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...After Tuesday night, the Pelosi-Daschles are going to have to find themselves a stronger fog-making machine. The one they've been using is deader than an empty can of aerosol spray.
That goes for Peter Jennings as well, the only anchor I watched last night, not only because he's been leading the media charge against Bush but also because of his recent eagerness to play the role of Bonior-McDermott-Penn in Baghdad. Editorializing on no basis save his own uncontained prejudices, Peter before the speech decided to give his own abbreviated version by announcing that "the state of the union is uncertain," that "most people" agree with his various views, that the U.S. finds itself in the "most weakened position since 9/11" and that President Bush is "still very popular" -- the "still" reflecting a certainty that Bush's popularity can't last and won't be allowed to.
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Bush was in full command no less than on September 21, 2001, but in certain ways even more impressively because he didn't need to be spectacular. This time there was no sense at all that he was giving the speech of his life, or having to resort to the bombast of last year's State of the Union. Instead what you saw is the leader of the free world easily filling that role that's become his destiny. He dominated this congressional gathering no less than he did his United Nations audience last fall.
Amen!