On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote:
> I wish I found this as reassuring as Yoshie seems to. As I wrote at
> slightly
> greater length on my blog, it sounds quite ominous to me. What I
> hear Harry
> saying is that the President is not allowed to go on an Iran
> joyride without
> taking Congress along. He did _not_ say that Congress wouldn't go
> along --
> and in fact, given the proper Gulf of Tonkin setup, I'm quite sure
> they would
> go along.
>
> Anybody think otherwise?
It was reassuring to see Jay Rockefeller's comments in today's NYT <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/washington/20intel.html? _r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1169305987-oxUEJzcCSch5VN8vvp5UOw>. But I alternate between thinking that the Dems are acting as some relatively sane grownup leash on the pres, and thinking that they're just motivated by institutional narcissism. Let's hope it's the former.
Doug