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" America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. "

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" There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. "

" Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. "

" By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. "

" By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. "

" As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. "

" Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. "

" Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him. "

" Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. "

" While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. "

" Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. "

" Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated. "

" What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail. "

" Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. "

" For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. "

" The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

" There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment. "

" Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. "

" When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model. "

" America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. "

" The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now. "

" Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. "

" For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. "

" I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. "

" Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. "

" Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. "

" The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job. "

" What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil. "

" Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. "