Charles Krauthammer, stuck in the unipolar nineties, blames the Brazil-Turkey nuclear deal with Iran on…wait for it, you’ll really be surprised…the Obama Administration. He uses the occasion to vamp on Obama for what he sees as American weakness across the board and, implicitly, calls for a return to the Bush era when we unsuccessfully tried [...]
Help Wanted: Director Of National Intelligence Responsibilities: Oversee a complex network of intelligence agencies in the U.S. government that do not report to you or want to be overseen by you. Deal with seemingly endless bureaucratic infighting, underscored by a rising frequency of threats on the homeland. Testify often before a petulant Congress that is [...]
Aided by “ayes” from Republicans Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, Senate Democrats succeeded in ending debate on financial regulatory reform by a 60-40 vote Thursday afternoon. Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell and Russ Feingold remained in opposition to the procedural motion, hoping to secure more time to consider amendments. The sweeping financial sector overhaul [...]
I thought I was through with my penguin suit for the year after the White House Correspondents Dinner/Time 100 celebrathon–and good riddance!–but I had to put it on again last night to pay tribute to General Chuck Boyd, who received the Eisenhower Medal from Business Executives for National Security. There were some very moving tributes [...]
The cover story in the next dead-tree issue of TIME is about Facebook – why it’s scary and taking over the world faster than you can say “status update.” A bit of hyperbole, but the story’s worth a full read. (Check your privacy settings, people.) It’s true that social networking and the implications of sharing [...]
Re Michael’s earlier post, pollster Glen Bolger has a slightly different take. Not contra anti-incumbenecy, but in tandem with it, he writes that the likes of Specter, Lincoln and Crist are victims of hyper-partisanship: The nomination defeats (or major troubles at this point for Lincoln), are politicians who were punished for their votes and efforts [...]
The latest–an update from Michael Scherer’s smart post below–is that Rand Paul is now saying that he regrets the appearance with Rachel Maddow, not the ridiculous statements he made in favor of a private business’s ability to discriminate according to race. I suspect that this will be the first of many such disasters for the [...]
On the Laura Ingram show Thursday, Rand Paul said that he would have supported the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and still supports it. Though he retains some concern over government dictating to business: (via Taegan Goddard)
Today, in the print magazine, David Von Drehle, lays out the surging fury that voters have been showing for political authority at the ballot box this year. The natives are restless. Americans of all persuasions at last agree on something. It is a message to their leaders that starts with F and ends with u. [...]
