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McCarthy: Obama Smiles
Articles on National Review Online — ... THE GAME AND THE SYSTEM Having mastered the game, Obama is now governing rather than challenging. This week, in his opening gambits, he pushed to get his cabinet approved. It was hard not to admire his agility, even while deploring his choices. He navigated confirmations of an attorney general whose last tour of duty ended in scandal, a Treasury secretary who evades income taxes, and a secretary of state whose tortuous financial conflicts would make Bernie Madoff blush. CONTINUED 1 2 ...

We Need a New GOP - One With Balls and a Spine To Hang Them On
Daily Pundit — Obama Smiles by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review Online With Hillary ensconced at State, ten Republican senators then voted to install Timothy Geithner at Treasury, a quarter of the party establishment thereby endorsing the enforcement of tax laws by a tax cheat. The decision not to mount a real fight on Geithner was calculated. According to a key GOP senator, as National Review’s Byron York reported, Republicans figured “members of the minority party have just so much ammunition, and using it against a cabinet official who serves at the pleasure of the president is not as wise as saving it to use against, say, a judicial nominee seeking a ...