This is the best they can do?

The new “conservative” op-ed columnist for The New York Times, Ross Douthat, begins his first column.

Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.

And people always said the Times didn’t have comics.