The Pony Search

I keep reading stories like this one today:

[Sessions] indicated Sunday that Republicans will be ready by September to look at bipartisan efforts to draw down the troops that were part of the surge to help secure Baghdad.

"We have to be realistic," Sessions said on CBS's Face the Nation. "We have to know that we can't achieve everything we'd like to achieve. We have a limited number of men and women we can send to Iraq, and we can't overburden them."

The senator added that, when General David Petraeus is reporting back on the progress of the surge in September, "I think most of the people in Congress believe, unless something extraordinary occurs, that we should be on a move to draw those surge numbers down." [...]

Statements like this one made by the very conservative Jeff Sessions are being seen as evidence that "the train has left the station" on trying to tamp down expectations for September.

Why?

When has anyone ever held accountable for these types of statements? Is it not totally possible that by September Sessions and McConnell will have different statements reflecting the "progress" in Iraq? I can't believe that anyone, especially liberal bloggers, would believe anything these folks say about the future, particularly if it involves bucking the Preznit.

Foggetaboutit. Come September Petraeus will report progress and all the good Republibots will march to the tune. And even if Pumpkinhead brings up a gotcha quote, it will all simply be whitewashed away .......