Dkos lays another Golden Egg

Kudos to diarist billmon. In my opinion, the writing is brilliant with incontestable content and a historical timelessness of the genius genre. Further, I feel the diary is held together with a masterful usage of the parenthesis.

Excerpt:
Same Verse, Third Refrain
Once again, the US enlargement lobby sprang into action. In February of last year, with the newly born Democratic Congress still waiving its little arms and spitting up mucus, Dick Lugar (the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) and Joe Biden (the committee’s nominally Democratic chairman) introduced the "NATO Freedom Consolidation Act". Like its predecessors, the bill authorized the President to immediately begin treating the Ukraine and Georgia as full-fledged NATO allies in all but name – with weapons sales, military advisors, etc. Senate cosponsors included Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Gordon Smith of Oregon, and, naturally, John McCain (R-POW).

Anatomy of A(nother) Fiasco
by billmon
Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 08:57:24 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/18/2337/96853/939/569608
As always,
BB