William Kristol

Frank Rich On Scozzafava Fallout: The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...

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The Company You Keep

Tom Andrews | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: votevets.org, Vote Vets, Trent Reznor, Jon Soltz, Nine Inch Nails, Debra Burlingame, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Music, Close Gitmo Now, Dick Cheney, Keep America Safe. National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, Jay Bagwell, Pearl Jam, New Security Action, Bill Kristol, Liz Cheney, William Kristol, R.E.M., Vice President Cheney, Nin, Matthew Alexander, Gtmo, Politics News
Tom Andrews

Yesterday's announcement by acclaimed musicians that they were signing onto our National Campaign to Close Guantanamo Bay generated a harsh response from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol.

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Newsweek: Strange Bedfellows Oppose Afghanistan Escalation

newsweek.com | Katie Connolly | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: White House, John McCain, Karl Rove, Congress, Afghanistan, President Obama, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Troops, Beyond Left and Right Afghanistan, Congress-Afghanistan-Policy, Sarah Palin, Stanley McChrystal, Obama Afghanistan Troops, Beyond Left and Right, William Kristol, World News

If President Obama decides to endorse Gen. Stanley McChrystal's plan to send tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, he'll find an unli...

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The Rio Games -- And Those GOP Games

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

Why was the GOP so elated with Chicago's Olympic failure? Was it the joy in avoiding the inevitable cost overruns? The security concerns? Or was it enough that Obama had failed?

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The 3 Lost Lessons of Healthcare History: Will Obama Re-Learn Them in Time?

John Neffinger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Public Health Insurance Plan, Public Option, Grassley Bipartisanship, President Obama, Health Insurance Industry, Obama Bipartisanship, Medicare for All, Bernie Sanders, Grassley Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Bill Kristol, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Bipartisanship, Medicare, Health Care, William Kristol, Obama Public Option, Politics News
John Neffinger

The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.

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Weekly Standard, P.J. O'Rourke Suddenly Opposed to Making Fun of People's Clothes

Barrett Brown | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: P. J. O'Rourke, Washington Post, William Kristol, Sarah Palin, Weekly Standard, Media News
Barrett Brown

The Weekly Standard has officially abandoned Burke-Hamilton elitism in favor of Limbaugh-Palin populism, which, though a damn shame, was probably inevitable.

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More Orly Taitz!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Bernie Goldberg, Anne Coulter, Far Right, Orly Taitz, Rush Limbaugh, Geithner ABC This Week, Dick Morris, President Barack Obama, Tea Baggers, Obama's Health Care Reform, Michelle Malkin, Glen Beck, Alan Keyes, Sarah Palin, George Stephanopoulos, Frank Gaffney, Birthers, Health Care Reform, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Abc, Republican Party, Pundits, William Kristol, Birther Movement, Bill O'Reilly, Ms. Orly Taitz, Michael Savage, Taitz, Andrea Mitchell, Jerome Corsi, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Finally, we have an extreme right-wing personality making the rounds in the corporate media who tears down the facade of "legitimacy" the Far Right bestows upon its craziest enthusiasts.

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These Health Care Numbers Could Make a Man Sick!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Office of Management and Budget, Chris Dodd, Henry Waxman, Republicans and Health Care, Barack Obama, GOP and Health Care, Bill Kristol, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Chuck Grassley, Health Care, William Kristol, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Not only do the various plans now being considered fail to "bend the curve" of health care spending downward, every one of the plans would send the curve still higher.

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Bill Kristol: This Is The Week To Kill Health Care

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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At the Weekly Standard, editor Bill Kristol has declared war on health care reform, telling Republicans now is the time to "go for the kill." With O...

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Obama Urges Cautious Optimism Toward New Season of Entourage

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough, Obama, Dana Milbank, William Kristol, Entourage, Helen Thomas, Satire, Comedy News
John Wellington Ennis

"I would suggest that detractors be more worried about E's vulnerability to Sloan," the President observed.

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Juan Williams Calls Out Bill Kristol For Using Health Care "Scare Tactics" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

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On "Fox News Sunday" today Juan Williams criticized fellow panelist Bill Kristol for using what he called "scare tactics" in making the case against t...

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About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremists

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Right Wing DHS Report, Msnbc, Lou Dobbs, Scott Roeder, George Tiller Murder, Abdulhakim Bledsoe, Michelle Malkin, Department of Homeland Security, George Tiller, Cnn, Joe Scarborough, James W. Von Brunn, Sean Hannity, Dhs Report, Richard Poplawski Pittsburgh, Fox News, Michael Savage, William Kristol, Media News
Karl Frisch

In the wake of these attacks, it shouldn't be too much to ask that the DHS report be taken seriously rather than used to score political points.

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Bibi Goes to Washington: How About a Nuclear Free Middle East?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

It might be the case that Netanyahu has far more friends in Washington than does the president.

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Specter Switch: Another "Win" for the Grand Old Purity!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Gop, U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter Democrat, Bill Kristol, Lindsay Graham, Olympia Snowe, Republican Purity, Club for Growth, Pat Toomey, Republicans, William Kristol, Republican Moderates, Chris Chocola, Micahel Reagan, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Pure like ice. Pure like fire. That's the way they wanted it. That's the way they'd have it, and they'd leave no tone unspurned. Only true believer...

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Bill Kristol: Specter's Defection "Good News For Republicans!"

Washington Post | William Kristol | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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On May 24, 2001, I wrote an op-ed for The Post in the wake of Vermont Sen. James Jeffords's party switch. I argued that the switch, which cost Republi...

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New York Times' Tierney Wrong on "Saving the Planet"

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, John Tierney, Economics, Science, New York Times, Climate Change, Pollution, William Kristol, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

Tierney's laissez-faire attitude seem pretty irresponsible. We need a revolution for energy on the scale that the internet was a revolution for information.

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Post Passover Ponderings

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

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Sam Greenfield

Two thousand six hundred dollars for a seat in Yankee Stadium? For that money, do i get a lap dance during the seventh inning stretch?

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"Mission Accomplished" Bush Gets the Last Laugh in Iraq and Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

For years, George W. Bush has been roundly criticized, even lampooned, for declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But maybe declaring "Mission Accomplished" was not that crazy after all.

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The "S" Word and a Bankrupt GOP

Bennet Kelley | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Congressional Republicans, William Kristol, Obama Socialist, President Obama, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

While Republicans may think the "S" word is their magic weapon in stopping Obama's momentum, they fail to recognize that the 2008 election was a mandate for more government.

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Sam Stein

Newest Neocon Outfit Hosting Afghanistan Forum With Sen. McCain And Rep. Harman

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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Largely under the radar, some of the major neoconservative figures who fashioned the rationale for the Iraq war have set up a shop for shaping future ...

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Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Gop, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, Progressives, Afghanistan Occupation, Employee Free Choice Act, Conservatism, Obama Administration, Democratic Party, Economic Meltdown, Blue Doggery, Meghan McCain, U.S. Senate, Bush Doctrine, Triangulation, Laissez-Faire, Progressive Democrats, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, Republican Party, Blue Dog Democrats, Corporate Governance, Bretton Woods Accords, Evan Bayh, John McCain, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Iraq Occupation, Congress, Efca, Triangulate, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Free Market, Alan Greenspan, William Kristol, Senate, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

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Kristol Breaks With Limbaugh: Americans Should Want Obama to Succeed

Think Progress | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Bill Kristol, William Kristol, Barack Obama, Weekly Standard, Politics News

In recent weeks, a growing number of conservatives have hopped on the Rush Limbaugh bandwagon, saying they agree with his repeated statements that he ...

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Frogs

Neil McCarthy | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Neil McCarthy

The GOP is telling us that the solution to our current problems is some combination of tax cuts, a spending freeze, reduction of the deficit, and the condemnation the "earmark."

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Kristol: GOP Should Unite Against Economic Recovery Package Now To Help Defeat Health Care Later

Think Progress | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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On Monday night, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol appeared on Neil Cavuto's Fox Business show to discuss conservative criticism of President Obama'...

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Put a Libertarian on the New York Times' Op-Ed Page

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media

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Andrew Sargus Klein

Where's the tipping point between civil liberties and, to put it glibly, the government looking out for you?

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