By Patrick J. BuchananNot since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers' U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing down like the one Barack Obama received from Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday.With this crucial difference. Khrushchev ranted behind closed doors, and when Ike refused to apologize, blew up the Paris Continue reading...
‘Bibi’ Votes Republican
Obama Blows up the Bridge
By Patrick J. Buchanan"Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells," said Rep. Paul Ryan, after listening to Barack Obama's scathing attack on his deficit reduction plan as a shredding of America's social contract with the elderly and poor.Ryan is right. Yet, with Obama's partisan savagery, virtually calling the GOP plan immoral, we have clarity.There will be no grand bipartisan Continue reading...
A GOP That Can Say No
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...
Cheney Shows the Way
By Patrick J. BuchananDick Cheney is giving the Republican Party a demonstration of how to fight a popular president. Stake out defensible high ground, do not surrender an inch, then go onto the attack.The ground on which Cheney has chosen to stand is the most defensible the Republicans have: homeland security. In seven-and-a-half years after 9-11, not one terrorist attack struck our Continue reading...
Wanted: A Fighting Party
By Patrick J. BuchananAs was evident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it is deja vu, 1961, all over again. We have a young, cool, witty, personable president -- and an adoring press corps."I am Barack Obama," the president introduced himself. "Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me. (Laughter and applause.) Apologies to the Fox table. (Laughter.)"What is also evident Continue reading...
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