President Bush and McCain, the front-runner for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, will have trouble finding support from more than 12 of the 49 Republican senators when pressing for a surge of 30,000 troops. "It's Alice in Wonderland," Sen. Chuck Hagel, second-ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me in describing the proposal. "I'm absolutely opposed to sending any more troops to Iraq. It is folly."
What to do about Iraq poses not only a national policy crisis but profound political problems for the Republican Party. Disenchantment with George W. Bush within the GOP runs deep. Republican leaders around the country, anticipating that the 2006 election disaster would prompt an orderly disengagement from Iraq, are shocked that the president now appears ready to add troops.
Even though I am painfully aware that George Bush is completely divorced from reality, I have to say that this total cluelessness about how his fellow Republicans feel is still kind of spooky.
I mean it just goes to demonstrate that if he is not stopped George has no intention of doing a damn thing any differently then he has in the past four years.
Unbelievable!
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