McConnell has NOT changed a bit!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq;_ylt=AutjipmEV9MO6VSi3DGwsbKyFz4D

Rice: Wait until fall for Iraq decision

By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer Fri Jul 13, 10:55 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exhorted congressional critics of Iraq war policy Friday to give the Bush administration and the fledgling government in Baghdad until September to "make a coherent judgment of where we are."


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Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said Friday, "The president himself has indicated some movement in the fall and we're all anxious to hear what he has to say."

"I don't think there's much debate in the Senate about disappointment with the Iraqi government. It's pretty uniform," the Kentucky senator said. But McConnell added that "the vast majority of members in the (GOP) conference here in the Senate are willing to wait for that report to come out."

"Were sorry that the effort in Iraq has been as difficult as it has been," he said, "but giving up and letting the terrorists come into this country isn't a good plan."

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1. Interesting background on McConnell

From AlgaeAwards.Com:

Herald-Leader on McConnell

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2. Not surprising.

No matter the cost, people approach problems with a peculiar mindset, peculiar because of its illogic, not because of its widespread application.
We approach problems as though problems are a valuable resource and there's not enough to go around.

Consequently, we defend those problems instead of fixing them.

Consider two people in a dependent, unhealthy, violent relationship. Logic would call for both people to wise up immediately at the first occurrence of violence and cure it-no matter what that cure looks like. We all know that just doesn't happen in most circumstances. I could cite numerous other examples but the parallel can be drawn from McConnell and the entire reich wing.

As in an abusive relationship, they cannot bring themselves to recognize and fix the problem. It just doesn't occur to them that it's possible, desirable or that it even exists. They will massage the problem, farkle around with it, pretend to fix it, adjust it, do more of it, everything but just see the problem, come up with an immediate, imaginative fix and get it over with.

The reason, of course, is that we see problems, even when they can kill us, as important to our survival and we will defend them against all comers-attack my pet problem and I will attack you!

Doesn't make logical sense, but that's what people do and McConnell is a prime example, suitable for framing, of this quirk of human nature.