McCain's Waning Masochism

The Arizona senator finally tells the truth:

"The president listened too much to the Vice President ... Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the Vice President and, most of all, the Secretary of Defense ... Rumsfeld will go down in history, along with McNamara, as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history."

This will now become the official Republican defense of Bush (someone tell Hewitt): that he was done in by Cheney and Rumsfeld, despite the fact that he chose Cheney and Rumsfeld and could have removed either at various points in his presidency. That's the best defense they've got now. Just in time for the SOTU.