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Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who stumbled badly last week when she publicly backed the failed candidacy of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, could be headed for another political tumble if she presses ahead with long-standing plans to elevate Rep. Alcee Hastings, a senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to the panel's chairmanship...
...Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, will brief the President and then the public on its findings...
...Washington Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton will brief the President and then the public on its findings...
...Against traditional political wisdom, national themes did matter more than local loyalties and personalities in 2006. George Bush was far more likely to show up in a Democratic candidate's ad than a Republican's. Many Democrats have translated their victory into a mandate for change in Iraq; the day after the midterms, Sen. Harry Reid called for a bipartisan summit on the issue, saying "The President must listen and work with Democrats to fix his failed policy." But in the end, what appears to have mattered most was Congress' own behavior. Fully 74% of voters surveyed in exit polls...
...session defending his view that no more U.S. troops are needed in Iraq now. Abizaid offered nothing new despite the fact that the American view of Iraq has changed dramatically with the election results in the past week. The senators, searching for political cover, needed him to respond. Another Democrat, incoming Committee chairman Carl Levin, warned Abizaid, "'stay the course' is not a strategy for success in Iraq. We should put the responsibility for Iraq's future squarely where it belongs - on the Iraqis. We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves...