shake my head

from Dana Milbank:

It was one of those unnerving moments when you realize that our leaders don't have any better handle on events than the rest of us. Members of Congress send troops to war and spend trillions of dollars of the taxpayers' (and the Chinese government's) money -- and yet they seemed to base their positions on the Afghanistan war on what they'd read in the newspapers, watched on television or picked up from the Web. Seven years after authorizing an invasion of Iraq in search of phantom weapons of mass destruction, lawmakers are basing policy on the drip, drip, drip of WikiLeaks?