Krauthammer on Obama's Regulatory Fiats -video

H/T John Lott

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Events happen. Leaders are elected to lead (from the front, incidentally). That means dealing with events, not plaintively claiming to be their victim.

-Charles Krauthammer

"This Is Obama At His Most Sanctimonious, Demagogic, Self-Righteous And Arrogant"

C'mon, Charles! Tell us what you really think!

H/T GatorDoug

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To put it another way, if you started collecting that tax (the "corporate jet tax") at the time of John the Baptist and you collected it every year — first in shekels and now in dollars — you wouldn’t be halfway to covering one year of the amount of debt that Obama has run up.

-Charles Krauthammer

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"He's done. He didn't have a big chance from the beginning, but now it's over. Apart from being contradictory and incoherent...calling the Republican plan--which all but four Republican members of the House have now endorsed and will be running on--calling it radical and 'right-wing social engineering' is deadly."

-Charles Krauthammer on Newt Gingrich

Krauthammer on Obama's Deficit Speech

"I thought it was a disgrace. I thought, I've rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan, and so intellectually dishonest..."

-Charles Krauthammer

C'mon, Charles! Don't hold back, tell us what you really think!

The full text of Krauthammer's remarks can be found here.

H/T I own the world
More discussion at Mememorandum

Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.

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Here stand the Democrats, avatars of reactionary liberalism, desperately trying to hang on to the gains of their glory years - from unsustainable federal entitlements for the elderly enacted when life expectancy was 62 to the massive promissory notes issued to government unions when state coffers were full and no one was looking.

Obama's Democrats have become the party of no. Real cuts to the federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell, no

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-Charles Krauthammer

Krauthammer on the SOTU Speech

“This is a president who is capable of giving great speeches and has… This was not one of them.” -Charles Krauthammer

Charles is a man of few words. But those few are well chosen! The Gary Cooper of Washington Punditry...

H/T Gateway Pundit

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There was no finer expression of belief in American exceptionalism than (John F.) Kennedy’s. Obama has a different take. As he said last year in Strasbourg, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Which of course means: If we’re all exceptional, no one is.

-Charles Krauthammer

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This time you have gone too far, Big Bro'. The sleeping giant awakes. Take my shoes, remove my belt, waste my time and try my patience. But don't touch my junk.

-Charles Krauthammer

Krauthammer on the Folly of Trials of Terrorists in Civilian Courts

Krauthammer speaks of the "high protection" afforded to American citizens under the Constitution. These protections were never intended to be extended to illegal combatants who kill Americans and attempt to undermine our nation.

Anyone else get the impression that choosing Eric Holder, who once worked for a law firm providing pro bono defense for terrorists, to prosecute the terrorists, might not have been the best judgment here?


Video via American Glob

Krauthammer on Juan Williams' Firing: Illogical and Hypocritical

More at Newsbusters

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Perhaps calculating that removing relatively small amounts of fissile material from stable friendly countries didn’t quite do the trick, Obama proudly announced that the U.S. and Russia were disposing of 68 tons of plutonium. Unmentioned was the fact that this agreement was reached ten years ago — and, under the new protocol, doesn’t begin to dispose of the plutonium until 2018. Feeling safer now?

-Charles Krauthammer