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• GOP Claim Foothold in Afghanistan Debate

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Gen. Stanley McChrystal (WDCpix, Oscar Matatquin/ZUMA Press) Image by: Matt Mahurin Over two days of hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of CentCom, Republican members of Congress ...
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• Counting the votes on ObamaCare

  
  The Other McCain — Authority: 726
  Bill Kristol says Harry Reid lacks the 60 votes necessary to take ObamaCare to a roll-call in the Senate. If true, this is very good news. Given the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, the proper object of conservatives has always been neither a compromise nor the inclusion of some particular amendment, ...
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• Reids Agreement: A Deal, a Desperate Ploy, Or Something In Between?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  As Jonathan Cohn notes , the Senate health care "deal" is not really a deal -- nothing is is a deal until it has the support of two of Lieberman, Nelson, Snowe and Collins -- but it is a clear step toward a deal thats all but inevitable. The sense of panic among Republicans is fairly comical. Heres Bill Kristols ...
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• Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over “War President”

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  Eli Clifton, Inter Press Service News WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan for a 30,000-troop surge and a troop withdrawal timeline beginning in 18 months has caught criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. But a small group of hawkish foreign policy experts – who ...
  6 days ago

• Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over “War President”

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 438
  Eli Clifton, Inter Press Service News WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan for a 30,000-troop surge and a troop withdrawal timeline beginning in 18 months has caught criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. But a small group of hawkish foreign policy experts – who have ...
  6 days ago

• Neocons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over ‘War President’

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan for a 30,000-troop surge and a troop withdrawal timeline beginning in 18 months has caught criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.But a small group of hawkish foreign policy experts – who have lobbied the White House since August to escalate U.S. involvement ...
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• Bill Kristol Supports Obama War Plan, Afghanistan To Somehow Get Even Worse [Uh Oh]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  President Obamas new Afghanistan policy seems like basically the Afghanistan policy he kept promising hed pursue doing the campaign, so why is everyone so surprised? Unfortunately for America, there is concrete, inescapable proof that it will not work: Bill Kristol , the man who is wrong about everything, in the ...
  1 week ago

• The Right Backs Obama, Sort Of

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  When it was launched in March , the Foreign Policy Initiative ’s mission was always to back robust, whatever-it-takes operations in Afghanistan. I see that FPI’s founders Bill Kristol and Dan Senor are living up to their promise. In a remarkably snide write-up , Kristol spends a lot of time saying “I told you ...
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• A war president

  
  PostPartisan — Authority: 135
  In his Monday open letter/cri de coeur to the man he supported for president, Michael Moore asked Barack Obama: Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the ...
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• That Good-Faith Afghanistan Opposition

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday, yesterday : But the Republicans, I think, will be a loyal opposition. They will support the president. The president simply needs to be patient, give the — General Petraeus and General McChrystal know what they’re doing. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), The Wall Street Journal, today : ...
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• Remember When Conservatives Distrusted the Generals?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Dave’s insightful post on the Republicans’ Afghanistan strategy — try to use Gen. Stanley McChrystal as a cudgel against President Obama — is a good guide to next week’s testimony from the commander of the Afghanistan war . But when Bill Kristol frames the war as something conducted by McChrystal and Gen. ...
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• Echo Chamber of Secrets: 30 Media Muggles and their Harry Potter Counterparts

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 787
  It’s no secret that grown-ups love the Harry Potter series almost as much as kids – maybe even more, based on certain grown-up references that the average 12-year-old can’t quite yet appreciate. More to the point, by this time a whole bunch of Harry Potter fans who were once kids, back when the book came out, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palin Comparison: How Neo-Cons Misrepresent Representative Government

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths ...
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• Palintology: How Neo-Cons Misrepresent Representative Government

  
  Sex at Dawn — Authority: 92
  "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths ...
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• Cant Get A Flu Shot? Dont Blame Obama

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Conservatives have been quick to blame the administration for the slow delivery of H1N1 vaccine. Not long after Obama declared the swine flu pandemic a national emergency last month--a measure that cleared the way for hospitals to make special preparations for infected patients--Missouri Representative Roy Blunt ...
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• Party Pooped: Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, William Kristol & Liz Cheney

  
  Greenlee Gazette — Authority: 143
  What if you threw a party and nobody came? Well, if youre Newt "frankly" Gingrich, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove, Bill "Cheshire Cat" Kristol or Liz "Spawn of Dick" Cheney, you found out. I cant imagine that these stunning luminaries couldnt get people to party with them. And Im not being facetious either. I cant stand any ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Virtue of Shutting Up

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 99
  This will be my only post on Sarah Palin. Let me explain why. Unlike most (political or non-political) celebrities, whose fame is some admixture of gossip and buzz, talent and accomplishment, Palin has no discernable talents (beyond antagonizing coastal elites like myself) and her accomplishments are minimal at most. ...
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• Kristol: Generals Eikenberry and Jones are “Political Hacks”

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 775
  Failure to publicly respect military service would get a liberal raked over the coals, but Bill Kristol is a know-nothing who loves war so this will be fine : In areas where policies are still being debated — in foreign policy in particular — conservatives need to keep urging Obama to do the right thing. We are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Caught Red-Handed Showing Respect to Foreign Leader

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 135
  “I don’t know why President Obama thought that was appropriate. Maybe he thought it would play well in Japan. But it’s not appropriate for an American president to bow to a foreign one,” said conservative pundit William Kristol on Fox News Sunday. This was in response to the President’s greeting of Japanese ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Palin right-wing media acknowledgments list who’s who

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 641
  Colorado Independent colleague Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent offers an informed guessing annotation of the acknowledgments list that appears in Sarah Palin’s memoir, which was shipped to stores today. Palin, the media outsider, offers a folksy first-name-only list of right-wing media insiders that ...
  3 weeks ago

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