The Houston Chronicle reports James A Baker III has suggested that the Iraq Study Group which he leads will present Bush with options somewhere between the extremes of "stay the course" and "cut and run.

Occasionally I tend to have some pretty good serious thoughts.

I feel like I'm probably just like everyone else around here who has had a real bellyful of the success that Rove has had with regurgitating the whole offensive "cut and run" meme.  This one is like a zombie; kind of a walking undead American war casualty with some sort of evil electronic chip implant that orders it to automatically sniff out and go after Democrats exclusively.  It refuses to die, no matter how many heroes such as John Murtha take head shots at it.  I'm continually appalled at the extent to which mainstream media echoes and repeats it without the slightest hint of "fair and balanced" counterpoint.