Remember, since the Clinton Impeachment proceeding, the quoted stance of the GOP has been "leader lead, not follow polls!!" THis in essence says, "Once we got yo' money, to hell wid' ya!" In other words, "We will pander and prance until the voting's over, after that please leave your comments in the can by the door, we have money to make here!" Partisanship represents which party or members will endorse whatever, in return for ploitical chips. These chips can be cashed for any combination of votes for pork bills, cash on the barrel, fringe benefits and nights in the White house. THe American government (Dems included, but far less single minded) has degraded into a circus off some TV drama.

indeed, phil. circus is exactly the right word...

It's centrist --- in the center between the population and the President.

Calling the plan by the word preferred by the administration ("augmentation") as used by Condi Rice in her Senate testimony = centrist.

Calling the plan what it really is (escalation) = too partisan.

Reality does indeed have a liberal bias.

I also find it insanely ridiculous that CNN goes out of its way to note that Democrats coined the term escalation without any acknowlegement that Condi coined the term "augmentation" and was essentially laughed out of the room.

Unbelieveable.

Tony Snow on augmentation and escalation from Hardball, 1.12.07:

"MATTHEWS: What do you think of the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice using the term “augmentation” rather than escalation to define the 20,000 additional troops going to the war?

SNOW: I think it‘s fine.

MATTHEWS: You don‘t find “augmentation” a dodge?

SNOW: Well, escalation is also an attempt to frame it in a way.

Look, you got—you pick your term."

I understand that the White House has to sell it a certain way, and I can even understand Warner using the term in the resolution, but the press just reflexively using this administration's poll-tested nomenclature, again, (see, terrorist surveillance program, personal accounts, et al.) is nauseating. And now, on top of it all, they slap the "CENTRIST" label on it.

Wake me up when it's all over.

The problem with the word "escalation" is that for the Baby Boomer generation it triggers the horror, madness, frustration and anger felt during the Vietnam War. It just is not a good word for BU$HCO to be tied to or identified with.

These Republicans know they have blood on their hands and HAVE to do something to wash at least some of it off. This is too little too late. They will take to blood with them to their graves.

because every now and then i get tired of muttering about the usual suspects, let me instead take a moment and blame Theodore White.

Until he wrote The Making of the President, 1960, no one thought there was money to be made in covering the inside baseball of politics (i mean, there were clever columnists, but not straight journalists). once that horse was let out of the barn, though, we've had four decades of increasing fetishization of inside baseball inside the beltway.

as people like greg point out on a daily basis, the only way to understand the kind of junk that we so often get in lieu of news coverage is as a game engaged in by a few thousands of players, largely inside washington, some on the political sides, some on the advocacy side, and some on the "journalism" side.

within washington, it makes perfect sense to describe a resolution that attracts 60 votes as "more centrist" than a resolution that attracts 51.

that it makes no sense by any objective consideration makes no difference to people whose entire frame of reference is subjective.

Indignation, hah! This is the sure path to victimhood, again. All these nincompoops in the Senate (with a few exceptions) understand is what Bush understands - a whack on the side of the head with a figurative 2x4. They have been mincing words, worrying about offending the smallest groups, always searching for watered-down language and tricks that rope in the greatest number of people. It is so ingrained it has addled Lieberman's and McCain's heads. So kill some more people while they quibble over words, and worry about hurting the President's feelings. Warner, especially, is a master at this kind of insipid stupidity. My point is, act and threaten these people and they will suddenly stiffen their backbones, but until then they will continue this game-playing. To expect otherwise is to set oneself up for a fall, to become a victim; victims lament; people who aren't victims act.

From the dictionary:

Augment (v.t.). To make boobs bigger.

Seems to fit, no?

While they are at it why dont they change from the word "troops" to "soldiers"

"Soldiers" just sounds so much better and you maybe be able to get 63 Senators to vote for it instead of 62.

Please make it stop.

"The other resolution was a real thumb in the eye to the president, our goal is to make the same point but get 60-65 votes, not 51 or 52," said the source.

Boo-hoo GWB foreign adventure has been a disaster and all Hagel Collins and Nelson are concerned is whether GWB gets his feelings hurt???

huh???

I am sure the troops that are going to have their tours extended and their families appreciate that Sen hagel....gee thanks

Is GWB the first President in history that must absolutely be treated with kid gloves IN EVERY SITUATION??? He is a 60 year old man for goddsakes who has made a litany of horrible and ultimately preventable decisions that has lead to the deaths of 100 of thousands of people and we are supposed to care if his feelings are hurt b/c he has been wrong every step of the way.

gimme a break...

"A source familiar with a draft as of Friday said the word "escalation" in the first resolution -- a term coined by Democrats..."

"Coined by the Democrats." Uhhh... yeah. I thought I'd heard the term before, but apparently not. Thank God CNN straightened that one out for us.

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