The Gospel according to Obama
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
WASHINGTON --
President Obama's assertion at the National Prayer Breakfast that his policy of raising taxes on the rich "coincides with Jesus' teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'"
Syria: It’s not just about freedom
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The fate of the Assad regime in Syria is highly important not only for reasons of democracy and human rights—but also for geopolitics.
State of the Union comes out as big flop
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
WASHINGTON --
President Obama's State of the Union address was "small ball."
The GOP suicide march
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
WASHINGTON --
If you can't run on stewardship or policy, how do you win re-election? Create an entirely new narrative. Push an entirely new issue. Change the subject from your record and your ideology, from massive debt and overreaching government, to fairness and inequality. Make the election a referendum on which party really cares about you, which party will stand up to the rich whose greed and recklessness has pillaged the 99 percent and robbed the middle class of hope.
Ron Paul’s remarkable achievement
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 13, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Ron Paul is less a candidate than a "cause," to cite his election-night New Hampshire speech. Which is why that speech was the only one by a losing candidate that was genuinely, almost giddily joyous. The other candidates had to pretend they were happy with their results.
A worthy challenger
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Jan. 6, 2012
WASHINGTON --
With his virtual tie with Mitt Romney in Iowa, Rick Santorum sheds the loser label. He also seizes the momentum, meaning millions of dollars worth of free media to make up for his lack of money. He's got the stage to make his case, plus the luck of a scheduling quirk: If he can make it through the next three harrowing primaries, the coming (relative) lull in February would allow him to build a national campaign structure before Super Tuesday on March 6.
Are we alone in the universe?
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 30, 2011
WASHINGTON -- A silent universe is conveying not a flattering lesson about Earth's uniqueness but a tragic story about our destiny. It is telling us that intelligence may be the most cursed faculty in the entire universe—an endowment not just ultimately fatal but, on the scale of cosmic time, near instantly so.
Payroll tax debate is debacle for GOP
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 23, 2011
WASHINGTON --
The tax-holiday extension—presumably to be negotiated next year into a 12-month extension—is the perfect campaign ploy: an election-year bribe that has the additional virtue of seizing the tax issue for the Democrats.
The wages of appeasement
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 16, 2011
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's two major foreign-policy initiatives—toward Russia and Iran—fall far short of what we need.
Pro: Reasonable reforms can provide fair fees for physicians and ensure patients receive quality treatment
By REP. TOM PRICE - Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
ROSWELL, GA. -- If fewer and fewer physicians are able to participate in Medicare because of regulations and low reimbursement, the promise of Medicare and the health of our nation will be compromised.
Obama’s campaign for class resentment
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 9, 2011
WASHINGTON --
In his Kansas speech, President Obama noted how heartbreaking it is that millions "are now forced to take their children to food banks." You have to admire the audacity. That's the kind of damning observation the opposition brings up when you've been in office three years. Yet Obama summoned it to make the case for his re-election.
Mitt vs. Newt
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Dec. 2, 2011
WASHINGTON --
So who is Mitt Romney? A center-right, classic Northeastern Republican who, over time, has adopted the quite specific, quite bold and thoroughly conservative platform. Nevertheless the party base, promiscuously pursuing serial suitors-of-the-month, considers him ideologically unreliable. Hence the current ardor for Newt Gingrich.
Facts expose Norquist myth
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Nov. 25, 2011
WASHINGTON --
Why does the myth of the Grover Norquist-controlled anti-tax monolith persist? You might suggest cynicism and perversity. There is a more benign explanation: thickheadedness. Critics can’t tell the difference between tax revenues and tax rates.
The pipeline sellout
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Nov. 18, 2011
WASHINGTON --
What do you do when you say you can, but, turns out, you can’t? Blame the other guy. Charge the Republicans with making governing impossible. Never mind that you had full control of the Congress for two-thirds of your current tenure. It's the fault of Republican rejectionism, nay nihilism. Hence President Obama's new motto: "We Can't Wait."
Split decision by voters suggests politics remain cyclical
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Nov. 11, 2011
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Ohio was the bellwether. Voters decisively voted down the Republicans’ newly enacted, Wisconsin-like rollback of public-sector workers’ benefits and bargaining rights.
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