Back in the day, back in 1987, when the facts of what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal first hit the fan, wide-eyed Reaganite Andy Sullivan was appalled. Ronald Reagan’s White House secretly sold weapons to Iranian terrorists and used the money to finance Nicaraguan “freedom fighters” (aka “terrorists”), an activity specifically banned by the…
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Krauthammer doubles to right
As the few who read this blog know, there are few people I dislike more than arch neo-con Charles Krauthammer. But, as a stopped clock is right twice a day, so Krauthammer is right twice a decade. In a recent column, he whales away mightily at President Obama’s Second Inaugural, accusing the President of “clinging…
President Obama really, really mean to Republicans, Krauthammer says
Yes, according to Charlie “K-Man” Krauthammer, President Obama is seeking to take advantage of the fact that the Republican Party is a fucked-up,* dysfunctional, morally compromised intellectual fraud in order to accomplish his own policy goals. Gee, and after the Republicans spent the last four years doing everything in their power to destroy him and…
George and Charles, high on pot
What else can explain it? Both George Will and Charles Krauthammer gave last night’s debate to Mr. Stupid, Barack Obama. George, who may have gone a round or two with Snow White earlier in the evening, said it was the best presidential debate he’d ever seen. Charles, who may have borrowed Marion Barry’s crack pipe,…
Charles to Rick: You’re embarrassing me!
Hear that moanin’? It’s right-wing intellectuals, a-wishin’ and a-hopin’ that someone other than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney would run for president.* “I would hope that whoever the Republican candidate is, he or she will not tell us that creationism or intelligent design is the equivalent of evolution — just another theory about the origins…
Krauthammer doubles to left
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility to Charles Krauthammer, but in today’s column the good doctor punches a two-bagger right between my legs, politely explaining to liberals just why paying doctors to provide end-of-life counseling to patients might tend to piss off the “pro-life” crowd, something that might have been foreseen…
Yo, New York Times! Want to know who started the War in Iraq? Look in the goddamn mirror!
20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?, rumbles “Interpreter” (that’s what they call him) Max Fisher, subjecting us to a shitload of obscurantist chin-stroking before reaching an all too convenient non-answer/confession of ignorance, topping off this banal exercise in disingenuosity with this laughable quote as a closer: “I will…
The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party? Part II Part 2: Matthew Continetti and The Right
A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
“Farewell” to the American Empire? GOOD RIDDANCE!
“Decline is a choice!” bellowed the late Charles Krauthammer back in the day, livid (to say the least) that that pantywaist in the White House hadn’t yet bombed the hell out of whomever Charles felt needed such treatment. And his spiritual children, the Trump-battered nextgen neocons at the Dispatch and the Bulwark are continuing to…
The Afghan War Was So Bad, It’s Giving Mindless Interventionism A Bad Name! Go Figure!
Is Satan breaking out his ice skates? He damn well ought to be, because David “Never Met a War I Didn’t Want Someone Else to Fight” Ignatius is—wait for it—admitting that he was—wait for it, goddamn it, wait for it!—wrong about U.S. intervention in Afghanistan! The structure of the Kabul government has been rotting from…