In endorsing President Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry (in photo) raised a key concern: Success depends on the Afghan and Pakistani governments. “In spite of everything we do,” Eikenberry told the House [...]
Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone sees the retirement of Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, as “an ominous sign for congressional Democrats.” He suggests that Moore might have had trouble winning re-election in 2010 with Barack Obama off the ballot and Moore’s votes for health reform and cap-and-trade [...]
President Obama’s speech about the Afghanistan troop surge, “for all its thoughtfulness and sporadic eloquence, was a failure at its central mission,” columnist Frank Rich wrote. “On its own terms, as both policy and rhetoric, it didn’t make the case for escalating our involvement in Afghanistan. [...]
Good for Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for questioning why the Obama administration is newly negotiating with and offering incentives to Sudan, a government accused of genocide by the International Criminal Court and whose president is the target of an ICC arrest warrant. Invited to participate Thursday [...]
“The president announced he will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan over the next six months and 2,000 additional troops to Tiger Woods’ mansion in Orlando. Peacekeeping forces.” — Jimmy Kimmel
“The good news, Obama said he expects to start bringing our troops home in two years. The bad news, Bush [...]
Though Republicans are overwhelmingly united in disliking President Obama, they aren’t particularly happy with their own party leaders, either. The Washington Post reported that fewer than half of the Republicans and GOP-leaning independents surveyed “see the party’s leadership as taking the GOP in the ‘right direction,’ [...]
