NO EXIT STRATEGY

Ah, the honeymoon was great while it lasted wasn't it? The Democrats aren't even officially in office yet and already they're keeping John Murtha out of their leadership and backtracking on their promises to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Which, if you're keeping track of things, was what got most of the lot of them elected in the first place.

I know what you're thinking--we may not like to be there, but we can't just cut and run and we need to have a good exit strategy in place, yada yada yada. All true. But the Democrats choosing Guy With Funny Name over the firebrand, anti-occupation, former Gulf War vet Murtha is more than merely symbolic or petty infighting. It's a sign that the Democratic leadership may lack the nerve to leave Iraq on an accelerated time schedule--at least until they (hopefully) get one of their own into the White House in 2008.

They better get crackin'. Supposedly Nostradamus' prediction of the End of Days starts to kick in on December 31, 2006...

Dancing with Dolts

Congrats to Emmitt Smith on winning Dancing with Stars. He seems like a nice guy and he's done all the former football players and other professional athletes proud. I barely watched a lick of it (I was pretty much over it halfway through the second cycle), but I must say that I breathed a little sigh of relief when I saw that neither smug Mario Lopez nor desperate Joey Lawrence was going to take home the little disco ball.

By the way, if you should happen to be tooling around Sherman Oaks and spot a forlorn Joey Lawrence on the street, make sure to give him a hug. And maybe a put-pilot deal. He'll be very grateful.

Sorry tonight's post is so lame. I know it, you know it. It's the holidays and I'm busy, what do you want? I'll try and come up something more entertaining over the weekend, I promise.

Peace.