Dick Cheney’s Chutzpah
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 20th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Dick Cheney’s Chutzpah
E.J. Dionne, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The infinitely valuable Yiddish word “chutzpah” is defined as “shameless audacity” or “impudence.” It’s singularly appropriate for the astonishing op-ed piece that former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. It’s not every day that a leader of the previous administration suggests that the current president is a “fool” and accuses him of intentionally weakening the United States. “President Obama seems determined to leave office ensuring he has taken America down a notch,” the Cheneys write. Are they charging our…
Deportrix in Chief
Debra Saunders, RealClearPolitics
“We have to send a clear message. Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay. So we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.” Who said that on CNN on Tuesday? Anti-amnesty Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas? Quick-draw Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona? No. That was Hillary Clinton, who was flogging her new book, “Hard Choices,” during a town hall meeting moderated by Christiane Amanpour. After an audience member lambasted President Barack Obama as the nation’s…
Bombing Won’t Save Iraq
Pat Buchanan, RealClearPolitics
The panic that engulfed this capital after the fall of Mosul, when it appeared that the Islamist fanatics of ISIS would overrun Baghdad, has passed. And the second thoughts have begun. “U.S. Sees Risk in Iraqi Airstrikes,” ran the June 19 headline in the Washington Post, “Military Warns of Dangerous Complications.” This is welcome news. For if it is an unwritten rule of republics not to commit to war unless the nation is united, America has never been less prepared for a Mideast war. Our commander in chief is a reluctant warrior who wants his legacy to be ending our two longest wars. And just…
