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Inside Politics
Thursday, July 9, 2009
"What's odd is that when the stimulus bill was under consideration, the president said there was no time for a real debate. Why the need for speed if the bill wouldn't begin to take effect for months? This seemed like a rhetorical trick designed to deflect criticism from what was a questionable bill," Jay Cost writes in a blog at www.realclearpolitics.com.
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Inside Politics
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
"Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said that 'in preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.' Robert S. McNamara, who spent many years thinking about the Vietnam War, first as an architect and then as a critic (and getting it wrong on both ends), was a man who believed mainly in plans," Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Inside Politics
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
"Last week, we discovered that the state of California will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," <strong>Kevin Hassett</strong> writes at www.bloomberg.com, borrowing a line from the Wimpy character in the Popeye cartoons.
Inside Politics
Monday, July 6, 2009
"Having witnessed the anarchy, chaos and lack of leadership that has engulfed the [New York] state Capitol during the past month, I have a painful confession to make," New York Post Albany Bureau Chief Fredric U. Dicker writes.
Inside Politics
Friday, July 3, 2009
"The rubber hit the road in Congress last Friday, but it wasn't a transportation bill or a car-company bailout. It was the House vote on 'climate change,' which would still be known as 'global warming' if average temperatures had not inconveniently failed to go up over the past 11 years," former Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Inside Politics
Thursday, July 2, 2009
"Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a political issue," Dick Morris writes in the Hill newspaper.
Inside Politics
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
"For a president who came into office literally selling the Audacity of Hope - not just for Americans but for all mankind - his Iran policy can so far be summed up as the timidity of 'realism.' That's realism as a theory of international relations that prescribes a foreign policy based on ostensibly rational calculations of the national interest and assumes that other nations act in similarly rational fashion," Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Inside Politics
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Hugo Chavez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback [Sunday] when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution," Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes.
Inside Politics
Friday, June 19, 2009
"We're hearing that South Dakota Sen. John Thune has locked up support to replace Sen. John Ensign as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee," Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column at usnews.com.
Inside Politics
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech on Sunday, "in which he reversed his long-standing position on Palestine and said he would be willing to work toward the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, has met with almost no opposition in Israel," Meyrav Wurmser writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).