Billmon: Getting Traction

If the idea behind today's DSM hearing was to give the media a fresh news hook to talk about the memo and put pressure on the White House to respond, then I guess I'd say mission accomplished."

For whatever reason (and contrary to my original pessimism) the story seems to be growing legs. I particularly liked this lead from -- of all places -- yesterday's Star & Stripes:

Several parents of soldiers killed in Iraq visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ask for congressional hearings on the Downing Street memo, which one mother called President Bush’s “Watergate.”

It will be interesting to see if the White House and the Republicans continue their "deaf, dumb and blind" PR response -- or rather, lack of response -- or whether they will shift to "slime and defend" mode.