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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Diplomacy Or Propaganda Tool?

We’ve debated in the comments section of this very blog the issue: is President Bush’s refusal to embrace the Iraq Study Group’s proposal to allow Iran and Syria a voice in the future of Iraq, for example, stubborn unilateralism, or a canny avoidance of giving the fox a season pass to the hen house?
Now Barack […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, John Edwards, POTUS, Foreign Affairs, 2008 News, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates by Mark

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Bush Successful? Believe It…

George W. Bush, a successful president? So says William Kristol, and he’s right, in at least one area:
Let’s step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let’s look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Donkeys, Foreign Affairs by Mark

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The Libby Commutation: The Best Possible Outcome

It’s official: Scooter Libby will not go to prison.
President Bush today commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, sparing him the 30-month term to which he was sentenced last month for lying to federal investigators about his role in the White House leak of a CIA […]

30 Comments » - Posted in PlameGate, POTUS by Mark

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

A Massive Diplomatic Victory - And A Huge Win For All Mankind

North Korea is notorious for reneging on agreements, but if this sticks, it’s one of the biggest triumphs of the Bush Administration:
Pyongyang and Washington have agreed on a three-week timeframe for shutting down the North’s plutonium-producing reactor, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said Saturday after returning from a rare visit to the reclusive state.
Christopher Hill […]

2 Comments » - Posted in North Korea, POTUS by Mark

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

America - The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Discontented

Ever since Katrina, President Bush has been a bottom-dweller, popularity-wise, and a Newsweek poll out today confirms he is outperforming of late:
In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd […]

50 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys by Mark

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Jimmy Carter, FOE (Friend Of Extremists)

Everybody sing - all together now!
ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE ISLAMIC EXTREMISM A CHANCE!
The most disgraceful of former presidents sinks even lower:

The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US […]

17 Comments » - Posted in Israel, POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

Do you remember? I certainly do - it was twenty years ago today, and it wasn’t the day Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play - rather it was the day Ronald Reagan fired perhaps the most important rhetorical bullet of the Cold War. Electrifying then, electrifying now - it was a truly great moment […]

1 Comment » - Posted in POTUS, Foreign Affairs, In Praise Of by Mark

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

It’s All Over But The Face-Saving

Wolfowitz is all but out the door:
The World Bank’s executive board is negotiating the resignation of embattled President Paul D. Wolfowitz, senior bank officials said this afternoon.
The sources said that under the terms being discussed, Wolfowitz would step down, ending the ethics controversy that has consumed the bank for weeks, while the board would credit […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS by Mark

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Bush Promises To Veto New House Plan

The Democrats are still trying to find a way to placate the left without seeming unwilling to support the troops, and their latest proposal would pony up half of the needed war appropriations now and half in July, provided certain benchmarks are met. Bush is not having any of it:
President Bush would veto the new […]

No Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

That Just About Sums It Up

From President Bush’s address tonight:
Here’s why the bill Congress passed is unacceptable. First, the bill would mandate a rigid and artificial deadline for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq. That withdrawal could start as early as July 1st, and it would have to start no later than October 1st regardless of the situation on […]

17 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Election 2008 by Mark

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Exploding The “We Overreacted To 9/11″ Myth

Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has an absolutely essential piece in today’s Washington Post that takes on the foolish subset of (mostly liberal) Americans who somehow manage to come to the conclusion that there is no need for a war on terror:
As the rubble of the Twin Towers smoldered in 2001, no one […]

1 Comment » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Is Partition The Answer?

There of those of us who still believe in the idea of a united, democratic Iraq, though our hopes have been dashed time and time again and the remnants are fading. I never thought the idea of a partitioned Iraq was worth fighting and dying over. You can understand, then, my disappointment that it has come […]

22 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The Last Stand Of Alberto Gonzales?

The White House officially stands by their man, but behind the scenes, the prognosis is grim:
White House insiders tell CNN that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hurt himself during testimony before a Senate committee Thursday on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The sources, involved in administration discussions about Gonzales, told White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux that […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS by Mark

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Senator Levin: We Will Not Stop Funding The War

A Democratic senator with big-time influence and authority is quite publicly sending a message to Harry Reid and other Democrats who have thrown their lot in with the Nutroots®, and the message is this: we won’t stop funding for the war.
The Senate will not stop paying for the Iraq war nor relent from insisting that […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Harry Reid, POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Joe Klein’s Contentless Rant

Nothing is more disappointing than seeing a formerly reasonable person lose control of his senses. Joe Klein has always been a pretty calm oasis of sanity in the midst of the Bush Derangement Syndrome that has gripped much of the left, but I’m afraid I’ll have to start using the past tense after reading this piece:
From […]

4 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Iraq by Mark

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Are Pigs Flying?

The Wall Street Journal editorial board praises…Charlie Rangel??!!?? On trade???!!!???
Believe it:
How’s that bipartisan thing going in Washington? Not very well, despite those January promises. But Congress and the White House still have a chance to work together on something important–namely trade. The outcome may hang on who runs trade policy in the House: Charlie Rangel, […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Elephants, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Friday, March 30th, 2007

This Is Why People Distrust Old Media

Perfect example of an MSM storyline:
Five-and-a-half years after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush’s war on terrorism has emerged as a wasteful, misguided exercise that poses its own threat to U.S. national security, experts say.
Experts say? Not SOME experts, but experts? With no qualifier, I’m left to believe that ALL experts say the […]

16 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Good To See The President Can Still Laugh At Himself…

…after all he’s been through. From this year’s Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner:
“A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone,” President Bush said Wednesday night during the annual gathering.
“Ah,” he said, “those were the good ol’ days.”
In […]

No Comments » - Posted in POTUS, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

More On The Upcoming Veto

I don’t know what else to call it, since the Senate will apparently keep the withdrawal language, as we discussed below; basically, the Senate and House have voted for a veto. Fair enough, a veto they will get:
The Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next […]

3 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Iraq by Mark

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Sharpen Your Veto Pen

Senator Mitch McConnell, who has been nothing short of brilliant in outmanuevering his Democratic colleagues on Iraq thus far, in particular ‘Dirty’ Harry Reid, is signalling a temporary retreat on the language requiring troop withdrawals, predicting it will be in the supplemental funding bill that passes the Senate in the expectation that the President will […]