Like so many Republican officeholders who attained their office primarily by packaging themselves as "plain speakers," California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks not only plainly, but in simplistic terms that rely largely on stereotypes.  Sort of like high school sophomores.

Phase II of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on intelligence on Iraq is out, issued on a Friday as is usual with reports you want to keep out of the news.

An editorial in the Hartford Courant notes that the National Review, the conservative biweekly, recently asked scholars, military experts and geopolitical strategists to reflect on Iraq. The Courant notes that the consensus was that the situation is bad and getting worse, despite the fact that most of the commentators come from "the hawks' aviary." Among the views:

I know we're supposed to be hating Iran right now, until the next change in the war schedule, but come on, it's the conservatives pushing that line and how can they hate a country whose president sounds so much like them?

Paul Weyrich, moralist supreme, has said so many frightening things about Christian conservative revolutions, tearing down modern institutions, and the like, that my hair curls whenever I actually hear the name.

After you basically call them traitors, you can't then expect them to cooperate with you.

Things just haven't been the same for the national Republicans since the slew of indictments, investigations, revelations, and bad war news.  For example, I doubt that Ken Mehlman can read this day's worth of headlines without feeling the need for just a few drinks, or some Pepto.

Who keeps saying the MSM is still liberal? I'd love to know how that bit of rhetoric can even exist, especially in this last week...

Check out these four excerpts from national leaders speaking about wars of ideology.  Can you match the speech with the speaker?

Ask any elderly veteran fighting the VA system for medical and nursing care how long hero status lasts.  Or ask any of the many, many World Trade Center workers who searched and cleared the site after 9/11.

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