libby Spencer]

Heh. Proud to be included in the same group as you C.

[BJ]

Perhaps a name change from, "The Newshoggers" to, "The Grumpy Liberals"? :)