A piece by Tom Lasseter for McClatchy Newspapers offers a pretty grim view of the current state of, and likely outcome in, Iraq. Yes, Mr. Mehlman, "adapt to win" indeed.

From ++M.J. AKBAR:

Bush and Blair are good at winning a war on the ground. They are experts at losing the battle for the mind. Their firepower is impressive. Their persuasive power is abysmal. There is no mystery in this. No one really believes what they say, because they have made a habit of shifting the truth to define their objectives, or shifting the objective when facts have changed....Bush and Blair perhaps believe that they can survive on the strength of media headlines. Today's headlines are so often tomorrow's boomerangs. Bush and Blair have lost the plot.

++Editor-in-chief of The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle newspapers.

From ++Bill Gallagher:

Polls show most Americans still believe George W. Bush keeps them safe from terrorists. Fifty percent of the American people continue to believe Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction. With a crew like that, it is no wonder Bush is still captain of our national ship of fools.

++Gallagher is a Peabody Award winning former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News

At last month's "Aspen Ideas Festival," there was a panel on "Conservatism in America" which discussed the state of that political concept today, which necessarily required some description of where those ideas came from, and how the advocates of those ideas came to power.

My least favorite arachnid-American, the one and only Ken Mehlman, seems to have changed course.  Remember all those millions of repetitions of the mantra "stay the course, not cut and run?"  Down the tubes, off the table, in the can, down the toilet, gone like the smile from a salesman's face when you say no.

New mantra?  "Adapt-to-win."  Which also describes where the mantra came from.

Shazam! A whole week now, and the GOP is still fuming over the Ned Lamont win over Joe "Dino" Lieberman..........

Journalism may be alive and well, but you wouldn't know it from this story. From the AP business beat:

Experts: Better care prevents oil leaks

We have a president who has trouble speaking in full, grammatical sentences, and a vice-president who has one of the strangest speaking patterns I've ever heard.  Here's the Vice-prez on Joe Lieberman's primary defeat (emphasis added):

Why strangely, you ask?  Because Bush is the one who raised the question himself, noting in his radio speech today that some had recently suggested that very thing.  But then he didn't deny it, unless I'm really missing something.

Now what do you suppose would make a Republican Congresswoman suddenly join "the growing chorus of those who believe Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be out of a job?"

Couldn't be the new phenomenon known as the Joe Lieberman effect, could it?

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