Reply #12: Wonderful writeup Karen.

[TayTay]

Did you hear Dick Lugar on his first round of questions express doubts and say that we are financing these wars with borrowed money from China and so forth. Wow! Just Wow!

BTW, I think that the doubts being expressed are having an impact. Repubs took to the floor of the Senate to redouble their efforts to get those troop buildups through quickly. Lieberman, McCain and Graham were up as a group and Hutchison from TX even used the old "cut and run" babble-speak to run the conservative repub line. Very interesting development.

Excellent hearing. The Chairman had an opening statement which was clear and exceptionally on point. Then, after the intro remarks from the speakers, he just went for it. Everything I needed to know from this hearing came from that first 7 minute cross. Wow!