Fred Barnes

On Not Letting Up

Target: Palin For conservatives and Republicans tempted to follow Fred Barnes and lay low a while, just notice what sites like the Huffington Post are up to these days: the #1 topic over at HuffPo right now, by the frequency of...

To hear GOP tell it, Obama already a bust

Republicans trying to pin stock market woes on him BY RICHARD ROEPER Sun-Times Columnist "So this is the big CHANGE you were all talking about? As James Rainey of the L.A. Times reported, Limbaugh bellowed, "The Obama recession...

Pundit RoundUp

From DemFromCT: The pundits are noticing that thought, facts and brains matter. Where have they been? Frank Rich: The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place — in...

America's progressive paradox

ACCORDING to Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, America is lurching left after last week¿s presidential election. But hang on. Gerard Baker, writing in The Times, says that America is still a centre-right...

Watching Them Squirm: Is Fox News Abandoning The Mob It Created?

A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility," and their pitchfork-wielding audiecnce. The first polls had just closed when the Republican right's "Agony Of Defeat" moment arrived. It was just after...

Watching Them Squirm: Is Fox News Abandoning the Mob It Created?

A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience. The first polls had just closed when the Republican right's "Agony Of Defeat" moment arrived. It was just after 8pm...

Blaming Obama for the Market

Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress is upset Fred Barnes and Dick Morris are blaming Obama for the post-election declines in the stock market. Armbruster’s case is a little defensive and misjudged (he cites the New York Times’...

Party in search of a new direction

The post-election position of the Republican Party is so dire, even the most seasoned outside observers can't make up their minds what will happen to it. "There is going to be an explosion and an implosion" in its ranks,...

Presidential election: 2 letters

Ever since I was little I’ve always had opinions. When I turned 16, I realized that I could vote for the next President of the United States. Ever since then, I’ve been so engrossed in everything politics. I made sure my...

Winners and losers

It's time for a list of winners and losers from this amazing, inspiring, tiring, two-year-long presidential race. There are many politicians in here, of course, but also members of the media, political advisors and consultants,...