David Frum
David Frum
David J. Frumis a Canadian-American neoconservative political commentator. A speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum later became the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic and also a CNN contributor. He serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the British think tank Policy Exchange, the anti-drug policy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, and as vice chairman and an associate fellow of the R Street...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
Reagan is a symbol who calls the party to be something broader. The Republican Party is in many ways a very disunited party. In a way, by making Reagan a greater figure, you can create a greater unity.
This moment calls for leadership from Republican senators who should go to the White House and tell it that this nomination will not work and should be withdrawn.
Compared to, say, a prime minister of England, a president has actually astonishingly few legal powers. A prime minister of England can take England to war all by himself. He doesn't have to have a vote in Parliament, nothing. The President of the United States has to get a Declaration of War.
The Bush administration since 9/11 has been again and again fighting to escape gravity, fighting to escape the weight of the way things have always been done. Things are now coming to a decision point, and we'll know soon.
I knew first-hand why, for all her virtues as a human being, she would be inadequate both ideologically and in terms of qualifications for this job.
I don't think there is a single member who thinks she deserves this nomination. And I don't think there is a single Republican who would be sorry if she were to withdraw.
It's a funny story; it's not a self-aggrandizing one.
It wasn't that she didn't do the job right, ... but the way she did the job rules her out of being a person you would think of as capable of handling this enormous responsibility.
It's reaching out. But the Supreme Court is exactly the place where the president should draw the line.
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.
We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.