US General asks for negotiations in Fallujah.
Three day moving average of the Liberal Zeitgeist stays at 60, while the daily is 62.
It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake. summarizes the events of yesterday, including the breaking of political will of the Iraqi Provisional Authority to support a continued US offensive.
The big story here is how the wolves are going to circle around Rice. She fleisched the panel, got cover in the right wing sections of the press with headlines like "no silver bullet". The PDB of August 6th - whose contents have been circulated more and more widely - flatly contradicts her characterization of it as "historical" and "foreign". This information is now getting out
Remember to tell us how the election will turn out
Other people, however will write about Rice, and about Iraq.
On the horizon is the question of the recovery: people think that this is the "rebound" from a recession - where people are put back to work after inflation is wrung out. Instead, it is the "boom" at the end of an expansion, where inflation is back, and the Fed and the government will have to tighten.
Basically, this administration was a giant looting expedition into the treasury, and about 1 trillion dollars were transfered to the top. Their politics will now be about protecting that ill gotten gain, and convincing poor people that it is their planet, and the rest of us just rent it from them.