"The point is that there is no military victory here," he said exclusively to "Good Morning America." "I believe that Gen. Petraeus is a very able man. And I don't have any doubt that they'll win some battles. And I hope this works. I think every American hopes this works. But it can't work beyond winning a few battles. & It has to be accompanied by progress on the political front."
The president has weathered the challenge in the Senate because of the filibuster. As long as he can hold more than 40 senators, he can stop the Senate from voting for a change in course," Clinton said. "But in the end, September will come and it won't be long."
On the topic of women in politics, the Washington Post devotes 5 pages to ten women in the House with children under 13 who are balancing careers with motherhood.
Traditionally, women run for federal office after they've raised children. The most prominent example is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was elected to Congress at 47, when the youngest of her five children was 16. So this new wave is "pretty extraordinary," said Cindy Simon Rosenthal, a political scientist at the University of Oklahoma who studies women in Congress.
The article is way too long, in my opinion, filled with too many mundane details. But, I thought this was interesting.
[T] he member moms say the longer, five-day workweek under Pelosi is a strain on family life. Instead of being in Washington two nights a week, lawmakers now spend four nights a week.
Pelosi, who declined to be interviewed, said through a spokesman, "I have the greatest respect and admiration for those in the House juggling the difficult job of raising their children and being a member of Congress. But creating a brighter future for all children . . . requires a more rigorous schedule than the two-day workweek we experienced under the Republican majority."
I never knew Congress had a two day work week under Republicans. Maybe that's why we're still trying to climb out of the mess they made.
I'm also not in favor of cutting back the work week to give House members more family time. They need to plug the time commitment into the equation when deciding whether to serve now or wait until they face fewer personal time constraints.
Media Matters has a round-up of the political gender stereotyping that's been going around.
