The Whole Delivery

And just moving along back to a stupid war. Nothing else to see in the unsurprising news of the week.

ALL OF IT : Obama accepted McChrystal's resignation and put The Man Called Petraeus in the job. It's a savvy political move and may just destroy any plans Petraeus had for elective office. It's a holy mess over there. Unless a miracle happens, he'll now be caught in the quagmire. The president's words about the civilian chain of command were welcome and important. I'm glad my skepticism about that was proven wrong. Unfortunately this whole thing seems to be translating into doubling down on the policy. At the end of the statement a lone reporter called out "Mr President, can this war be won?" The president didn't answer. Why the hell are we still there?

Photo thanks to Think Progress This will go on for another day, and though some people maybe tired of it going on for another day, you shouldn't be. Because it is your tax players money, and the future of that money, getting decided in the next couple of days. By a 228-205 decision, the bailout deal failed today. The simple question after this comes to this : Will the market fail if this bill doesn't past? And by the way, you know whose been quiet the last few days besides Dick Cheney of course: Surprisingly, the answer wouldn't be Karl Rove. Instead, it is our Treasur Secretary Henry Paulson, who loved to be in fromt of the camera all of last week. So now, Mr. Paulson, who was busy in front of the camera not that long ago urging for this bill to get passed, has been mime silent since McCain pulled his selfish stupid act on Wednesday to "suspend" his campaign. I guess since he wasn't going to get that "blank check" that he wanted, he doesn't wan...