"Something that looks an awful lot like democracy is beginning to take hold in Iraq."
So says Newsweek:
Bush's rhetoric about democracy came to sound as bitterly ironic as his pumped-up appearance on an aircraft carrier a few months earlier, in front of an enormous banner that declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. And yet it has to be said and it should be understood—now, almost seven hellish years later—that something that looks mighty [...]
The Unbearable Slightness of Being Joe Klein
In Time Magazine, Joe Klein has a very eccentric response to the health-care summit:
[T]he tea leaves seem to indicate that Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans.
That’s… unique. How does Klein score the “debate” to get that result?
[T]he President talked a lot — actually, the President, the Congressional Democrats and Republicans each spoke [...]
CBO says Obama health ‘plan’ too vague to analyze
Isn’t this about what we expect out of Barack Obama, as in all rhetoric and flair but with little substance?
Via The Washington Times:
President Obama said he would put out a full bill ahead of Thursday’s highly touted bipartisan health summit, but what he released on Monday is so bare-bones that the Congressional Budget Office said [...]
Putting Washington at the Service of the Middle Class
In his State of the Union Address tonight, the President laid out an agenda attempting to attack one problem from every conceivable angle: the terrible squeeze felt by America’s middle class. Fundamentally, that means prying government away from special interests and dedicating it to measures that put Americans to work and lay the foundation for [...]
Harry Reid and Trent Lott — a specious comparison
Michael Steele was on the Sunday news programs comparing the reaction to Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama — “light-skinned” and with “no Negro dialect unless he want[s] to have one” — to the comments that got Trent Lott in trouble. Back in 2002, during a birthday celebration for Strom Thurmond, Lott spoke favorably [...]
The limits of self-reference
President Obama responded yesterday to former Vice President Cheney’s claim that he doesn’t consider the fight against terrorism to be a war by quoting from his inaugural address. “On that day,” Obama reminded us, “I made it very clear that our naton is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred, [...]
