"No dice with the frauline?"

Having read some beltway online magazine's in the past, such as The Hill (co editor Mort Kondrache from FOX) and The Weekly Standard, I long ago realized that within the DC loop Nancy Pelosi is considered "dumb." With a chuckle and a friendly rib directed elbow other congressmen, Senators, and media joke about her incapacity for thought. She has confirmed yet again this little dirty (not so) secret about the first woman Speaker of the House. Today she is sending out a formal press release describing the troop surge as, "a total and utter failure." This within 24 hours of General Patraius announcing that the once most hostile province in theater, Anbar, is so improving that full control of security maybe handed off to the Iraqi forces by March, allowing a number of US troops to come home.

The point is that by any objective standard the surge has been a smashing success. I'll agree it was long over due, etc, and Titus may feel compelled to say who will be accountable for past mistakes .... but that's not the point I'm making here. The move is clearly working and the CIC should get the credit if he's going to receive the blame when things were going poorly. And my more specific point is about Pelosi. Here she is, showing just how inept she is as a "leader" and as an individual in my opinion. How morally bankrupt does one have to be in order to think that downplaying the obvious success and sacrifices of our men in combat is an acceptable condition of attacking your political foe? The only reason she holds that seat is because she's the daughter of a powerful CA politician whom was mayor of San Fransisco for a while. Otherwise she'd be doing hair of Fifth and Figueroa in LA with a 2 pack a day habit and a bunch of unsold Mary Kay products in her hatch back that has a "sexy single" bumper sticker half worn out on the back .....