Like what Eason Jordan is doing with coverage in Iraq, right? Oregon’s only Republican Senator, Gordon Smith, as you know, comes out to pillory the President on Iraq policy and now it’s believed he was doing the President a favor? He must be working toward the Lincoln Chafee hall of fame honors.
Smith goes to duh.com for these gems, such as it’s a bad thing when US soldiers are killed. Getting blown up by these IED things is bad. Oh, and, because of those things, the President’s plan is immoral. Maybe he’s been taking lessons from the new House Intelligence Committee head, Sylvestre Reyes.
I’ve seen at least two of Gordon’s TV appearances since he went before the empty Senate and made his TV speech which his team sent straightaway to the media and he says the same thing over and over. He says these things at a time when the President is already planning to make changes in strategy. But the biggest thing in Gordon’s mind is: 2008 when he’s up for re election.
I will agree with him on the need for more troops and I only THINK that’s what he wants because he continues to be unclear in what he wants the President to do. Here’s his original comment:

“I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd… But, we have no business being a policeman in someone else’s civil war. So I welcome the Iraq study group but I’d rather do it quicker rather than later. Whatever it is, it will not be pretty. I am looking for answers but the current course is unacceptable to this U.S. Senator…. I’m afraid rather than leveling with the American people saying this was going to be a decade-long conflict because of the ancient hatreds that exist in that part of the world, that we tried to win with too few troops in too fast a time.let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way. I would have never voted for this conflict had I reason to believe that the intelligence we had was not accurate. It was not accurate, but that is history. Now we must find a way to make the best of a terrible situation at a minimum of loss of life for our brave fighting men and women.”

Now Dave Reinhard says Gordon was just doing us all a favor by stating the obvious and then disengenuously claiming it was “immoral.” Sorry Dave I can’t go there with you. Dave says basically, “Gee if you just had a chance to talk with him, he’d explain it to you.”
Been there done that. No. No. NO and no. Gordon won’t come on the show. Amazing. We started calling at 6:55 pm last Thursday.
Here’s the link to Dave’s piece in the O.

PS Gordon I told you the Democrats won’t vote for you just because you triangulate your position. Here’s the latest cartoon from Blue Oregon.