Brit Hume delivers a richly deserved smackdown to John "Okinawa" Murtha.

How bad a job is Murtha doing? How obviously defeatist is he? Even the Democrats’ house organ has slammed him. As Glenn Reynolds writes, “Murtha is the face of today's Democratic Party on the war. This is bad for the country, and likely to prove unwise politically”.

Meanwhile, Dean Barnett reminds us that sadly, Murtha's symptoms are spreading beyond his own party. Fortunately, an excellent tonic has arrived, and just in time.