Sunday, April 29, 2007
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Joe Biden was pure Joe Biden on MTP, and we’re not sure what that was all about. He likes Roe v. Wade and trimester-theory as a “template.” Tim Russert asked him why he had been “so wrong” about voting for the Iraq resolution, and Biden explained that all the evidence pointed to Saddam possessing WMD, and global intelligence agreed: “This was not some Cheney pipe dream. They [Iraqis] had them [WMD] catalogued.”

On FNS, John McCain would not talk about being accused of flip-flopping by Mitt Romney, would mention that he ran around the rim of the Grand Canyon, and said that he does not throw temper tantrums.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, appearing with George Stephanopoulos on TW, talked of Tenet and “imminence” — “the question of imminence is not one of whether somebody’s going to strike tomorrow” – and asserted that the President made the decision to invade Iraq based on “totality” of the situation with Saddam Hussein in Iraq. (Didn’t the American lefties scream about WMD?)

Next on TW, Senator Sam Brownback stressed the need to “aggressively” push for a political solution. Senator Russ Feingold intoned that “American troops are dying for no good reason. … They are being sacrificed because people want political comfort in Washington.”

On FTN, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked about George Tenet’s book in which he evidently freaks out in his paranoia about “slam dunk.” Rice said that she took the “slam dunk” comment to mean only that Tenet thought the evidence against Saddam was pretty strong. Everyone else thought that, as well. She’s going to resist Hank Waxman’s subpoena, and she does not rule out talking to the Iranians in Egypt next week.

Jack Murtha was next on FTN, and he’s still unglued. He said that the Administration has intimidated our military into lying according to an Administration script. Murtha threatened impeachment if nothing else convinced the President to do things the Jack Murtha way.

On LE, Blitzer pointed out that Clinton (Bill)’s peeps had warned that the sanctions against Saddam were working but Bush invaded anyway. Secretary replied that the sanctions had clearly not been working – Oil for Food was an example – and that the choice the Administration faced was to stop the problem now or wait until later when it was much more dangerous.

Check out RedState.com for the the show-by-show review….