We Don’t Need Clint Eastwood
It’s now come to this. In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, President Obama said this: I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Elections have consequences: “The White House was slow to embrace the movement — so much so that protesters held up signs last year asking President Obama, ‘Are you with them or with us?’ Lately, Mr....
View ArticleThe Military vs. Obama
The news of the day is certainly Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s interview with Rolling Stone magazine and the potential fallout. Fox News reports: The article says that although McChrystal voted for Obama,...
View ArticleShould the General Be Called on the Carpet?
America’s top commander in the war in Afghanistan found himself in deep trouble this morning as the news spread about a profile in Rolling Stone magazine in which Gen. Stanley McChrystal and members of...
View ArticleThe Clown Show
The least controversial and most widely accepted comment in the Rolling Stone piece is this: One aide calls Jim Jones, a retired four-star general and veteran of the Cold War, a “clown” who remains...
View ArticleIt Is Certainly an Emergency
Politico has the scoop: Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in...
View ArticleA Game of JournoList Chicken
Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller is sitting in the catbird’s seat. He has reams of JournoList e-mails revealing how vicious the blogospheric left is. They wish their opponents dead (Rush Limbaugh)....
View ArticleFloyd Patterson, Call Your Office
In his remarks in Cleveland today, President Obama said so many things that are so misleading that it will take time to sort through the entire mess. But some claims — like “I’m committed to fiscal...
View ArticleGiving Too Much?
Minority Leader John Boehner was doing fairly well up to now in positioning his party for the election and shaping an agenda. He drew the White House into a spat in Ohio, called for the resignation of...
View ArticleThe Irresponsible Commander in Chief
The Washington Post is teasing the release of Bob Woodward’s newest book, Obama’s Wars, which focuses on the war in Afghanistan. Usually in Woodward’s offerings, those who cooperate with the author...
View ArticleUnpacking Bill Clinton’s Arguments
During the past week, former President Clinton has been granting a lot of interviews. In each of them, he is asked, in one form or another, what he would advise President Obama and Democrats to do...
View ArticleWhat’s Really Eating David Axelrod
In a New Republic cover story by Noam Scheiber, “What’s Really Eating David Axelrod? The Disillusionment of Obama’s Political Guru,” we are told this: Obama and Axelrod both believe in changing...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Door Hit You, Rahm
Rahm Emanuel is leaving, and American Jewish leaders couldn’t care less. In this regard, they have figured out who is running the U.S.-Israel policy (and hence, where the problem is): “A lot of people...
View ArticleThe Art of Discontent
Peter Baker, one of the nation’s finest and fairest political reporters, has written an illuminating story for the New York Times Magazine. “Education of a President” is based on interviews with Barack...
View ArticleDemocrats’ Tax Dilemma
Where are we on an extension of the Bush tax cuts? It’s hard to know, given that the Democrats have no game plan at this point: Obama favors renewing the tax cuts only for those at or below those...
View ArticleDebating the Middle East Debacle
Politico devotes part of its Arena discussion to Ben Smith’s compelling report on Obama’s Middle East blunders. What is interesting is that, aside from the executive director of the notoriously...
View ArticleA Most Curious Country It Is
Over at the Huffington Post, Sam Stein reports this: Hoping to build support for the tax-cut deal that the president reached with Congressional Republicans, the White House has begun pressing Hill...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Can Michael Steele actually win re-election as RNC chair? Chris Cilliza crunches the numbers and finds that the unpopular GOP official just doesn’t have the support: “In the most optimistic assessments...
View ArticleThe South’s Past Haunts Barbour’s Candidacy
Haley Barbour may be among the smartest men in contemporary politics, as well as one of the most able governors in the country. But there’s no denying that his potential presidential candidacy has...
View ArticleRep. Ackerman Throws J Street Under the Bus
Despite J Street’s eagerness to blame its “political enemies” for its public-relations troubles, all its image problems have been brought on by itself. Nobody forced the group the take money from...
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