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Urgent Notice: Politics Is Political, and It Cuts Both Ways

Adam B. Kushner
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- At breakfast this morning with Newsweek editors, a reporter asked McCain confidante Lindsey Graham whether the Senate resolution praising the success of the surge—introduced in late July with Senator Joe Lieberman—wasn’t a little political. “Yes,” he told Newsweek, “it was political. Absolutely. I’m trying to smoke out the body. I want them on record on the surge.” Lindsey conceded that Majority Leader Harry Reid was unlikely ever to bring the resolution to a vote, but that he didn’t hope merely to get Obama on record. “I don’t think he’ll be there, but I want everyone in the body—including certain Republicans—to unite this thing.” It’s a good bet the name of Chuck Hagel was on his lips before his staff ushered him out of the room for another meeting.
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