06 Tuesday Mar 2007
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We all know that Hillary Clinton has found herself twisted into a knot over her position on Iraq. Indeed, there’s a pretty good case that her vote in favor of the authorization of the war is the biggest substantive obstacle between her and the Democratic nomination.
27 Tuesday Feb 2007
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The essential question in crowded presidential fields is always this: What are you really running for? To hone your political skills and make connections for a future, serious bid for the nomination? To establish your vote-getting credibility sufficiently strongly to warrant serious consideration for the veep slot? Or, in fact, with the hope and plausible expectation of winning the nomination that year and taking your shot at the White House?
20 Tuesday Feb 2007
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The House vote opposing the surge in Iraq drew 17 Republicans, far fewer than Democrats hoped, so the scenario of a collapse in congressional support for the war effort forcing President Bush’s hand has been averted for now. What we have is largely a partisan divide, and while the Democratic position is the majority position, in the absence of a far more dramatic fall-off in Republican support, Mr. Bush will be able to hold on long enough to see whether Gen. David Petraeus can produce results on the ground.
13 Tuesday Feb 2007
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MUNICH. — The annual meeting of defense and foreign-policy eminences here is usually devoted to a fair amount of carping from one side of the Atlantic to the other. It’s the place NATO allies go to bicker among themselves. This year, however, was different, producing a rare moment of trans-Atlantic unity, brought to you, bizarrely, by none other than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
06 Tuesday Feb 2007
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Opposition to the Iraq war has understandably led to a more generally anti-interventionist climate in Washington. There has long been such a strain in American public opinion: Walter Russell Mead identified it as the Jeffersonian strain, more interested in cultivating the American garden than in going abroad to slay dragons.
30 Tuesday Jan 2007
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The Politico, the new Web site specializing in Washington political coverage, may or may not be the wave of the future. But it is trying to crack through an odd wall that has spontaneously sprung up between media new and old.
23 Tuesday Jan 2007
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Several strands of conventional wisdom are gathering into an early narrative line on the 2008 presidential race. That being the case, it’s not too early to start picking them apart.
16 Tuesday Jan 2007
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No surprise, but Democrats on Capitol Hill and most everywhere else have checked out on Iraq, and they’re taking a few Republicans with them. Some people like to say that we can succeed in Iraq only if we have broad bipartisan agreement on the way forward. But the only way to obtain broad bipartisan agreement now would be for the Bush administration to acquiesce in the majority Democratic view that Iraq has been such a disaster that success is now impossible and the thing to do is get out as soon as practical.
09 Tuesday Jan 2007
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President Bush has apparently decided that he wants one more chance to win this war. Likely, he will get it, but there will be a price: The sole proprietor of Iraq policy starting tomorrow will be the president himself.
02 Tuesday Jan 2007
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It’s not every politician who gets to write the headline for his own obituary. Usually, the sense of self required for the pursuit and attainment of high public office leads to an irresistible tendency to overstate, even if this occasionally expresses itself as transparently phony humility. Yet Gerald R. Ford was someone whom history has judged to have got himself exactly right with the title of his autobiography, “A Time to Heal.”
Tod Lindberg 