One can be forgiven for the double take. Back during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was the one accusing John McCain of wanting to cut Medicare benefits for seniors–a claim that independent fact checkers called “false.” (McCain had proposed vaguely defined cost savings in Medicare, not benefit cuts.) Now everything is all reversed and upside [...]
Here’s the most comprehensive, and careful, report I’ve seen so far about the decisions the President has made on Afghanistan. My sense, from conversations with assorted Administration officials, that the big news not yet reported will have to do with time limits for the U.S. military presence–though not a fixed withdrawal schedule–that Obama will set [...]
Best punishment for the White House party-crashers and pathological fame-seekers whose names I refuse to mention: no cameras at the House Homeland Security Committee hearings at which they’ll testify on Thursday. Or make them testify behind a screen with their voices digitally altered. In a just and sane world, they would live out the rest [...]
