AC Kleinheider thinks Lamar! Alexander is emerging as the leader of a less insane GOP policy on Iraq, namely implementing the Iraq Strategy Group recommendations, and that a moderate consensus would "marginalize the increasingly vociferous faction of the Democratic base."

Arianna Huffington thinks it's a transparent political ploy designed to distance himself and other Republicans who are up for reelection from Bush's catastrophe in Iraq, and while applauding anyone willing to speak out against the insanity says we need a concrete plan to bring the troops home and these "I've seen the light" Republicans aren't delivering.

I'm going with option B. It's nice that some of these guys are finally coming around, but as Huffington says, "welcome to 2004." They're just reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the 2006 election cup and trying to spread their bets accordingly. They are culpable, and they shouldn't be let off the hook, and neither should any of the spineless Democrats in Congress who refuse to put an end to this insanity or at least get Bush and the GOP on record with another veto.

And while we're posturing and pontificating, 30 more American soldiers have died in Iraq so far this month, and it's only the 11th.