Ben Shapio has a curious piece up at the National Review, “The Two Theories of Trump’s Actions in the Ukraine Affair”, which I can only consider as an exercise in pre-emptive ass-covering. Shapiro, of course, has a reputation of being one of the hottest young conservative talking heads around—he’s bright, articulate, and quite capable of…
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Yo, Eli Lake! It isn’t “treason” to criticize the President! It’s treason to criticize Donald Trump!
Eli Lake often reminds of a man who kisses ass for a living yet insists on complaining about the farts. Eli gets paid by Michael Bloomberg to be, basically, the voice of the Likud, relentlessly advocating a “firm” U.S. position on just about every aspect of foreign affairs, a “U.S. and Israel against the world”…
Yo Republicans! That isn’t an elephant that just sh*t on your living room carpet! It’s a quid pro quo!
That’s right, Republicans. That big, fat, hairy, sweaty, smelly thing that’s in your living room right now, the one that weighs, you know, 25 tons, has bad breath, and makes a lot of noise? It’s not an elephant, or a rhino, or a hippo, or even a Paraceratherium.1 It’s a quid pro quo! Do you…
The ruin that is Trump: When F*ck You isn’t enough
Well, it isn’t. “F*ck You” hasn’t made the North Koreans play ball. Or the Iranians. Or the Chinese. Or even the Venezuelans. Telling the world what to do has proved a lot harder than Donald Trump imagined, and, frankly, the big guy is getting both frustrated and bored, and even a little worried. It’s “interesting”…
Donald Trump, so awful he scares Josh Rogin
How the time flies! It seems like it was just two days ago that Josh Rogin, perhaps the Washington Post’s most two-fistedest “Global Opinions” opinionator, was coming down hard on the Trump Administration for not providing Ukraine with, you know, “Javelin antitank missiles, anti-battery radar that can see into Russian territory, and state-of-the-art intelligence capabilities…
The “Blob” lives! At the New York Times!
As I understand it, all the cool kids at the White House (whose number, according to Ben Rhodes, is limited to President Obama and, well, Ben Rhodes) like to call the blinkered, myopic terminally self-righteous American foreign policy establishment “the Blob.” That said, if you’re up for some seriously blinkered self-righteous myopia, you ought to…
The Washington Post demands combat!
It’s time to get tough with Cuba! It’s time to get tough with Russia! It’s time to get tough with China! It’s time to get tough with North Korea! It’s time! It’s high time! That’s the rap over at the Washington Post editorial page, which is definitely cruisin’ for a bruisin’, and I mean a…
David Ignatius, stumbling reluctantly over the truth
Wash Post columnist David Ignatius is widely regarded as the mouthpiece of the Washington establishment. If it’s conventional wisdom you’re after, Dave is full of it. In a recent column, “NATO’s New Perils, Dave displays, rather despite himself, an awareness that past conventional wisdom is, shall we say, full of it as well. “The NATO…
Ukraine Cease-Fire Announced; John McCain Cries
Sure it’s tentative—after the negotiations concluded, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had a “glimmer of hope” that everything would work out as intended—but the announcement of both a cease-fire and a plan for making that cease-fire permanent must still be a heart-breaker for John McCain and his legions. The Great American War Machine was all dressed up for…
Joe Must Go!
Joe must go! Joe must go! Joe must go! Yes! It’s time for us to take Joe out! I mean, the man is evil! Let’s not just take him out, let’s take him down, six feet down in the cold, cold ground! Well, Josef Stalin was evil, and if any man deserved hanging, he did….