June 5, 2014
One Innocuous Tweet And All Hell Breaks Loose
I make one innocuous tweet, and all Hell breaks loose. As it became clear that Chris McDaniel and Thad Cochran were heading for a run-off and that slightly more Republican primary voters picked McDaniel over Cochran, I tweeted this: “I...
June 4, 2014
The Moment Obama Lost the Senate?
Originally posted in WSJ The pen and the phone were the first clues that the president had already given up on his Senate majority....
June 3, 2014
Carney Quits
Last Friday, Jay Carney announced he was leaving the White House. Under difficult circumstances, I thought he did a pretty good job....
June 2, 2014
Don’t Do Stupid Shit
According the news reports, President Obama has come up with a simple way to describe his foreign policy philosophy: Don’t do stupid shit. It’s clever, in a Clintonian “it’s the economy stupid,” kind of way, but unfortunately for the President,...
May 30, 2014
Shinseki Resigns
To be clear, the reason that Eric Shinseki resigned was because of political panic on the left, not the right. It was Democrats who were up for re-election in tough states who were most vociferous in their demands for Shinseki’s...
May 29, 2014
Obama’s West Point Speech
The substance of the President’s speech at West Point was fine, I suppose, although a CNN reporter said that he got an icy reception from the audience. The problem is never with Mr. Obama’s words. The problem is with his...