He’s now headed to the Congressional Ball :)

Thanks again and regards,

You should try to catch it again later tonight or record it and watch it later. My sense is that he and the President are on the same page on this. Bush isn’t going to back down. He never does. The only time he considers a change in policy is when he’s already been beaten. Dubai Ports, Homeland Security Dept., 9-11 Commission. Bush will only pull out if we’ve already lost. And barring MAJOR disasterous developements we’re a couple of years away from that being clear. We’ll stay at least to the end of his term.

I hope you are right; This is another time I’d be happy to be wrong.

They actually want the ‘support for the troops’ both ways, to be against the war, to please the Left and to be ‘for the troops’ to please the rest of us.

but if the cut & runners in Congress get enough votes (and it will be close) they can refuse to pay for it.

Does anyone think the Dems want that hanging around their neck for the next 20 years? They already have a weak defense reputation. Are they going to want the aftermath of American withdrawal in Iraq as solely their responsibility? Forcing the American President to surrender a war? Not a viable strategy for elections anytime soon. The GWOT is a generational conflict. If they did that they’d be booted to the electoral wilderness for 15 years.

He’s the only person who can order us out.

Yeah, You are right as far as that goes; but if the cut & runners in Congress get enough votes (and it will be close) they can refuse to pay for it.

We’re not staying much longer anyway…

Yeah, just two more years. Allah where do you get the idea that Bush is going to pull out? It’s amazing to me that people think Bush is just gonna give up because the Dems took Congress. It wasn’t but last week in Amman he said we weren’t headed for some kind of “graceful exit” and that we’d be there till the job was done. He’s the only person who can order us out. Baker, DNC, MSM, public opinion, none of it matters. He’s the Commander in Chief, he isn’t running again, neither is Cheney, and Iraq is the centerpiece of his strategy in the WOT. What on earth is going to compel him to withdraw outside of the Iraqis asking us to leave?

I don’t get “Honie”? My father called me “Honey”, a derivative of Honora. Don’t get Honie though. (Probably some very obvious play on words which I am not getting..) — honora

…it’s a diminutive of “honora”….

Constantine is “Connie”. See a pattern?

It was capitalized this time, instead of lower case (as you spell it) because I didn’t notice and I fell back on standard English capitalization.

…for the record, I don’t call women “honey”…I don’t call under-age girls “honey” either…not even my daughter.

I also don’t use “darlin’”, “sister”, “babe”, “girl”, “baby-girl”, “lady”, or “b*tch”. Never have.

I do sometimes refer to men as “bubba”. They’re welcome to take a swing at me if they don’t like it. Pretty hard to connect, even over a broadband connection, but they’re welcome to try.

It’s a diminutive. It’s not meant as a diminishment, as when you call someone by their first name while convention requires that they refer to you as “Mr. So-and-so” or “Ms. Doohickey”. That’s demeaning.

Using a diminutive is a comradely way of coming out from behind the barriers plaintext throws up, adding a bit of personalization.

It’s used and is meant to be taken as if you were here, being to personally, wryly, joshingly. Sort of like peering through the fog of distance and bandwidth to see the person.

You’re invited to take it as its meant.

…you’re gonna have to take them blinders off, Honie.

I don’t get “Honie”? My father called me “Honey”, a derivative of Honora. Don’t get Honie though. (Probably some very obvious play on words which I am not getting..)

Rumsfeld…. — Rosetta

Snowball in hell has a much better chance. — honora

…you’re gonna have to take them blinders off, Honie.

I don’t think that Rummy’d make a good ambassador to anything or anywhere, but that’s an opinion grown from an assessment made of his character. He’s a bit of a “my way or the highway” sort of guy, and a bit too brash. When in Byzantium, do as the Byzantines do…be byzantine…that’s what we need. A schemer.

Hey! George Mitchell! For UN Ambassador *AND* to replace Khalilzad…and to replace Crocker, too!

Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell…everybody gets a piece of Mitchell!

How about Schumer…he’s a sneaker, poisonous little sh*t…and, he’s the party of choice for this administration lately…or knock the mothballs outta Armitage’s ears. Once again, byzantine….

I have well-placed sources within the administration and they have said that Rumsfeld is on the short-list for U.N. ambassador.

Actually I don’t have sources and I made that up but I would love to see what would happen if Bush nominated Rumsfeld for the job.

I predict heads would pop off and people would spontaneously combust.

Rosetta on December 4, 2006 at 2:55 PM

Snowball in hell has a much better chance.

As expected, there’s lots of talk in blogosphere today about who should replace Bolton at the UN or who’s rumored to be on the short list. Drudge put Mitchell’s name out there again and Allah notes that the departing U.S…….

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, plans to leave his post and will be replaced by Ryan Crocker, the current ambassador to Pakistan, according to two officials familiar with the matter…

The United Nations ambassadorship being vacated by…

Drudge is putting George Mitchell’s name out there as topping the short list.
So, I guess we’re bypassing squishy Republicans and going straight to Democrats?
George Mitchell: Democratic Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995, started his career in….

Today, we have a parting reminder of the impact of the obstructionist Senate minority (and a couple nominal members of the majority) doggedly refusing to vote on duly nominated candidates, as the sufficiently bi-partisanly supported Ambassador John Bol…

Actually I don’t have sources and I made that up but I would love to see what would happen if Bush nominated Rumsfeld for the job.

I predict heads would pop off and people would spontaneously combust.