call it a week...

A little good news for you this fine, albeit rainy, friday afternoon (Beantown Time), i.e., if you catch this before you head home:

[I]t's just interesting to note that new confidence and newly partisan behavior has firmly penetrated the Senate. And Democrats now know that being strong on Iraq is a winning strategy. For thirty years, Democrats have been taught not to fight, and activists have been taught to not respect party structures and work outside them. Both of those trends are in full reverse, and while we won't see the full effects of this trend for twenty years, this is a very promising development.

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Update: Not that I believe in the nonsense, but this is my 666th posting since I started Barking Up Trees in August '05.

Put that in yer pipe'n smoke it!