Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review opines:
Save for Rich reading George Tenet, it feels like summer break. I headed to D.C. this morning for some meetings and an event tonight and all I see is tourists or government workers taking the day off because it's 80-something degrees.
I guess when your magazine has decided that the US Attorneys firings, missing White House e-mails, the CIA's secret prisons program, the regression of the war in Iraq, botched response to Hurricane Katrina, the 'DC madam' and Paul Wolfowitz are off-limits, then, yes, it's very easy to take a break today.
In this, one supposes, they are very much like the Iraqi parliament, which is being urged very much not to go on vacation by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton:
While U.S. forces remain in Iraq to provide security and training for the Iraqi Security Forces, the key to truly establishing a strong Iraq is political progress. Without reaching agreement on several political benchmarks, including regulating Iraq’s oil industry, ending the ban on former Baath party members serving in government jobs and passing constitutional amendments, significant roadblocks to that political progress will remain.