1.) Karl Rove, “President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred” (The Wall Street Journal, 1/8/08)
Bush’s Brain argues/spins that Democrats are “myth-making” when they say that the president’s ballyhooed housing programs caused the economic crisis. It was their fault, for not “grant[ing] the Bush administration the regulatory powers it sought.”

2.) Michael Brendan Dougherty, “Fight of Their Lives” (The American Conservative, 1/12/09 issue)
Leaders of the pro-life movement angst about the agenda of a pro-death president.

3.) Jon Henke, “The Republican Strategy on Fiscal Stimulus” (The Next Right, 1/6/09)
A critique of the GOP’s nonexistent game plan on Obama’s economic package.

4.) Gov. Mark Sanford (R-South Carolina), “Bad Beltway Medicine” (National Review, 1/9/09)
The libertarian-leaning possible 2012 candidate continues his campaign to be the voice of anti-Washington, anti-bailout conservatives.

5.) Oliver North, “One President?” (Human Events, 1/9/09)
A terrifically unhinged argument that Joe Biden is endangering national security from a man most famous for endangering national security.

6.) Peter Ferrara, “Tax Cut Mirage” (The American Spectator, 1/7/09)
The best-travelled (on talk radio) and most data-driven attack on Barack Obama’s stimulus plans.

7.) Fred Barnes, “The End of the Line” (The Weekly Standard, 1/5/09)
Perhaps the last on-the-record, soft-focus features that Barnes, the semi-official sympathetic scribe of the Bush administration, will conduct with the president.

8.) Andrew Breitbart, “A Million Stories to Tell” (The Washington Times, 1/5/09)
The former quarterback of the Drudge Report launches “Big Hollywood,” a new site geared toward making the film industry patriotic again.

9.) David Brady, Douglas Rivers and Laurel Harbridge, “The 2008 Democratic Shift” (Policy Review, Dec/Jan)
A statistical study of the McCain defeat that concludes that Republicans are in for a “long, dry” period.