We cats don't know about you, but we're watching the coverage of the rapid-fire developments on Syria with wry grins and shakings of our furry heads.
Sometimes, the inside-the-Beltway media just make us want to hack up a hairball. They're all agog about how Washington is "off-script," and how will the President handle his speech tonight, and what about John Kerry, and Mitch McConnell, and Charlie Rose, and blahblahblah. Oh, how the punditheads hate it when they're not in control of the narrative.
You know what? President Obama will be just fine. How do we know? He told folks on Capitol Hill today that he had no expectations of moving the polls 20 points with his speech. "I'm good," he said. "But I'm not that good." We laughed out loud.
The bottom line is this: It is so much better to have this confusion, this genuine response to events in real time, this possibility of diplomacy over an airstrike, and this nail-biting, what-will-happen-next sense of drama — than to have a replay of what happened 10 years ago: The media in duplicitous lockstep with a Republican Administration bent on going to war on a lie.
Just sayin'.
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