I Hate To Say I Told You So...

...but...

Having been ass-deep in alligators this week, I'm a little late on some rather huge stories. Somewhere down there is a post I wrote about Bush delaying decisions on What To Do About Iraq because his own people were doing studies in addition to the Iraq Study Group headed by dad's friend James Baker and Lee Hamilton. I had said Bush was looking for something to hold off having to be...what's the word I'm looking for...having to be...presidential, that's it. A decider.

Now that the election winds have died down, now that he has run out of countries to travel to that are willing to be seen with him, he's decided to blow the politics of it in your face (he's never done that before) and forego making a speech about his decision until January.

Here's what this picture will look like: by the time they're done writing the speech, Democrats will have already started in their jobs as the majority in Congress. Instead of talking about the 'way forward' in Iraq, he's going to use the speech as a campaign opportunity for '08. He will criticize the Dems for standing in the way of winning and all that. Wait for it.

Wait until January. It's not like there are soldiers dying in the meantime.