Flotsam and Jetsam
A sharp observer has figured out how to cut through the Palestinian-Israel impasse. Someone else has figured out that George Mitchell was fibbing when he extolled all that progress in the non-peace...
View ArticleThe Biden-Hillary Switch: Don’t Scoff
Bob Woodward made news this week by asserting there is talk inside the Obama administration about saying goodbye to Joe Biden in 2012 and nominating Hillary Clinton in his stead as vice president for...
View ArticleMore on the Chamber of Commerce
I’m not sure we’ve ever had a White House press secretary like Robert Gibbs. His disdain for the media corps is only matched by his disdain for facts. On the unsubstantiated charges against the Chamber...
View ArticleAbuse of Power
It is astonishing, really. The president of the United States has accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, despite its denial and without supporting evidence, of illegally funneling foreign money into...
View ArticleStarstruck Clooney Misses the Point About Disastrous Sudan Policy
George Clooney’s visit to the White House yesterday sent the press corps into something like a swoon as press secretary Robert Gibbs cut short the daily press conference so all present could ogle the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Without Obama, the GOP could never have gotten this far, this fast: “Two weeks before Election Day, Democrats fear their grip on the House may be gone, and Republicans are poised to celebrate big gains...
View ArticleThat’s a Lot of Local Issues
In one of his least believable utterances, Robert Gibbs said the election wasn’t so much about Obama. It was about “local” issues. That’s preposterous, of course, given that this is arguably one of the...
View ArticleNOW, We’re (Not) Talking
Perhaps the Obama administration has finally lost its infatuation with engagement. This marks a step in the right direction and a departure from the Bush administration and the first two years of this...
View ArticleDems Feel Betrayed by Their Leader
According to Politico: Relations between President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have never been worse, but it’s a feud that many in the White House quietly welcome. Obama’s advisers insist...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When You Get Engulfed by a Wave
Today on Capitol Hill, the Democratic Party appears to have gone somewhat insane. The House Democratic Caucus voted to oppose the tax-cut deal struck between Barack Obama and Senate Republicans; it’s a...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
The Iraqi parliament finally approves a diverse new unity government, ending nine months of political stalemate and concern for the fledgling democracy: “Although Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds were...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
As Max Boot noted yesterday, the assassination of Salman Taseer highlights the rise of Islamic extremists in Pakistan, who have been gaining power in the country despite the fact that their views...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
As the GOP prepares to read the Constitution on the floor of the House this morning — in a nod to the new Tea Party members of Congress — Seth Lipsky discusses why the reading of the founding document...
View ArticleLiberals’ Civility Test
A week after President Obama’s stirring remarks at the Tucson memorial service comes an important Civility Test for liberals. ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports that Democratic Representative Steve Cohen went...
View ArticleThe White House Sort of Speaks
Robert Gibbs, the outgoing White House press spokesman, is not covering his departing head with glory as he speaks about the Egypt crisis. It’s certainly not Gibbs’s fault that the administration finds...
View ArticleObama’s Egypt Position Is Becoming Ridiculous
The corner that the Obama administration has boxed itself into on Egypt is growing increasingly cramped and awkward by the hour. As Leon Wieseltier noted at the New Republic website yesterday, the...
View ArticleLook Who’s Back at the White House
Who could have imagined, back in 2008, that President Obama would ask some of the most prominent neoconservatives from the Bush administration for foreign-policy advice just a few years later? Laura...
View ArticleJudgment Calls and the Muslim Brotherhood
On Monday, White House press spokesman Robert Gibbs said that any new government in Egypt “has to include a whole host of important non-secular actors that give Egypt a strong chance to continue to be...
View ArticleDC Gimmickry Is All Romney’s Fault
Seth Mandel wrote this morning regarding the Obama campaign letter to Romney offering not to ask for more if he releases five years’ worth of tax returns, “What the Obama campaign letter meant, of...
View ArticleRobert Gibbs’s Fuzzy Memory
It’s easy to imagine the Obama administration advisors and speechwriters who left the White House before the disastrous launch of ObamaCare grappling with a mix of guilt and relief as the bad press...
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