KRISTOL, WEEK 2….This week, in an apparent effort to make phoning it in look good, freshman New York Times columnist Bill Kristol tells us that the surge is teh awesome. Now that’s fresh copy. I guess I was dead wrong about Kristol being a safe, predictable, boring choice for the Times op-ed page.

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