... the administration has invested so much in Petraeus, have engaged in such a hagiographic inflation of his significance that one must ask - is the fix in? How can you trust what will be reported back no matter when it happens? How can Petraeus possibly report that he's failed after heroic expectations have been stoked this way? Is he a patsy or willing participant in a scam? He did go on an ultra right wing radio show - hard to believe that was innocent. This whole enterprise increasingly looks like a vapor hanging over a cesspool.
The push back from Republican senators is a clear sign that only the indoctrinated cool-aid drinkers are left believing this administration has not become dangerously unhinged from reality. Of course one hopes that's all it is, that they're merely unhinged - if they have in fact embraced an alternate reality with all the fervid delusion of religious zealots, well, that's a wee bit more disturbing. How can we be sure Petraeus is acting as an independent agent here, that his conscience has not been co-opted? This administration has so sullied the waters around them how can anyone who steps into that water possibly stay clean?
