[jgdiamond]

Looks like Gephardt and Daschle are hiding out tonight as they are still residing in the hall of shame for their general behavior

I hadn't realized it til you mentioned it, but you're right - they were nowhere to be seen tonight. On the other hand, Lieberman seemed to have been cloned and in front of every camera available.

[Kath]

Lieberman is a presidential wanna be. Of course he is going to put his face in front of every camera he possibly can.

[McLynnan]

I saw Lieberman on Fox tonight and he seemed actually supportive. Perhaps he's campaigning again, but you know he's going to find something objectionable before it's all over with.

[GretchenEE]

As I read the text of W's speech (thanks to Wphile's link), by the second paragraph my thoughts were not so much on the speech but on how much dem blather and whining we are going to hear depending on how W handled this with the whinebabies before showtime. If W fully explored his plan with them (I don't know how he handles this), then I would expect them to be armed and ready and insidiously leaking unsourced things against it quickly in the aftermath of his presentation. If he didn't explore / explain it fully, they would be armed and ready and whining that he kept them in the dark.

So, ... IF he told them first, and somehow nailed their tongues into the Great Wall of State Secrecy, that'll be about A Major Event. It's shocking that we Americans should even have to be worrying about the Congressional leaders on this front.