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What Obama Can Learn From LBJ

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:26:19 CDT

David Frum detects "an unspoken critique of Barack Obama' in the fourth volume of Robert Caro's massive LBJ biography, The Passage of Power . Whereas Lyndon Johnson cajoled, wooed, and threatened in order to amass support for major bills—like the Civil Rights Act and Medicare—President Obama recoils "from the...

Contested Convention Would Be Disastrous

Matt Cantor — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:30:52 CST

As the GOP struggles to settle on a candidate , some are talking about a "brokered convention," at which party leaders would choose the nominee. But today's parties don't have the kind of power players that used to dominate the political scene—and "you can't have a 'brokered convention' in a...

Obama's Plan 'Bolder, Better Than Expected'

Mark Russell — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:48:05 CDT

Pundits handed out good grades aplenty for President Obama's new jobs proposal last night, with generally positive feedback from liberals like Paul Krugman—but also from conservatives like David Frum and Andrew Sullivan. Krugman writes in the New York Times that he was "favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs...

Back Off, Stewart: Arizona Needs That Law

Kevin Spak — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:12:25 CDT

Stop abusing Arizona, David Frum writes—the state Jon Stewart called the "meth lab" of democracy has a real problem that the federal government isn't doing a damn thing about. With the Mexican border at San Diego effectively fenced, illegal immigration and drug trafficking have shifted into Arizona, he writes....

GOP's Future Could Be Californian

Rob Quinn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:25:00 CDT

A revived and more electable GOP could be on its way to the White House by way of California, writes David Frum. Ronald Reagan's state turned blue in the '90s as its economy and demographics changed, causing Texas to replace California as the party's anchor. The Texas-led GOP found it...

Conservative Think Tank Ousts David Frum

John Johnson — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:16:57 CDT

David Frum has been ousted from the conservative American Enterprise Institute days after calling health care reform a political disaster for the right. Frum tells the Washington Post that "there was no suggestion from the AEI" that his scathing column on Sunday (read it here ) led to his dismissal,...

Can You Blame the Jews for Hating Palin?

Kevin Spak — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:56:18 CST

Why do the Jews hate Sarah Palin? Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin posed that leading question in the most recent issue of Commentary and her answer has provoked a backlash from other Jewish writers from both ends of the political spectrum. Rubin argued that, politics aside, Jews have a "palpable and...

Pundits Lie, Numbers Don't: Women Despise Palin

Will McCahill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:26:29 CST

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum is sick and tired of hearing the punditocracy gush over how much everyone loves Sarah Palin, and, armed with fistfuls of polls, reminds us: Her fan club is conservative men, and women of all stripes despise her. “If you like Palin,” he writes , “well go...

GOP Health Care 'Victory' Would Be Disastrous

Wesley Oliver — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:47:59 CDT

If Republicans topple Barack Obama’s attempts to reform health care, they will have reason to celebrate—if they like plummeting wages, skyrocketing Medicaid and Medicare costs, and angry entrepreneurs, David Frum writes for New Majority, scolding fellow conservatives for naysaying reform. “We’ll have entrenched and perpetuated some of the most...