And it's a deeper mess tonight than it was only 24 hours ago.
Yes. Yes. It's -- well, we do that all the time.
It's a precedent-setting issue.
I think it's pretty clear now he's leaving.
Well, it raises the question of is this incompetence? Or is it just an intent to lie and deceive? And either way, it's a bad charge, Anderso...
But there is this issue that the president and his White House team have long wanted to protect their own people from having to go up to the...
And why don't -- you know, rule No. 1 of damage control, is when you're inside, get to the bottom of it.
I do think there is an arrogance of power that has been part of their undoing.
When John Sununu came out against him, that was really bad news for the attorney general.
It's unlikely that they can actually get a bill passed, -- Anderson. Even if they get it passed, the president is going to veto it. And they...
But I will tell you something. I think they are -- in a very odd way, despite all their disarray -- and that sort of goes with being Democra...
The president can now have a good-cop/bad-cop routine with the Maliki government.
I think that the Democrats, the growling that they're doing against the war, does -- it puts pressure on the White House.
There's such a thing now as Washington time, the political timetables in Washington, and Baghdad time.
General Petraeus is on a different time scale. He probably does need more time.
It's unlikely they will get through it. But, for the first time, there may be a window.
But, when you go after a fly with a sledgehammer, you can get the fly, but you often cause a lot of ruckus.
I think that John Edwards essentially held people's coats and let them fight it out, and he does emerge unscathed and -- and a little bit ah...
