For a guy who has gotten everything wrong on Iraq, supporting the Neocon agenda from beginning to end, and who clapped as loud as possible for President Bush's action on most every contentious issue, you have to admire Fred Hiatt's sheer gall. He has the gall to call someone not named Bush or Cheney or Hiatt irresponsible on Iraq:

The decision of Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) to deny rather than nourish a bipartisan agreement is, of course, irresponsible.

See, Hiatt's newest friends, the so called GOP Moderates like Warner and Lugar, don't have a chance to make phony deals, as Warner did in the May Iraq Supplemental for "benchmarks." We now know "benchmarks" never meant a darn (well, we knew it then but Fred Hiatt pretended it meant something.)

The good news is Fred Hiatt and his ilk are irrelevant now in terms of framing public opinion. The Beltway Gasbags are ignored by all except themselves. The question now is can Democrats muster the resolve to stop Fred Hiatt's favorite policy disaster, Bush's Iraq Debacle. Harry Reid has gotten it. And I think most Dems are getting it. And Fred Hiatt continues his long track record of ignominy. The man has been a disgrace for some time. Thank God he is now an irrelevant disgrace.