A Democrat by Any Other Name
In the final week of the campaign, the Democrats are reduced to a series of Hail Marys and a string of unbelievable claims, one wackier than the next. The campaign “suddenly” went south for them when...
View ArticleLiberal Echo Chamber
Obama has done what was seemingly impossible — he has lost David Brooks and made him into a scathing critic of the Democrats’ delusional thinking. A sample: Over the past year, many Democrats have...
View ArticleMoney’s Not the Dems’ Problem
The canard that the GOP is going to make off with the election because of Karl Rove or mysterious foreign money is not passing the laugh test. Politico reports: To hear top Democrats tell it, the party...
View ArticleAll the President’s Enemies
I had lunch yesterday with a long-time friend who is intelligent, well informed, and a life-long Democrat. In the course of our conversation I asked for his reaction to what the president said on...
View ArticleIs the Joke on Them?
David Brooks, in his online conversation with Gail Collins, observes of the upcoming rally by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart: By the way, I’m totally confused about what the political impact of...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: O’Donnell
Christine O’Donnell loses in Delaware. Will the conservative blogo- and Twittersphere apologize to Karl Rove and others who rightly said Christine O’Donnell was a preposterous candidate without a...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Perspective
Karl Rove makes the point that the average Senate pickup for the “out” party is 3. The GOP is on track to pick up 7 or 8. That is by any measure a huge pickup. Combined with a potential record number...
View ArticleThe Chronically Unserious Dana Milbank
Fox News has an unparalleled capacity to cause liberal journalists to say really stupid things. Take the case of the chronically unserious Dana Milbank. (Who can forget this moment?) In his Washington...
View ArticleRight and Left Agree: Obama Stands Pat
The right and the left have something in common: neither is impressed with the White House’s initial reaction to the GOP blowout. George Will writes: It is amazing the ingenuity Democrats invest in...
View ArticleMoney Doesn’t Buy You Love — or Votes
The Democrats’ favorite excuse in the waning days of the campaign was that foreign money was their undoing. Soon-to-be-ex-Speaker (yeah, wow) Nancy Pelosi said everything was going fine until the...
View ArticleDems and GOP Both Have Their Issues
Democrats and Republicans each have their problems. On the Democratic side, the head of the party cannot fathom that there is a link between his statist agenda (and the red ink and anemic growth that...
View ArticleNo Honor Among Pols
I am actually surprised it took this long. The Obama team has blamed foreign money, voter confusion, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, a dearth of “civility,” insufficient communication by the omnipresent...
View ArticleThe Delaware Lesson
Sen. Jim DeMint declared that Christine O’Donnell lost because Republicans “so maligned her … that she didn’t have a chance.” This is both self-serving and false. DeMint and Sarah Palin went to bat for...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Finally we get ”not only the authoritative takedown of ‘Fair Game,’ Douglas Liman’s meretricious cinematic hagiography of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, but also the essential case, laid out with...
View ArticleObama’s Not-So-Very-Good Week
David Brooks is not only an outstanding columnist; he’s also a friend. And so I want to register a friendly dissent with his column today. As Rick noted, David argues that Barack Obama ran for...
View ArticleSantorum’s Life With a Political Cannibal
Rick Santorum has enough problems these days with his gaffe insisting on English being the official language of Puerto Rico and the impact of his insistence on raising troubling social issues such as...
View ArticleObama’s Problem: Romney is Not Kerry
President Obama isn’t apologizing. Rather than backing away from discredited charges about Mitt Romney outsourcing jobs and attacks about his wealth, the president doubled down on the mud slinging in...
View ArticleFocus on Ideas, Not Just the Candidates
Some on the right are unhappy about the news that a group of major Republican donors led by former Bush strategist Karl Rove is organizing an effort called the Conservative Victory Project to fund...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Rove
In the aftermath of their presidential election defeat, many Republicans took out their frustration on Mitt Romney and his staff. Their manifold shortcomings and mistakes, both in terms of judgment and...
View ArticleCan Christie Win With the Bush Formula?
Chris Christie appeared at the recent meeting of the Republican National Committee in Boston to tell them about how his administration in New Jersey is a model for how Republicans can both govern and...
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