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Victor Davis Hanson: When Administrations Implode
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When Administrations Implode
By Victor Davis Hanson
Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos takes hold, whether self-induced or as a result of an outside crisis.
Vietnam had effectively destroyed Lyndon Johnson by 1967. Watergate unraveled the Richard Nixon administration, as the disgraced president resigned in the [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: The un-Obama
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The un-Obama
By Victor Davis Hanson
Barack Obama’s favorability in the polls falls when he is himself — overexposed, hard left in his press conferences, and boastful about legislative achievements like Obamacare and a stimulus of more than $1 trillion.
Then a strange thing happened. Obama largely went quiet. Often he was out of sight, vacationing [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Unbound
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Obama Unbound
By Victor Davis Hanson
Richard Nixon went to Red China with political impunity. Had a Democrat tried that, he would have been branded a commie appeaser.
To this day, liberals cannot conceive that during the two world wars, progressives like Woodrow Wilson, Earl Warren and Franklin Delano Roosevelt trampled on civil liberties in a [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Becomes the Fall Guy
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Obama Becomes the Fall Guy
By Victor Davis Hanson
Suddenly, liberal op-ed writers are trashing — even lampooning — Barack Obama as a one-term president (“one and done”). Centrist Democrats up for re-election in 2012 openly worry about inviting a kindred president into their districts, lest the supposed new pariah lose them votes.
Left-wing think tanks, [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: What’s Off the Table in 2012?
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What’s Off the Table in 2012?
By Victor Davis Hanson
What should we not expect during next summer’s presidential campaign, given what was put off-limits in 2008 and later?
There is much talk about what some are perceiving as the fringe religiosity of possible Republican primary candidates such as Michele Bachman and Rick Perry. But the [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: The Old Not Enough Excuse
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The Old Not Enough Excuse
By Victor Davis Hanson
To newly inaugurated Barack Obama and his prime-the-pump technocrats, the logic seemed so simple. America’s problem was a struggling economy. The solution was to spread around even more borrowed government money. The result would be a return to prosperity.
But after nearly three years and almost [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Spare Us the Sermons, Mr. President
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Spare Us the Sermons, Mr. President
By Victor Davis Hanson
During the recent debt crisis, President Obama talked about the need for bipartisan compromise and, as in the past, urged civility. Giving ground and engaging in polite discourse, of course, can be noble aims. But, like most one-eyed-jack politicians, Obama has rarely embraced the admirable [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Reactionary President
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Our Reactionary President
By Victor Davis Hanson
Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
Take the economy. The 1980s [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage
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The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage
By Victor Davis Hanson
Democrats in Congress recently went all out to try to pass the Dream Act, an amnesty for illegal-alien students willing to enroll — and stay — in college. Most who opposed it were derided as heartless at best, racist at worse. An insolvent California — [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Dreamland, USA
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Dreamland, USA
By Victor Davis Hanson
Barack Obama just gave a belated but stern warning about escalating debt — a few weeks after he presented a 2011 budget with a $1.6 trillion annual deficit, the largest shortfall in American history. Congressional Republicans are now crowing about reducing Obama’s red ink by forcing some $38 billion [...]