AP out on a limb

Ok... So my purest attempt at towing the middle road on the.  Miers nomination was either a weak-kneed fence sitting foree or a good way to avoid a messy debate. Moving on...

That being said this AP piece is really too much. Take this paragraph:

The withdrawal stunned Washington on a day when the capital was awaiting potential bad news for the administration on another front -- the possible indictments of senior White House aides in the CIA leak case. Earlier in the week, the U.S. military death toll in Iraq hit 2,000.

That last sentence is choke full of axiomatic wonder... As if to say: "oh yeah, and by the way, 2000 soldiers have died for nothing in Iraq, but you knew that."