President Pilotpants did some campaigning today - on Capitol Hill. He tried to calm down the troops over the fighting going on over the new budget. Aside from suggesting they earmark the entire $375 billion 2005 deficit toward rebuilding what he destroyed in Iraq, but he tried convincing Hill GOPers to vote for him. Two reactions from
CNN:
"The president's going to win," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, crowed on his way out of the meeting, while Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said it was a "good speech."
McCain could hardly contain his ennui.