I am often not a fan of the Washington Post, but, well, May 22nd was an unusual day, a day on which Post reporters Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung lowered the boom on David “Lover Boy” Petraeus, explaining how Dave’s “toot your horn/cover your ass” approach to congressional relations helped create a monumental PR headache for the not…
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Obama Woes, and how the Republicans never fail to remind us that they would only make things worse
President Obama, if he isn’t looking mortal, is at least looking awkward these days. The current “triple scandal” will, I think, end up costing the President little, but it does give the Republicans something to yell about, and yelling to no effect is what the current crop of Republicans does best. The Administration’s handling of…
Benghazi Badinage
The guy who gets it right: Ron Paul, denouncing Republicans for denouncing Obama for the wrong reasons. Republicans denounce Obama for not being aggressive enough, when, as Paul points out, our problems arise from the fact that Obama was too aggressive, waging an unnecessary, unconstitutional war in Libya, a war in which the Republican Party entirely acquiesced….
The Hagel Hassle: Everybody wins? I don’t fucking think so
Dave Weigel, who raps for Slate these days, is one of my favorites, but he comes a cropper with his too clever to be accurate take on the failure of Senate Democrats to force a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. According to Dave, it’s win/win/win/win. Republicans get to act tough, Likudist…
How’s that “Party of Death” thing working out for you, Ramesh?
Over at the National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru has gotten a lot of well-deserved praise for his truth-telling regarding the latest Republican debacle, pointing out that, among other things, the Republicans have lost the popular vote in the past five of six presidential elections (after winning five of six in the post-Vietnam era), that they would…
Terrorism never prosper, what’s the reason? If it pass out enough money to the right people, and help murder the “wrong” people, none dare call it terrorism.
Daniel Larison and Glenn Greenwald have long been on the trail of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (“Warriors of God”), or MEK, a terrorist group that now is no longer a terrorist group, thanks to a little magic wand waving by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. MEK has long been supported by “pay me enough money and I’ll…
George Will, tying himself in knots, yet failing to score a touchdown
I find myself agreeing with George Will more often than I like. We are a one on free trade, for example, as well as campaign “reform” (aka incumbent protection and First Amendment reduction). I also admire his early criticism of President Obama’s decision to expand the war in Afghanistan, although his massive silence on civil…
Not stranger than fiction, but worse
Joe Biden, whom I’ve tagged so frequently as the dumbest man in Washington that I’ve gotten tired of it, isn’t listening to me or Osama bin Laden.* Joe, who may perhaps be forgiven for believing that he wouldn’t be worse than either Obama or Mitt Romney, “has quietly assembled an A-team of advisers who would,…
It was a slam dunk! An upside-down slam dunk!
Was the Bush Admninistration’s invasion of Iraq based on faulty intelligence? No, says Paul R. Pillar, deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 1997 to 1999, writing in Foreign Policy online. It was executed in the face of correct intelligence, to wit: “Had Bush read the intelligence community’s report [issued in October 2002], he…
Donald Rumsfeld’s head: It’s Alive!
Last week I ended a post on the imminent (well, end of the year) withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with a melodramatic flourish, comparing the U.S embassy in Iraq to an empty skull staring out across the desert sands with sightless eyes—the idea being that the embassy, built by the Bush Administration at the…