 The House legislates, the President talks, and the Senate kills.
Charles Krauthammer
Fox News Commentary 7/29/2010
There's a lot of college students who all want to be Ayn Rand and soon they'll ... grow up and become conservatives. ... and in the end those college students and their buddies ... in the end will vote for the republican candidate, whoever he is, in November 2012.
Charles Krauthammer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Spirit/Videos/227.shtml
Obama's NASA budget perfectly captures the difference in spirit between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons. Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
Charles Krauthammer
Closing the New Frontier
This is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, "healthcare" dies, and the Supreme Court unshackles the First Amendment. It's the best week I've had since spring break in medical school, and I don't even remember it.
Charles Krauthammer
This Week with Bret Baier, Jan 22, 2010
Except for the demented orphan, the living will is quite beside the point. The one time it really is essential is if you think your fractious family will be only too happy to hasten your demise to get your money. That's what the law is good at -- protecting you from murder and theft. But that is a far cry from assuring a peaceful and willed death, which is what most people imagine living wills are about.
Charles Krauthammer
The Truth About Death Counseling
[The Iranian] people aren't dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators. This started out about election fraud. But like all revolutions, it has far outgrown its origins. What's at stake now is the very legitimacy of this regime -- and the future of the entire Middle East.
Charles Krauthammer
Obama Clueless on Iran
Obama offered Muslims a careful admonition about women's rights, noting how denying women education impoverishes a country -- balanced, of course, with "meanwhile, the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life." Well, yes. On the one hand, there certainly is some American university where the women's softball team has received insufficient Title IX funds -- while, on the other hand, Saudi women showing ankle are beaten in the street, Afghan school girls have acid thrown in their faces, and Iranian women are publicly stoned to death for adultery. (Gays, as well -- but then again we have Prop 8.) We all have our shortcomings, our national foibles. Who's to judge?
Charles Krauthammer
Obama on High
Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.
Charles Krauthammer
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/obamas_ultimate_agenda.html
...with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.
Charles Krauthammer
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html
[T]he only acceptable outcome of this war, both for Israel and for the civilized world, is ... the disintegration of Hamas rule. It is already under way. This is not about killing every last Hamas gunman. Not possible, not necessary. Regimes rule not by physically overpowering every person in their domain, but by getting the majority to accept their authority. That is what sustains Hamas, and that is what is now under massive assault.
Charles Krauthammer
Two Endgames for Israel
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. ...For Hamas the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
Charles Krauthammer
A Real Cease-Fire Needed in Gaza
If you're very very rich, you can buy your Senate seat by spending as much of your money as you want. Meanwhile, your poor plebeian opponent is running around groveling for the small contributions allowed by law. . . . Having given this additional leg up to the rich, we should resist packing our legislatures with yet more privileged parachutists, the well-born. True, the Brits did it that way for centuries, but with characteristic honesty. They established a house of Parliament exclusively for highborn twits and ensconced them there for life. There they chatter away in supreme irrelevance deep into their dotage. Problem is that the U.S. Senate retains House of Commons powers even as it develops a House of Lords membership.
Charles Krauthammer
Camelot is Not a State
Obama the centrist? I'm not so sure. Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.
Charles Krauthammer
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/12/obamas_plan_to_transform_ameri.html
The new Detroit, churning out Schumermobiles, will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency.
Charles Krauthammer
RCP my punctuation, brought to my attention by Steve Wolfer
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
Charles Krauthammer
RealClearPolitics
On everything Obama is 'unerring'...If you think he's changed his mind you're mistaken...As befits a man who's treated by the press as not presidential but papal he believes himself infallible. I wouldn't be surprised if in Berlin he holds not a rally, but a mass.
Charles Krauthammer
Special Report with Brit Hume, July 23, 2008
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