By Patrick J. BuchananMocked by The Wall Street Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the "Lord of the Rings" books, the tea party "Hobbits" are indeed returning to Middle Earth -- to nail the coonskin to the wall.As even the Journal concedes, the final deal to raise the debt ceiling, worked out by Sen. Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, backed by Speaker John Boehner, is Continue reading...
The Day of the Hobbits
Tuesday - August 2, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Beijing, Debt, Deficit, GOP, John McCain, Martin Feldstein, Middle Earth, Propaganda, Ron Paul, Taxes, Tea Party, Wall Street
Is Obama Only Postponing the Inevitable?
Friday - June 24, 2011 at 1:15 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn deciding to pull all of the 30,000 troops from the surge out of Afghanistan, six weeks before Election Day 2012, but only 10,000 by year's end, President Obama has satisfied neither the generals nor the doves.He has, however, well served his political interests.A larger drawdown would have risked the gains made in Kandahar and Helmand and invited a revolt of Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain, NATO, Neocons, Taliban, United States, Vietnam, War
Manufacturing’s Dismal Decade
Friday - February 25, 2011 at 1:35 am
By Patrick J. BuchananLast year, Barack Obama committed his administration to doubling U.S. exports in half a decade.The good news: He is on the way. U.S. exports of goods and services grew in 2010 by 16.6 percent.Bad news: U.S. imports, starting from a higher base, surged by 19.7 percent.Result: The U.S. trade deficit in 2010 worsened by 33 percent, rising from $375 billion to Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: American Jobs, Barack Obama, China, Free Trade, John McCain, Manufacturing, Technology, Trade Deficit
Has Obama Lost White America?
Friday - January 22, 2010 at 1:00 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIf Republicans will study the returns from Massachusetts, then review the returns from Virginia and New Jersey, light will fall upon the path to victory over Barack Obama in 2012.Obama defeated John McCain by winning the black vote 24 to one, the Hispanic vote two to one and taking a larger share of the white vote, 44 percent, than did John Kerry or Al Gore. As the Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election, John McCain, Republicans
A GOP That Can Say No
Friday - August 7, 2009 at 1:45 am
by Patrick J. BuchananReports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature.Not since Sen. Bob Griffin derailed LBJ's scheme to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren with crony Abe Fortas, before Nixon got to the Oval Office, has the GOP defied this city and voted to reject a liberal judicial activist for the court.In 1970, after revelations of scandal forced Fortas to Continue reading...
Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democrat, George Bush, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Republican, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor
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