Watchdogs Worry Over Future of Ethics Office
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 11th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Watchdogs Worry Over Future of Ethics Office
The Decider vs. The Agonizer
Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast
Presidents Bush and Obama both sat for interviews in the last few days. One was declarative. The other dithered. Howard Kurtz on how Obama is losing the left. The president shook his head.“Look, I’m not going to debate the issue,” he said. He had already decided.Waterboarding was legal. Why? “Because the lawyers said it was legal,” George W. Bush told Matt Lauer.
Election Losses Prompt Dems to Push Smaller Spending Bills
The Great Repudiation
James Ceaser, Claremont Review of Books
Facts speak for themselves. The Democratic Party under Barack Obama in 2010 suffered the greatest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since the Republican Party under Warren Gamaliel Harding in 1922. Democrats, at this writing, dropped 61 seats in the House of Representatives, where they will now be in the minority, and 6 seats in the Senate, where they will continue to hold a slight edge. The Democratic defeat was historic by other measures as well–in House seats lost in a congressional election (the most since 1948), and in House seats lost in any midterm (the most since…
Obama’s Iran Headache Throbs Anew
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
With the midterm election focused on jobs and the economy, President Obama had a holiday from foreign-policy headaches. Nothing says the holiday is over faster than a wake-up call about Iran's nuclear program.The call came from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned that, despite growing sanctions, there are zero signs the mad mullahs are backing off their quest for nukes.
