IS IT OVER II?

Great and simple response from a reader: “It’ll be over when every last al Qaeda recruit is dead.” Amen.

HUBRIS WATCH: I said last week that I found Trent Lott’s immediate offensive in the culture wars – on partial birth abortion – to be dumb. Glad to see the White House agrees with me. And that’s not because I’m against the measure. It’s because the White House can see a truly stupid piece of politics and Trent Lott never has.

MORE CLYMER ERRORS: Tim Noah emails yet another error in Adam Clymer’s recent piece on the Bush dynasty:

“Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, whose loss in the race for governor of Maryland on Tuesday was the family’s first general election defeat since John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, her great-grandfather, was beaten in a race for governor of Massachusetts in 1922.” Wrong. Townsend herself suffered a general election defeat in 1986, when she ran for Congress. (I was her issues director.) She lost in the general to the Republican incumbent, Helen Delich Bentley.

I think Clymer may be setting a record here.