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Contradicting his colleague Jim Miklaszewski, NBC's White House correspondent David Gregory saw no status quo in Petraeus' plan. Instead his testimony "marks the start of a new phase of the war debate…the debate about how to end the war." George Bush, who plans a televised address to the nation, "is preparing to ask the country to take a fresh look at the war." Gregory was not only at odds with Miklaszewski but also with the Sunday morning talkshow hosts from NBC's rival networks. George Stephanopoulos of ABC's This Week characterized the politics of Petraeus' testimony as preventing "wholesale Republican defections" from the White House's current course: "He has not changed the minds of Democrats." And Bob Schieffer of CBS' Face the Nation noted that Democrats do not have enough votes to force Bush's hand: "From the President's point of view what is significant today is that the general gave Republicans who are still with the President an excuse to stay with him."
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