Amid Column Furor, The American Enterprise Institute Dismisses David Frum

On Sunday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted a blog post by David Frum, the former Bush Administration speechwriter, because Frum argued that health care reform would be the GOP’s “waterloo”–”their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.” On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal editorialized that Frum—”the media’s go-to basher of fellow Republicans”–was “peddling [...]

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On the choice facing Republicans in Florida…and nationally. And here’s David Frum on the same phenomenon in New York.

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The Republican Response

Last week I said that it would probably be best for Van Jones–who used to go around saying that he was a communist and then signed a “truther” petition–to resign his job as one of the President’s environmental advisers. Now, it seems, the Republicans have designated a former birther–that is, one of those paranoid nitwits [...]