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Doing Nothing

This is, I suppose, the “Cairo Effect” — the term Obama’s spinners gave to the president’s mystical powers to change the dynamic in the Middle East by simply giving a speech to the “Muslim World”: US President Barack Obama is “doing nothing right now” ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Contentions,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

For the Defense

A colleague provides a copy of this decision in which Fenstermaker litigated against a school district in Westchester County and sought documents from the school district in the applicable freedom of information law. But it seems he went overboard ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

What Can Be Done?

As Charles Krauthammer aptly put it, our attorney general is “clueless” on the subject of KSM’s trial in New York. The defense counsel Scott Fenstermaker is warming up, explaining that we’ll hear rebuttals to all the “demonization” of his client that ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Contentions,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Charles Krauthammer,  U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  Harriet Miers

Poll Numbers Crash

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  New York Times Company,  U.S. Congress

What Comes from Kowtowing

I suppose it could have been worse. China could have sentenced “a veteran Chinese human rights campaigner who challenged the central government over the faulty construction of school buildings that collapsed during last year’s Sichuan earthquake” while ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Finally, Embrace the Obvious

The Washington Post employs the passive voice in its lede on the newfound fondness for nuclear power: Nuclear power — long considered environmentally hazardous — is emerging as perhaps the world’s most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Contentions,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Greenpeace

Gelb Sounds Like Cheney

When Leslie Gelb writes a column entitled “Amateur Hour at the White House,” which sounds like he’s channeling Dick Cheney, the White House has a problem. Gelb is no right-winger but rather a dean in the Beltway foreign-policy establishment. The former ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Contentions,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Leslie Gelb,  Dick Cheney,  New York Times Company

Bribe-a-thon

As some have observed, the worse ObamaCare gets, the bigger the bribes needed to induce lawmakers to vote for it: The process has degenerated into taxpayer-financed payoffs for moderate Democrats who don’t want to be held accountable for wrecking the ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Republican Party,  Dennis Cardoza

Nice to Whom?

In a blistering column from Der Spiegel, we get another list of the disasters that comprise the Obama foreign-policy agenda. A Middle East gambit gone bad, spurned allies, a failed Iran-engagement plan, a widely ridiculed Asia trip, and on it goes. ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Hugo Chávez,  Stanley A. McChrystal

Talking Nonsense

Ben Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that Holder’s confidence is misleading. “Holder is clearly talking nonsense when he says failure is not an option,” Wittes said. “Adverse outcomes can happen, and I am certain that within ...

From JENNIFER RUBIN, Commentary,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brookings Institution,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Barack Obama,  Eric Holder

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