Author Archives: Washington Post
It’s nonsense to say the U.S. is ungovernable
It turned out that the country’s problems were not problems of structure but of leadership. Reagan and Clinton had it. Carter didn’t. Under a president with extensive executive experience, good political skills and an ideological compass in tune with the public, the country was indeed governable. Continue reading
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Fox wars
The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies list Continue reading
Obama's French Lesson
When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Continue reading
Posted in foreign affairs
Tagged charles krauthammer, foreign policy, france, iran, nuclear weapons, obama, sarkozy
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A Ripe Time For Florida's Marco Rubio
Leading national Republicans rushed to endorse Crist. In tennis, such decisions are called unforced errors. Continue reading
Time to Act Like a President
Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief. Continue reading
Where's the Party of Ideas?
Where now is the intellectual center of gravity — the thrill of innovation, the ideological momentum — in American politics? Not in the party of Obama. Continue reading
