John McCain is the media's favorite Republican. You will search in vain for a criticism of him by the mainstream media. So I was glad to read Peggy Noonan's article this morning (Mr. Narcissus Goes to Washington), which is not about McCain alone, but about those Republicans and Democrats who brokered the filibuster deal. Now both sides of the aisle have and will debate whether that deal was a good thing or a bad thing. But hopefully we can all agree that the hubris and the chest-thumping and the self-righteousness of these men was undignified, unbecoming, and disconcerting.
May the effect of reading it not be that we would gloat over their weakness and folly, but that we would commit in our own lives to rooting out pride and cultivating humility--which only comes by looking to Him who humbled himself on the cross for our salvation.
"This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word." (Isaiah 66:2)
