Battle Of The Bulge? Not Quite!

the
White House's
coordinated PR
offensive (involving
speeches by most of the foreign policy principals)
aimed at knocking down criticism of the war, the
failure to find WMD and the evidence of
administration deceptions.

To me -- with only a touch of satire or irony --
the analogy is to the Battle of the Bulge -- a bold,
but ultimately self-defeating counterstroke from a
retreating army.

In truth, it's the White House's biggest exercise in
up-is-downism yet. The question, I think, is how
much the press and the Democrats will push
back in response. The administration's great
vulnerability now is its credibility -- whether it
knows what it's doing or tells the truth about
what it's doing. And on that count this new
bundle of speeches offers a very target rich
environment.

-- Josh Marshall Tweet