"Kos Just Kicked Some Ass on Hardball"

AmericanHope's Diary on Kos ("Tweety" is the nickname some use for Hardball's host, Chris Matthews):

I don't have a lot to say on this diary except to say that Kos just kicked some serious ass on hardball. Not "W" type kicking ass. Real ass kicking.

I know this is more of a comment than a diary. But I'm really proud of Kos today.

* AmericanHope's diary :: ::

Move the world, Kos!!(edit: transcript thanks to lesliet):

Tweety: Let me go to Markos Moulitsas. Sir, what did you make of the testimony today and the ad that ran in the Times this morning by your colleague here.?

Kos: Well to me, way out in California, it's almost amusing to see how in Washington DC everybody's all up in arms over an ad. You know, we're in the middle of this bloody war, almost 4000 dead, half a trillion dollars spent, and people are going to talk about how inappropriate an ad is? I think it's patently ridiculous. Most people outside this beltway environment really don't care about an ad. They want to see our mem and women coming home safe and sound to their families.

Tweety: What do you make of the Democrat's predicament. They took over Congress to end the war, but they're not ending the war. Markos?

Kos: It's frustrating. I can't fathom how a party that is on the right side of an issue, which is getting out of Iraq, with 60% of the or more public support and being on the right side of the morality scale still is afraid to move forward on this issue.
Tweety: Okay what would you do? You have a very important blog you're a very important person in the anti-war movement, Markos, so what would you have asked him?

Kos: I would have asked him quite simply where he got the numbers he cited.

Tweety: Particularly what number?

Kos: the number of casualities in the past three months. The ones Iraqi civilians are suffering

Is there an opportunity to create a political safe haven? That was the benchmark we were promised. Now they're changing the goalposts. We've heard this song and dance before.

Tweety: Why would a general in the field call for a reduction of 30,000 troops if that wasn't to meet some political ambition to keep the Republicans in line on Capitol Hill?... The army's always said they're undermanned. Why would they say we're not undermanned?

Kos: We've known from the beginning that the surge could not be sustained. This is something that the pentagon has said before, that under the best circumstances they still would have to have a drawdown by March of next year. Now they announce that as some sort of great marker of success when in fact this is something they had noted was logistically necessity.

Tweety: Well done, Markos, well done, because that's something that Colin Powell said a couple of months ago - I heard him say that - that there's gonna have to be this reduction in force anyway by the end of next spring and all he's doing is declaring that a policy.

Kos: Right. So this is not a marker of success, it's just reality and to me it's a little disturbing that the administration needs to spin all of this into some sort of case for the success of the war when the fact is that people have already given up. People have decided in overwhelming numbers, not just in the United States, but in Iraq as well, that they want the US home, people want them home, and they don't care if there's success at this point. It's irrelevant at this point. They want the troops home safe and sound with their families. I wore combat boots. I feel for these guys over there because I know what's it like to be away from family and friends for extended periods of time.

Tweety: I know, you served in the Marines... Let me tell you, you are Archimedes here. You found the lever and you are working it to move the world, sir. You are moving the Democratic Party. Thank you sir for joining us.