Myth of '08 is demolished
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
WASHINGTON --
The most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.
Obama has used up his ‘three envelopes’
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's compulsion to attack his predecessor is as stale as it is unseemly. Obama was elected a year ago. He became commander in chief two months later. He then solemnly announced his own “comprehensive new strategy” for Afghanistan seven months ago. And it was not an off-the-cuff decision.
Obama frets, agonizes over Afghanistan
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
WASHINGTON --
So what do Democrats' commander in chief do now with the war he once declared had to be won but had been almost criminally under-resourced by Bush? Perhaps provide the resources to win it? You would think so.
Obama’s French lesson
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Confusing ends and means, the Obama administration strives mightily for shows of allied unity, good feeling and pious concern about Iran’s nuclear program—whereas the real objective is stopping that program.
A great good man
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The wonder of Irving Kristol was that he combined this lack of sentimentality with a genuine generosity of spirit. He was a deeply good man who disdained shows of goodness, deflecting expressions of gratitude or admiration with a disarming charm and an irresistible smile.
Obama doesn’t lie; he implies, misdirects, misleads
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Obama doesn’t lie. He merely elides, gliding from one dubious assertion to another. This has been the story throughout his whole health care crusade.
Van Jones matter indeed matters
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
WASHINGTON --
You can’t sign a petition demanding not one but four investigations of the charge that the Bush administration deliberately allowed 9/11—i.e., collaborated in the worst massacre ever perpetrated on American soil—and be permitted in polite society, let alone have a high-level job in the White House.
Obama is a mere mortal
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous.
Obamacare is only exit strategy
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
WASHINGTON --
You don’t need a Ph.D. to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting health care is a fiction. But there is an exit strategy. And a politically clever one, if Democrats are smart enough to seize it.
Let’s be honest about death counseling
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Aug. 21, 2009
WASHINGTON -- What do you think an end-of-life chat would be like? Do you think the doctor will go on and on about the fantastic new million-dollar high-tech gizmo that can prolong the patient’s otherwise hopeless condition for another six months? Or do you think he’s going to talk about—as the bill specifically spells out—hospice care and palliative care and other ways of letting go of life?
Preventive care won’t save cash
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Aug. 14, 2009
WASHINGTON --
The idea that prevention is somehow intrinsically economically different from treatment—that treatment increases costs and prevention lowers them—is simply nonsense.
Health care reform: A better plan
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Aug. 7, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Here's my health care alternative: Strip away current inefficiencies before remaking one-sixth of the U.S. economy. The plan is so simple it doesn’t even have the requisite three parts. Just two: radical tort reform and radically severing the link between health insurance and employment.
Obamacare: No Waterloo, rather a tactical retreat
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Yes, Obama’s aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year’s end he will emerge with something he can call health care reform. The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they’ll have slain their own savior in his first year in office.
Why Obamacare is sinking
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 24, 2009
WASHINGTON -- What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more coverage, less cost.
The moon we forgot
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 17, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. We say we will return in 2020. But that promise was made by a previous president, and this president has defined himself as the anti-matter to George Bush. Moreover, for all Obama’s Kennedyesque qualities, he has expressed none of Kennedy’s enthusiasm for human space exploration.
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