It's About Freaking Time

The editorial writers of the Washington Post came out with yet another hit piece attacking the Democrats' position on the Iraq Catastrophe. This is what Democratic Rep. David Obey said on the House floor today with regard to the Post's editiorial page (via Talking Points Memo):

Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn't listen enough to people like The Washington Post. It's that we listened too much. They endorsed going to war in the first place. They helped drive the drumbeat that drove almost two-thirds of the people in this chamber to vote for that misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised war that has destroyed our influence over a third of the world. So I make no apology if the moral sensibilities of some people on this floor, or the editorial writers of The Washington Post, are offended because they don't like the specific language contained in our benchmarks or in our timelines.

What matters in the end is not what the specific language is. What matters is whether or not we produce a product today that puts pressure on this Administration and sends a message to Iraq, to the Iraqi politicians that we're going to end the permanent long-term dead end babysitting service. That's what we're trying to do. And if The Washington Post is offended about the way we do it, that's just too bad.

I've often expressed my view that the American News Media are just as responsible for getting us into the Iraq Debacle as anyone else, and it's about time someone in Congress brought this up.