…No, I’m perfectly serious. We have had to deal with two [expletive deleted] years of this administration’s clueless posturing on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: more, if you count the clueless posturing that took place before the election. And after those two-plus years we are now being told that the plan for KSM is that he… be detained indefinitely . No civilian trial. No military commission. Just keep him imprisoned until he drops dead of old age, apparently. Gee, kids: are we finding out that national security is HARD? Now, I don’t have a problem with indefinitely detaining the terrorist who murdered Daniel Pearl . But the White House doesn’t get off of the hook for this one. If they don’t have a clue – which they clearly don’t – and so need to crib off of the Bush years to get a GWOT* strategy up and running, then they should call in Liz Cheney for NSA. She’s got the right background; the right connections to all those grown-ups that this administration has been slandering, libeling, and generally maligning over the years; and, most importantly, putting her in the job will be a tacit admission of past error on the Democrats’ part. I don’t ever expect an open admission of past error; the Establishment Left is notably ungracious about being wrong, and I don’t have the energy to collectively beat into their heads the sense of propriety that they should have learned from their parents. But we can certainly make them act like adults. Moe Lane ( crosspost ) PS: Yes, the neocon is laughing at the antiwar folks. Again. Because I can . *Global War On Terror.
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Liz Cheney for National Security Advisor!
House . Senate . Governorships . If you don’t feel like clicking through the links, allow me to summarize: ten more House seats shifted in the GOP’s favor, and so did three Senate seats, and so did four Governor’s races. Only one of them (WY-GOV) is now off the actual board , but Cook is now projecting a net +6 to +8 GOP in the Governors’ races, a net +7 to +9 GOP in the Senate, and at least a net +35 GOP in the House. The House is particularly of interest, as there are currently forty-five Toss-Up races listed by Cook right now, and only three of them are Republican seats. Couple this with the latest set of regional race polls from Republican-leaning American Action Forum , and the truly atrocious (for the other side) enthusiasm gap that Democrat -leaning Public Policy Polling is finding, and Larry Sabato’s needed-to-slam-a-shot of whiskey-first prediction of a lost House and Senate on the edge , and you get… a lot of people blankly staring at their scratch papers or computer screens and thinking This can’t be right. I must have subtracted where I should have added, or something. Or maybe I made an assumption that I shouldn’t have. Things can’t be this bad for the Democratic party. Seriously. This is turning out to be one of the most unnerving election cycles in recent memory: sort of like a combination of 2006 and 2008. On steroids. Laced with crystal meth. Either that, or everybody’s model is completely wrong. Which is why people keep writing some variant of “Well, it’s still X days before the election; a lot can change” whenever this topic comes up. It’s not so much a desire to cover one’s rear as it is a tacit admission that what may be coming in November is an extremely low-probability scenario. Even possibly the often-promised, never-seen, fabled realig… :pause: Well, it’s still sixty one days before the election. A lot can change. Moe Lane Crossposted to Moe Lane .
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The last (probably) pre-Labor Day Cook rankings.
