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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... This is the latest from David Moore, entitled Dispatches: Trusting What People Say in Polls: I'm pleased to join this conversation and to have received Stan Greenberg's book, which is a fascinating insider's look at the way polls were used in five major situations. It's great history by itself, and I would strongly recommend the book to any one at all interested in current events and/or the role of polling consultants in public policy. Charles Krauthammer: Saber-rattling and comic relief. ...

Be On Guard
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... Add to that Charles Krauthammer's piece on what is happening with Russian and Iran and I start feeling a bit like...Glenn Beck.

Morning Skim: Kinsley on Debt, Testing Obama, Israel's Direction
Opinionator — ... incurred by all the various bailouts and the stimulus plan: “If that’s not the plan, what is?” Also, Charles Krauthammer says the Russians, Iranians and Pakistanis are testing Obama and he is failing. Haaretz : Gideon Levy wonders ...

Krauthammer: Obama's 'Kick Me' Diplomacy
Little Green Footballs — ... (still visible in the print version) to Obama’s Supine Diplomacy (but they forgot to change the page title). ...

Obama's Supine Diplomacy
The New Editor — Charles Krauthammer: The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, predicted in October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apocalypse drama like the Cuban missile crisis. Instead, Obama's challenges have come in smaller bites. Some are deliberate threats to U.S. interests, others mere probes to ascertain whether the new president has any spine. Preliminary X-rays are not very encouraging.

Ursa Minor
Swampland — ... picks up Charles Krauthammer's theme of last Friday, which is that Barack Obama is getting played by the Russians. This is a theme that goes back to John McCain's overreaction to the skirmish in Georgia last summer--and further, to Robert Kagan's theory that the Russkies are roaring again. Which goes back to the neoconservative tic of searching for--at times, creating--enemies rather than opportunities. ...