Lots of Democrats are criticizing The Surge, but I was struck by this from Steny Hoyer, not exactly a militant anti-war activist and the man who will be the Democrats' majority leader:

"If he goes forward with the idea presumably it means he thinks it will have a positive effect," said incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat.

"But of course the president has been almost uniformly wrong on what his premise is, of what his actions in Iraq were going to result in, whether it is cost or success, stabilization, support, sectarian violence," Hoyer said. "You name it, their observations have been wrong."