September 10, 2007 8:09 AM

MoveOn Steps Up

For anyone who thinks:
- Congressional hearings are boring
- War opponents will be timid on the Hill this week
- Mondays are sleepy and sluggish starts to the week

...MoveOn is about to challenge your assumptions. Because there is nothing boring, timid or sleepy about their latest campaign: to anticipate the testimony that begins today about Iraq.

They ran this ad in today's New York Times, and they'll take heat for it. But for anyone who has been made nervous/wary/angry by the news that the White House was planning on writing the General's report, then that the General's report wouldn't be written down at all, by the insistence that "things are going well" despite all evidence to the contrary, and by the gradual recognition that Petraeus may have his own political loyalties...well, for all of us, there's something that rings true in this ad...and something that makes us all happy to know that there are other groups willing to say it.