A few days ago, I wondered whether the events in Egypt would follow the path of Tiananmen in 1989 or Moscow in 1991. I feared Tiananmen, but that hasn’t happened. The passivity of the hollowed out Russian military in Red Square seems an unlikely path as well. The New York Times has a good piece [...]
Our esteemed colleague Michael Grunwald rides to Rand Paul’s defense: Of course he’ll take the usual Washington abuse for ignoring senatorial groupthink, but Paul was actually right to vote no. As the old saying goes: You don’t have to make a federal case of it. And I’ll out-extreme the extremist: States shouldn’t be legislating solutions [...]
From The White House Flickr page. Photo dated September 1, 2010.
Tonight at 11 pm eastern time Sarah Palin will give the keynote address at Young America’s Foundation’s celebration of the centenary of Reagan’s birth. Surely she will address events in Egypt. So where on the fragmented Republican foreign policy spectrum will Palin position herself? Neo-cons like Elliott Abrams have come out for Mubarak’s ouster, despite [...]
A friend emails noting Mike Allen’s “Playbook” mention today of David Edelman, who at 26 is “reputedly the youngest-EVER National Security Staff director.” I have no reason to think Edelman, whom I don’t know, is anything but superbly qualified for his job. But Allen’s observation does call to mind this great scene from the British [...]
Crowley wrote back in December: [The WikiLeaks cables] support the idea that Kerry has been an effective envoy for the Obama administration–a kind of utility player who can lay diplomatic groundwork for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or step into a crisis where other officials can’t–as when he assuaged an ornery Afghan president Hamid Karzai [...]
A big early test of the power dynamic within the new Republican Party will come this spring (or possibly in early June) when the U.S. runs out of borrowing authority and Congress will have to vote on whether to raise the federal debt limit. Some Tea Party-backed conservatives in Congress, many of whom ran have [...]
