I have been in the past quite complimentary of Wash Post columnist Robert Samuelson. Well, I can’t take it all back because Bob often gets it right. But in this wretched post, “Defunding defense,” Bob gets it grossly and gratuitously wrong. It’s the “gratuitously” part that I can’t forgive, although the “grossly” part is, in…
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Alan Vanneman, eternally naïve
Yeah, it seems like it was only a week ago I was praising Ross Douthat for speaking intelligently about the situation in Ukraine. Well, that was then. Now Ross is on a roll, to wit: Is it really so ridiculous to believe that the Syria crisis confirmed certain impressions that Putin had already cultivated about…
The Usual Suspects
Daniel Larison gives them each a good spanking over at the American Conservative—William “Bill the Shill” Kristol, Peggy “Peggy the Shrill” Noonan, and George “George the Pill” Will, all hawkin’ and squawkin’ about the failure of President Obama to 1) make all the world’s problems go away with a wave of his hand (in the…
Another reason to laugh at Obama
At Politico Magazine, retired Foreign Service officer James Bruno notes that President Barack Obama, Mr. Googoo in Chief, has appointed a higher percentage of “cringeworthy” political hacks as ambassadors than his not terribly principled predecessors. While previous presidents filled about 35% of our embassies abroad with political pals of varied eminence, Obama has kicked it…
“The Ayatollah’s Disarming Wit”—because what’s funnier than a fatwa!
Roya Hakakian, a producer at 60 Minutes and author of Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, must be easily amused. Her column in yesterday’s New York Times, “The Ayatollah’s Disarming Wit,” claims that living under Iran’s theocratic regime, “more brutal than the one they overthrew in 1979,” is a barrel of laughs. Those ayatollahs! They’re wacky!…
David Ignatius: Yes, I’m an asshole! An asshole who wants to keep his job!
America’s allies are growing restless, David Ignatius warns. “Is President Obama an American version of Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader whose well-intentioned reforms led to the demise of his country’s global power? That’s the anxiety a traveler hears these days from worried U.S. allies, and it’s mirrored in a provocative new article.” Which American allies are…
George Will, pissy, prissy, and probably prescient
George Will—or “George F. Will,” as they like to call him at the Gabbing Geezer—when he isn’t sniffing and harrumphing over the “unraveling” of the Obama administration, sometimes gets it right. A case in point is a recent column on the administration’s recent agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program. After directing a variety of…
Obama Bubble? Nuh-uh
What’s Obama’s problem? The Wash Post’s Dana Milbank “explains”: In one account of what even administration officials acknowledge is a debacle, the Wall Street Journal reported that Obama’s policy advisers were aware long ago that the president’s promise that “if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it” wouldn’t hold up. “White House policy…
Dave Weigel now officially Chris Christie’s bitch
Over at Slate, Dave Weigel devotes about ten column inches to letting Chris Christie tell us how much black folks love him, followed by about three column feet about how Big Chris is going to stomp, stomp, stomp his hapless Democratic opponent into the ground. Which is surely, surely, surely true. But then Dave ends…
The Shame of the Obamacare rollout
Liberals like to think big. They like to think “comprehensive.” Whenever you read a liberal “big picture” plan, you will read thorough discussions of the various aspects of the problem to be solved, along with the appropriate solutions, and then you will get the kicker: you can’t address these problems separately; you have to do…