Joe Lockhart: “You know, inevitability campaigns tend to lose.”

Today the Bush administration must answer for what may be the most grave and catastrophic mistake in a tragic series of blunders in Iraq.

He intimates here that he's got the military on his side in a political battle. What does that mean? Take it to its logical extreme, which is if he doesn't get his way, if the voters aren't with him, he has the military. That has real…

But the political question is the optics of the President of the United States tying the courts up for the next year or two to cope himself from going in and telling the truth to the prosecutor are very bad political optics.

I could spend all day here talking about what he didn't address. He didn't address the health care crisis in this country. He didn't address the job crisis.