48 results for "Charles Krauthammer"
Charles Krauthammer: White House has a major credibility crisis to deal with
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMNote to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't mee...
Charles Krauthammer: Obama: From king of the world to dead in the water
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMFate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs...
Charles Krauthammer: Bush's legacy: Infrastructure that keeps U.S. safe from terror
Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12:00 AMClare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He...
Charles Krauthammer: Boston, Benghazi and the president's linguistic challenge
Friday, April 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMTerrorism is speech – speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it "propaganda by deed." Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first su...
Charles Krauthammer: Obama's budget offers usual tax and spend, but no reform
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMWell, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.
Charles Krauthammer: Obama undermines effort to reform immigration policy
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMIs a bipartisan immigration deal at hand? It's close. Last week, the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce worked out a guest-worker compromise that admits foreign workers on a sliding scale of 20,000 to 200,000, depending on the strength...
Charles Krauthammer: Here's a 50 percent solution to achieve national solvency
Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe proposition that entitlement curbs are the key to maintaining national solvency is widely accepted, though not by many congressional Democrats. President Barack Obama, however, has endorsed it on various occasions. And he could make it happe...
Charles Krauthammer: Rethink rules of engagement, and codify use of drones for war
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12:00 AMIn choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow:
Charles Krauthammer: Why we give foreign aid
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 3:27 PMSequestration is not the best time to be doling out foreign aid, surely the most unpopular item in the federal budget. Especially when the recipient is President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt.
Charles Krauthammer: Bring on budget cuts from sequester, hail Armageddon
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM"The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens."
