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What Is Happening To My Target Rich Administration?
I have to confess that President elect Obama has me seriously worried for reasons that I would never, in my wildest expectations, have predicted as recently as one month ago....
Wouldn't It Be Rich: Should the Right Bush Obama?
spectator.org — "Our gross national product does not allow.... for the intelligence of our public debate." -- Senator Robert... F. Kennedy, 1967 What would Bobby Kennedy think now? For eight years the people inhabiting prominent roles on RFK's side of ... (more) Wouldn't It Be Rich: Should the Right Bush Obama?
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The argument for Leon Panetta
TigerHawk — ... and Bill O'Reilly are unhappy with Barack Obama's choice to run the CIA, Leon Panetta, that is a signal to look into it more deeply. In a round-up grading Barack Obama's senior appointments, Wizbang blogger HughS made this argument, which strikes me as more likely to be true than any other I have read or heard in the last day: Panetta at CIA: A+ (This was a head scratcher at first, but then the light came on: he's going to let the CIA continue to do its thing. Panetta's just there to make sure Obama doesn't get impeached...) Agreed. Look, the Democrats would go nuts if Obama ...

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