a little bit pregnant, slightly dead

As is so often the case, the best long response to Jonathan Chait’s sad plea for attention is from Digby, while Atrios provides the short form.

Chait seems to be working overtime to make me all the more confident I was right to never take him seriously on Iraq, but I do have one question to add to Digby’s response. When Chait says, on Chris Matthews, that his proposal was “a little bit of hyperbole but I think there’s something to it,” what the hell is he talking about? Giving him a seat in parliament? Making him vice president? What? It seems to me that putting Saddam Hussein back in power is, much like the invasion and occupation, a good example of what we call an either/or proposition. Either one puts Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq or one doesn’t. But then I’m just a dirty hippie who opposed the war from the start, so what do I know?