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.
Plumage comes at a risky price
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 10, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama says that his teaty with Russia will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama’s intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension.
The meaning of Ricci
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 3, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case left Sonia Sotomayor relatively unscathed. But not affirmative action. Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group.
Iran: Desperately seeking Yeltsin
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 26, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Right now the Iranian revolution has no leader. As this is written, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has not appeared in public since June 18. And the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime has shown the requisite efficiency and ruthlessness at suppressing widespread unrest. Their brutality has been deployed intelligently.
Hope and change doesn’t include Iran
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 19, 2009
WASHINGTON --
This incipient revolution in Iran is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren’t dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators.
Hovering on high: Obama surveys world
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 12, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Traveling the world, President Obama brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance. We have all sinned against each other. We must now look beyond that and walk together to the sunny uplands of comity and understanding. He shall guide you.
Obama only reinforces the Palestinian myth
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 5, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that. Instead, among all the bromides and lofty sentiments, he issued but one concrete declaration of new American policy: “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
Sotomayor: Criticize, then confirm
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 29, 2009
WASHINGTON --
What should a principled conservative do? Use the upcoming hearings not to deny Sonia Sotomayor her Supreme Court seat, but to illuminate her views. No magazine gossip from anonymous court clerks. No “temperament” insinuations. Nothing ad hominem. The argument should be elevated, respectful and entirely about judicial philosophy.
Obama in Bush clothing: America fights on
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 22, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.
The torture debate, continued
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 15, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The fact that Pelosi and dozens of other members of Congress knew about the enhanced interrogation and said nothing, and did nothing to cut off the funding, tells us something very important.
Hamas offers ‘peace’ gambit
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 8, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The offer is not a peace but a truce that expires after 10 years. Meaning that after Israel has fatally weakened itself by settling millions of hostile Arab refugees in its midst, and after a decade of Hamas arming itself within a Palestinian state that narrows Israel to eight miles wide—Hamas restarts the war against a country it remains pledged to eradicate.
Torture? No, except…
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 1, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The time to protest torture, if you really are as outraged as you now pretend to be, is when the CIA tells you what it is planning to do “in the future.” But Nancy Pelosi did nothing.
Obama strategy doesn’t add up
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 24, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Not even a carbon tax would pay for Obama’s vastly expanded welfare state. Nor will Midwest Democrats stand for a tax that would devastate their already crumbling region.
The sting, in four parts
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 17, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Barack Obama offered his New Foundation speech as the complete, contextual, canonical text for the domestic revolution he aims to enact. It had everything we have come to expect from Obama,
