Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
You'd hope that Congress changing hands might inject some sanity into the Iraq debate, but unfortunately some of the new power brokers are every bit as clueless as the people they are replacing. This isn't even hard stuff; it's the very most basic background information, and the incoming Chair of the Intelligence Committee (Intelligence, for cryin' out loud - it's like the head of the SPLC guessing that the Klan is predominantly black) clearly hasn't the first idea and is just pulling stuff out of his ass.
God help us, we are so screwed.
I was hoping that Pelosi would go a bit further down the depth chart on House Intelligence and tap Rush Holt as the new chair. In addition to the gotcha moment described above, Reyes has apparently joined the Saint John McCain "One Last Shot" chorus supporting an infusion of *additional* troops into Iraq.
As either Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sigh.
Posted by: NCProsecutor at December 11, 2006 09:12 AMeither Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin
or possibly Ludwig Wittgenstein. Definitely one of those genius types.
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at December 11, 2006 10:05 AMAlways possible of course. Val Kilmer is the real source of much of mankind's accumulated wisdom.
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at December 11, 2006 12:20 PMFranklin said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Einstein said "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Wittgenstein said: "The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
Which was smarter?