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Charles Krauthammer takes a rather cynical look at A Strategy to Save Obamacare.
Charles Krauthammer just keeps making sense: Honest Debate Needed on End-of-Life Talk. Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. [Good luck with that. --ed.] We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political ...
There goes Charles Krauthammer making sense again: A Better Plan for Health-Care Reform. The administration’s defense is to accuse critics of being for the status quo. Nonsense. Candidate John McCain and a host of other Republicans since have offered alternatives. Let me offer mine: Strip away current inefficiencies before ...
Charles Krauthammer’s Friday column examines the reasons for the collapse of Barack Obama’s massive health care reform: Obama Will Settle for Less on Health Care. Whatever structural reforms dribble out of Congress before the August recess will likely not survive the year. In the end, Obama will have to ...
Obama’s health care reform plans are in serious trouble, and Charles Krauthammer explains why: Why Obamacare Is Sinking. 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. ...
Charles Krauthammer says, “Our president likes his plumage.” Obama says that his START 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 ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, Russia
The argument in favor of Barack Obama’s current position toward Iran is that if he openly called for revolution in Iran, he could endanger the protesters and cause a violent crackdown. Charles Krauthammer isn’t buying it: Obama Misses the Point With Iran Response. All hangs in the balance. The ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer’s column today is about Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world, and his call for Israel to cease settlement growth: Barack Obama’s Israeli Settlements Canard. This first paragraph is the truly important point, and it’s the reality that most diplomats and politicians are constitutionally unable to acknowledge: ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Israel, Palestinians
Charles Krauthammer’s column today is about the Obama administration’s newfound fondness for the policies of the Bush administration: Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism. If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, War on Terror
Charles Krauthammer’s previous column provoked several angry responses from other pundits, and today he responds: The Torture Debate, Continued. This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to ...
Charles Krauthammer knows what’s behind Hamas’ latest phony offer of a temporary truce: The Hamas ‘Peace’ Gambit. WASHINGTON — The Times conducted a five-hour interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal at his Damascus headquarters. Mirabile dictu, they’re offering a peace plan with a two-state solution. Except. The offer is ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, Hudna, Truce
Charles Krauthammer’s latest: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President. Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for ...
Another perceptive column from Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s Ultimate Agenda: There is every political incentive to make these interventions in the banks and autos temporary and circumscribed. For President Obama, autos and banks are sideshows. Enormous sideshows, to be sure, but had the financial meltdown and the looming auto ...
Charles Krauthammer on the absurd populist circus: Bonfire of the Trivialities. A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama administration, and (c) $165 million. That’s $165 million in bonus money handed out to AIG debt ...
Interestingly, the Washington Post editors apparently toned down the title on Charles Krauthammer’s latest op-ed, from Obama’s ‘Kick Me’ Diplomacy (still visible in the print version) to Obama’s Supine Diplomacy (but they forgot to change the page title). With a grinning Goliath staggering about sporting a “kick me” sign ...
Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Diplomacy, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, Supine
It may have seemed like Charles Krauthammer was going a little wobbly lately, writing about Obama’s “presidential temperament” and criticizing Sarah Palin, but today’s column makes it exceedingly clear which side he’s on: McCain for President. The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer points out what should be obvious to anyone who’s really been paying attention in this election; there’s one candidate who has consistently and deviously traded in race-baiting, and it’s not John McCain: Who’s Playing the Race Card? Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, John McCain, Election 2008
Charles Krauthammer is critical of both candidates in his Friday column: Obama & Friends: Judge Not? McCain had his chance back in April when the North Carolina Republican Party ran a gubernatorial campaign ad that included the linking of Obama with Jeremiah Wright. The ad was duly denounced by ...
Charles Krauthammer, opinion, Barack Obama, John McCain, Election 2008
Charles Krauthammer is not optimistic about McCain’s chances against an opponent as “calm and collected” as Barack Obama: Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry. [Obama’s] one goal: Pass the Reagan ‘80 threshold. Be acceptable, be cool, be reassuring. Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he’s a rookie, but in ...
Charles agrees with me that Charlie doesn’t know the real meaning of the “Bush Doctrine.” And Charles should know; he coined the term: Charlie Gibson’s Gaffe. The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong. There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In ...
LGF, Election 2008, Sarah Palin, ABC News, Charlie Gibson, Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer on the Religion of Peace™ and Tolerance®: Tolerance: A Two-Way Street. Religious fanatics, regardless of what name they give their jealous god, invariably have one thing in common: no sense of humor. Particularly about themselves. It’s hard to imagine Torquemada taking a joke well. Today’s Islamists seem to ...
Charles Krauthammer, on the lessons of history: Never Again? The establishment of Israel was a Jewish declaration to a world that had allowed the Holocaust to happen — after Hitler had made his intentions perfectly clear — that the Jews would henceforth resort to self-protection and self-reliance. And so they ...