There's never really all that much you have to say about a Broder column, just as there's never really any way to say it without being told in the comments that you should just stop talking about Broder.
But the fact is, we're still stuck with him as a Wise Old Man of Washington. Until we finally break through with people that he's a broken record -- and a 78 at that.
This time, Broder's slavering over Master Thespian Lindsey Graham. He's incisive! He's provocative! He's not as self-absorbed as Barbara Boxer!
Whatever.
So here's the final word from the latest dispatch:
"What we do can affect the outcome. But if we don't see progress on two of the three big issues -- oil revenues, de-Baathification, provincial elections -- in the next 90 days, it may not happen. And Iraq could be a failed state."
Despite the president's words, that sounds realistic.
Note the brash independence! "Despite the president's words!" Scintillating!
But seriously, you're buying into the "in the next 90 days" thing again? How many times do you have to see this play before you just start laughing? Don't you study game film, Broder?
Seriously. At 78 years old, you can't afford to be giving away many more Friedman Units or subdivisions thereof.
Let's face it, at this stage of the game, there's nothing "realistic" about anyone who fights every mention of the word "timeline," and yet hands you exactly that every time you ask. Over and over and over again.
Shake it off, Broder. You don't want to go down this way.