No good can come from this for the Republicans or the country: Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush. Former White House press secretary Dana Perino, former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie and former White House deputy press secretary Tony …
Archives for May 2009
Frum Gets It
Say what you will about David Frum’s New Majority (possible motto: “Same bad ideas, but with less hate!”), he certainly seems to understand something about Obama that the rest of the Republican party has not figured out: Let me add here a personal editorial comment. A large part of the secret of President Obama’s political …
Not likely
Reihan Salam is supposed to be one of those sane Republicans that we always hear about. This shows he is not: With Specter running in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary in 2010, Republicans have a perfect test case. There’s an excellent chance that a primary candidate from the Democratic left will give Specter a serious fight, opening …
Calling All Moderates
Michael Steele unveils the newest strategery: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appealed to the political middle Friday to join his party but added that the party itself wouldn’t moderate. “All you moderates out there, y’all come. I mean, that’s the message,” Steele said at a news conference. “The message of this party is this …
RIP, Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp died after a fight with cancer: Jack Kemp, the former football star turned congressman who with an evangelist’s fervor moved the Republican Party to a commitment to tax cuts as the central focus of economic policy, died Saturday evening at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 73. The cause was cancer, said …
Open Thread
Talk about squiffy and whatever else is on your mind.
Two People Who Did Not Agree On Much, Agreed On One Thing
Via two posts from Sullivan, I have learned that the two most successful interrogators and spybusters from WWII, one German and one British, never harmed an inmate. No German won as many intelligence coups as Hanns Scharff. Scharff worked for the Luftwaffe interrogating allied pilots and bomber crews, so successfully that the U.S. military taught …
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