Bill Kristol

OK, this is getting good. The campaign of Dede Scozzafava, the moderate Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election, has blundered into an all-out war with The Weekly Standard. First, reporter John McCormack asked Scozzafava a series of questions that irritated her and inspired her to call the cops to check on him. Then, a [...]

Ben Smith has the scoop on Keep America Safe, a new pressure group headed up by former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Liz Cheney. Cheney’s partners are Debra Burlingame and Bill Kristol — whose other new venture, the Foreign Policy Initiative, is only seven months old. And so far, with [...]

Bill Kristol’s role in the 1993 health care debate gives him some authority whe he talks about Republican strategy now. His advice for the party on health care:
Go for the kill … This is the week to highlight every problem, every terrible provision, in the Democratic bills: from taxes and spending to government control and [...]

In his fevered imaginings, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that the Obama administration is “100 percent” committed to closing Guantanamo Bay, she’s really “(subconsciously?) signaling she doesn’t really expect Guantanamo to be closed.” It’s a great post, and one that entirely forfeits him the right to ever claim another human being is [...]

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up December 2010), and, according to the pundit class, effectively take herself out of the 2012 election.
On Fox News, Bill Kristol said that “the more he thought about [...]

Obviously I don’t have any stake in the reputation-destruction fight going on in Politico between Bill Kristol and ex-McCain campaign foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann on one side and ex-McCain strategist Steve Schmidt on the other. But I couldn’t stop laughing at this:
Scheunemann, confirming that his e-mail had been searched, accused Schmidt of “acting in [...]

Conservative media mogul Phillip Anchutz, and his Clarity Media Group, has bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. That greatly expands Anchutz’s beltway empire — he launched and owned the Washington Examiner, which has been beefing up its staff.
I asked Examiner opinion page editor Mark Tapscott whether there’d be any cross-pollination between the two [...]

In the wake of the contested election and the surging rallies against Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs who rule Iran, prominent Republicans in the House and other conservatives want the president to make a firm statement.

There’s some head-spinning intellectual dishonesty at work in the first two major-media columns that argue, counterintuitively, that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democrats is good for Republicans. First, Bill Kristol:
On May 24, 2001, I wrote an op-ed for The Post in the wake of Vermont Sen. James Jeffords’s party switch. I argued that [...]

Praise be to Bill Kristol. Someone should issue him a remedial reading-comprehension exam.
Recall yesterday that Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, wrote a morale-boosting memo yesterday to the CIA saying, “Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing.” What he means to say is pretty straighforward: [...]