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At 9:18 Friday night, I got an alert from the Washington Post. Barack Obama had slapped tariffs on imports of Chinese tires. Barack Obama’s handling of this issue shows several things. First, it shows a real contempt for China, trade policy, and …
Democratic Congresional leaders campaign against trade in Latin America. Appalling.
The Democrats talk about restoring America’s role in the world. Hillary Clinton, in particular, talks about her ability to do so. Of course, for all of her husband’s post-White House international fame, it is worth remembering how low his international reputation was. This was a guy who used his veto of a UN Secretary-General as [...]
I think that this is fascinating. Here’s what the Machinists say: “Mike Huckabee was the only Republican candidate with the guts to meet with our members and the only one willing to figure out where and how we might work together,” said Buffenbarger. “He is entitled to serious consideration from our members voting in the [...]
Reihan Salam responds to one of my recent posts about Mike Huckabee. I had said: On a deeper level, I hear in Huckabee an instinct towards the isolationism that Eisenhower fought against. … Reihan responds: I say "somewhat strangely" because Eisenhower was the peace candidate (i.e., the one who pledged to end a foreign war), [...]
Now that Mike Huckabee is in the first-tier, he is going to need a foreign policy, which he hasn’t articulated much of, as of yet. My friend David Adesnik dug up some on Huckabee’s foreign policy, as articulated in the Presidential debate two weeks ago: HUCKABEE: Well, the problem is, George, sometimes when you get [...]
Marc Ambinder catches this: In case you missed it, Chuck said on MSNBC earlier that Bill Clinton, in private conversations, has said that he couldn’t win the Democratic nomination in this environment; the party had shifted to the left on trade
