Reagan

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that — like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president’s cabinet — he thinks President Obama was right when he said “we ought to go forward, not back.”
But then he went on to say, as Glenn Greenwald tweeted yesterday, that “I [...]

I attended a breakfast this morning with Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), hosted by The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform. It was a wonky and self-reflective affair — Sanford mused that he’d been “emasculated” once or twice by the South Carolina legislature — with one Mel Brooks moment. Responding to a question from Amanda [...]

At the Heritage Foundation, Manny Miranda floated the theory that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could sink her own nomination by being overly firey and combative, like President Ronald Reagan’s defeated nominee Robert Bork.
Sam Alito — soft-spoken. John Roberts — affable and soft-spoken. Sanda Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, all of them, soft-spoken. [...]

It’s got to be “Barack’s in the basement” from The Washington Times, which argues that “at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.”
The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military [...]

I had wondered how former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had been blasting President Obama up to Sunday morning over his response to the Somali pirate crisis, would respond to the successful rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips. Gingrich tweets his answer:
The navy seals did exactly thr right thing in rescuing the american captain President [...]

The president-elect is something new in American politics. In showing unfailing respect for those with competing views, he attempts to produce solutions that will accommodate the defining commitments of his fellow citizens. But he also wants to transform the nation’s self-understanding.

Speaking to a rally in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on Ronald Reagan’s famous plea that voters consider whether they were better off now than they were four years prior.
“At the pace things are going right now,” Obama told the crowd, “you’re going to have to ask whether you’re better off than [...]