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HOPE SHE'LL GET A "THANK YOU" CARD FOR THAT. Via Eric Alterman's indispensable McCain Suck-Up Watch comes this bit from Anne Kornblut:
Commenting on Sen. John McCain's proposal to send more troops to Iraq, The New York Times' Anne Kornblut claimed that "McCain is proving that he is nothing if not an independent-minded maverick on this."Yikes. Look, McCain's plan may be very sincere, and very prescient, and totally likely to trigger Peak Pareto Pony Efficiency effects, but there's precisely nothing about it that proves him an "independent-minded maverick." His willingness to ignore the failure of a war he supported while advocating a useless alternative that's as unlikely to pass as it is to work is a dodge, not a profile in courage. --Ezra Klein
