It seems to me almost impossible now for the president to come out of a meeting with Mr. Maliki in the next few hours and say with a straigh...
Of course we believe in withdrawal. There's no timetable here. And we'll do it when the mission is completed.
It's time to say to the Iraqis, we're giving you to this period of time. Get your act together. We're coming home.
Where he does retain power is not as a domestic president, but as an international commander in chief.
There's not much you can do. ... the second terms are always worse than first terms. And boy, is George W. Bush proving that one.
Only 20 percent of the people in the country right now support putting more troops in there.
Now that they have the Senate, apparently, they have a lot more power together with the House and the Senate to push.
That's a big deal to have Joe Biden in there.
Absolutely. It's turned what looked like last night into a dramatic victory for Democrats into an historic victory for Democrats.
The Democrats got entrusted with a lot of power, and in 1994, Newt Gingrich and company came in. It was a cleansing election. This was anoth...
We're in a moment of real political high drama in the United States.
Had the president prevailed yesterday, I think he would have gone that route.
The bigger question to me right now, is the president seriously interested in working with the Democrats?
That's right. That's fundamentally the choice. Do you escalate in order to try to secure it, give it one more big try.
But I think they have the opportunity now to redefine themselves as a party.
Now it's the -- it's Republican conservatives who are on the defensive.
I am -- I'm just mystified, because his strong suit -- George W. Bush's strong suit has always been, he's straight-talking.
They may stay home. They may go fishing, as a matter of fact, and send a message to the party, look, just don't take us for granted. You hav...
