Credit Where Credit is Due: I have to say that those on the Left willing to make public statements (and taking a lot of heat from the hard-lefties) in favor of President Bush set quite an example. Being willing to analyse with an open mind and speak against one's usual partisanship is a sure way to gain credibility in my book. Just watch David Brooks discussing issues with Mark Sheilds on PBS Newshour.

David Corn has just gained some cred in my book with some of his posts at his 'blog, Bushlies.com. And predictably he is reaping the scorn of his fellow Dems. They'll just end up pushing him over to the Right, same as they did me.

Can it be that Bush was right about Iraq?

Now that I have your attention, I don't mean to suggest that he was right to hype (that is, make up) the WMD-threat Iraq posed to Americans, or that he was right to rush to an elective and quasi-unilateral war without planning for the obvious political, social, economic, and security challenges that would emerge after the initial invasion, or that he was right to rejigger his justification for the war and turn this military campaign into phase one of a global crusade to bring "God's gift" (that is, freedom) to some of the repressed of the word, or that he was right to say repeatedly that the United States and the world are safer because of the invasion of Iraq, or that he was right to stay the course

But there was something wonderful about the election.

-David Corn on the Iraqi Elections

-David Corn on the SOTU address

-David Corn hears from the Dems and defends himself