The best politics is good policy.
The policy is failing; we're in a grave situation; it could very easily descend into catastrophe.
I think it is highlighting those mistakes.
I think that puts enormous pressure on the presidency. You know, we're going to have to do it a another way, a different...
I think it is a repudiation.
The policy in Iraq is failing. The policy in the Middle East is failing. The president cannot walk away from those concl...
I think it's important to note that the president himself, in the last couple of days, while he has been in your neighbo...
I think it's going to be received by a lot of people as too middle of the road, not a clear way out on the military side...
It was a huge embarrassment.
It seems to me almost impossible now for the president to come out of a meeting with Mr. Maliki in the next few hours an...
Of course we believe in withdrawal. There's no timetable here. And we'll do it when the mission is completed.
They could not put a timetable in because they knew the president had already declared publicly and repeatedly that he w...
I think this is just a very bad place. Somebody -- some adult supervision is needed here to put a stop to this hemorrhag...
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.
There's not much you can do. ... the second terms are always worse than first terms. And boy, is George W. Bush proving ...
Where he does retain power is not as a domestic president, but as an international commander in chief.
We're in a moment of real political high drama in the United States.
Now that they have the Senate, apparently, they have a lot more power together with the House and the Senate to push.
