Quick Notes

Hearings ad naseum on the horizon. It's going to make the Iran-Contra hearings look like a amphetamine riddled squirrel escaping a rabid wolverine.

"Now who will they kick around?" asks Slate. Now that Bush is a lame duck, he's not the boogeyman they can pin the blame on now. Where will their next target be?


Be careful what you wish for says Victor Davis Hanson. Explaining that the tree of victory often yields bitter fruit.

The note that DonViti linked to as evidence of all going right is
evidence that things have gone horribly wrong according to Tim Blair. I'm gonna go with Tim on this one.


Four coming policy battles after Rumsfeld. All of them began with or predated him and will be fought long after Gates is gone. Specifically #1 and #3.

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