FREDO GETTING DESPERATE

He's as unpopular as the Iraq War, so what to do?

First, meet with the war whore radio gasbags. Second, meet with mil-bloggers who support you, like BlackFive and Mudville Gazette. Now, I learn from Crooks & Liars that the third step was meeting with print war whores:

Michael Barone (U.S. News), Tony Blankley (Washington Times), David Brooks (New York Times), Ron Kessler (NewsMax), Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Larry Kudlow (CNBC), Morton Kondracke (Roll Call), Kimberly Strassel (Wall Street Journal), Kathryn Lopez and Kate O’Beirne (National Review).

Froomkin shares some of Kondracke's observations:

Morton M. Kondracke writes in Roll Call (subscription required): "Bush may be a lame duck. And he showed he knows that his credibility is low. He said, 'People listen to Petraeus, not to me.' Still, like Frank Sinatra in what became his signature song, Bush seems determined to go out doing it 'My Way.'"