20 Tuesday Feb 2001
Posted in Washington Times
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Forgive a bit of political whimsy this week. The 2004 presidential election is far enough away that one can speculate freely, without the intrusion of stubborn facts, so why not? Question: What does George W. Bush do to give himself the best chance of re-election?
13 Tuesday Feb 2001
Posted in Washington Times
The Washington Times
The first noteworthy intraparty skirmish of the Bush administration and Republicans on Capitol Hill got under way over a subject one might have thought an easy one for the GOP: defense spending.
06 Tuesday Feb 2001
Posted in Washington Times
The Washington Times
Shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, People magazine (in an uncharacteristic nod to highbrow culture) ran a profile of the neoconservative intellectual couple Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz. She, a former editor at Basic Books, had founded the Committee for the Free World, whose purpose was to make the intellectual case for the institutions of freedom and against communism. He was the editor of Commentary magazine and had been mentioned as a possible head of the United States Information Agency (USIA).
30 Tuesday Jan 2001
Posted in Washington Times
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George W. Bush had as good a first week as any new president could wish – a fact all the more remarkable for the electoral tumult on his way to the White House.
23 Tuesday Jan 2001
Posted in Washington Times
The Washington Times
There is already a lot to say about the 43rd president of the United States, and I am looking forward to getting started on the chronicles of an administration that looks to have embarked on the ambitious project of defining a conservative mainstream politics that supersedes (while incorporating many elements of) the ideological conservatism of the Reagan-Gingrich era. This is a big deal, folks, and the future of the GOP is riding on the outcome.
16 Tuesday Jan 2001
Posted in Washington Times
The Washington Times
How conservative is the Bush administration going to be? That’s a question on the minds of both liberals and conservatives these days.
11 Thursday Jan 2001
Posted in Washington Times
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An often heard lament in Washington is that loyalty is a one-way street. Presidents expect it, but they do not extend it in return. Come a whiff of trouble, and even someone who has served the president well and faithfully for years will find herself cut dead, or perhaps twisting slowly in the wind.
02 Tuesday Jan 2001
Posted in Washington Times
The Washington Times
President Clinton has been a truly polarizing figure in American politics, and lots of people (including me) were indulging the hope that after he left Washington this month, the partisan temperature of Washington would decline. During his tenure in office, the amount of energy consumed in attacking him and defending him on cable chat shows alone would have been sufficient to fuel the politics of a mid-sized European country for generations. Surely, this level of animosity could not be sustained indefinitely. Surely, a flame burning this bright eventually consumes itself.
26 Tuesday Dec 2000
Posted in Washington Times
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For opportunities to embarrass yourself, there is nothing quite like writing a political column in an election year. One must make predictions, right? And boy, do some of them look bad when the time comes, as it does today for this column, to look back over the year.
25 Monday Dec 2000
Posted in Weekly Standard
All those lawyers on Team Gore ended up litigating their way to defeat.
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AN ENDLESSLY FASCINATING topic of conversation about the 2000 presidential election has been why Al Gore wasn’t winning big as the nominee of the incumbent party in times of unprecedented peace and prosperity. He had four aces, and he still couldn’t rake in the pot. An equally fascinating question, it turns out, is how he lost the postelection legal maneuvering. Although the thought will be an awful one for Bush supporters to contemplate, there, too, Gore might have had a winning hand — and certainly had a better hand than he played.
Tod Lindberg 