"This is a Washington inside job."

God, I wish Russ Feingold were running for president. Here he is on Countdown the other night, pointing out how NO ONE who worked on the Iraq Study Group report opposed the premise of the war, and how the entire report looks at the entire world through the prism of Iraq.

When I look at the parade of lameasses who constitute the likely Democratic field in 2008, I could cry, especially when put against the band of authoritarian daddy-figures who are the likely Republican, all of whom promise to be Just Like Georgie -- only worse and with somewhat more ability to articulate.