Too good to refer to as a blogger
As one of the bloggers in the sidebar once said to me, 'I don't like to call Talking Points Memo a blog as it rather denigrates it to put it in the same category as X and Y' [insert blogs you dislike].Indeed it's true. Talking Points Memo is the best political blog out there. Indeed it's one of the best sources of political information out there.
I'll link to some good bits from today, but really read it all.
On liberals being blamed for the current mess:
"Let's be a little more clear about what's going on here. Having led the country perilously close to humiliation and defeat, the architects of the war want to shift the blame for what's happened to their opponents who either said the whole thing was a mistake in the first place or criticized the incompetence of its execution as it unfolded. They take the blame, the moral accountability, by 'wishing' for a bad result. That at least is [their] reasoning."
On Chalabi:
"Chalabi's dwindling number of Washington supporters have awkwardly claimed that his efforts to ally himself with Shia Islamist groups in Iraq is an evidence of their man's 'pragmatism', recognizing the political realities of the country and adjusting accordingly. This is an echo of their pre-invasion efforts to explain the copious funding Chalabi received from the government of Iran, which, in case you hadn't noticed, is not supposed to be a great friend of ours.
If you're looking for any entertainment, any silver lining to this mess, watch the faces of the hardest core Chalabistas and watch the less and less subtle ripples of chagrin on their faces as their man more and more publicly shows how much he played them for fools."
posted by Matthew @ 5/20/2004 07:35:00 PM
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