My Favorite Line of the Week

Thursday's hearing of the Senate Armed Forces Committee produced the best line of the week (beating out Tom DeLay's claim that he had no idea what he'd been indicted for). General George Casey, head of forces in Iraq, revealed that the number of Iraqi battalions capable of operating without any help from U.S. troops had fallen from three to just one. Susan Collins had a fabulous comeback: "That contributes to a loss of public confidence in how the war is going. It doesn't feel like progress when we hear today that there is only one Iraqi battalion fully capable."

No, Sen. Collins, it doesn't feel like progress at all.