. . . I was having a conversation with some other bloggers about the Levin-Lieberman lovefest leading us closer and closer to war:

Right after Sen. Lieberman voted against U.S. troops on the Webb amendment, he launched his new Iran Amendment – cosponsored by pals Kyl, Graham, Collins and Sessions with strong support by McCain – and Senator Levin could not fall over himself fast enough to display his love of his big pal from CT. Watch here – but prepare yourself – it will test your gag reflex mightily. . . This gist of the amendment: It is the sense of the senate that Iran is participating in acts of war against the United States.

And Atrios said something that is unsettling in the extreme but all too possible:

"How could you not support military action against a country committing acts of war against the United States?"

-Every single conservative and Republican in the weeks before the Iran AUMF vote.

The Senate just helped enable this president to attack Iran. If our august Senate has the sense that Iran is participating in acts of war, how far are they away from granting this president an AUMF? Not far if you ask me. It's damn near impossible to climb down from a claim like that. It's insane what the Senate is doing. And Atrios has this one pegged. That's how it'll go down, no doubt about it.