Reading through the news headlines these days is like picking cards out of a pack of jokers.
- George W. Bush’s memoir largely consists of remembered thoughts, feelings, and conversations lifted from other people’s memories. He lifted descriptions and quotes from other people’s writings and presented them as his own personal reactions. He turned a comment from John McCain quoted in a newspaper article into a personal conversation between the two of them. He wrote about events he had not seen or been present for as though he had been, by lifting first-person memories from others who had been present. Even when he had been there and seen it and experienced it for himself, his recollections are often not his, but rather, the recollections of others dug up for him by his researcher.
- Two Democratic (yikes! thanks to Peter Orvetti in comments!) pollsters, writing in the Washington Post, tell us that Pres. Obama can yet become a great president and a historic national leader — but only if he announces that he will not run for reelection in 2012. If he agrees to be a one-term President, Republicans in Congress will gladly and eagerly abandon gridlock and rush to Obama’s side to help him forge a bipartisan consensus, one that conservatives and liberals as well as all Americans can get behind.
- Republican member of Congress Eric Cantor meets with Benjamin Netanyahu for seven hours in New York and tells him that he and his fellow Republicans will conduct a separate foreign policy with Israel in opposition to that of the Obama administration.
- Sen. Jim DeMint, having ostentatiously backed the Tea Party loony, Joe Miller, against incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, now will have to find a way to unburn his bridges — since (a) the write-in campaign recount is going strongly in Murkowski’s favor; and (b) Murkowski ain’t gonna make the first move (and why should she?). But if you are a Republican planning to run for election anywhere, you better not mess with Jim, because if you utter a peep of criticism, DeMint’s friends will come after you.
- Olympia Snowe, you’re next.
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