The New Republic

The depiction of Barack Obama that has emerged from some quarters of the American right is that of a Bush-like figure. He is irresponsibly running up deficits and covering them up with budgetary gimmickry. Under the guise of healing rhetoric, he ruthlessly pressures fellow partisans in Congress to toe the line. He is "filling White House ranks with former lobbyists," and his administration is devolving into general incompetence. And he has given unprecedented, Rove-like power to his political Svengali, David Axelrod. READ MORE >>

I'm hoping to dramatically scale back the amount of time I spend writing about former President Bush's Minister of Propaganda Peter Wehner. But, in the meantime, I was struck by his prediction of vengeance against President Obama for releasing memos about American use of torture: READ MORE >>

Former Bush administration Minister of Propaganda Peter Wehner has some advice for the new president: READ MORE >>

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Peter Wehner was deputy assistant to President Bush and he once also worked for Bill Kristol. So why should you be at all interested in what Wehner has to say? Well, one reason is that he is an intelligent person. A second is that he writes well. The third is that he knows a helluva lot about Iraq, really a lot. Here's how he reads the Times on Iraq. Strange, no? READ MORE >>