The Lib Dems have just had a brief Q&A on foreign affairs. Paddy Ashdown and defence minister Nick Harvey gave staunch their support to the Afghan Mission, but confessed to having misgivings. Ashdown described the Bush administration's strategy as an "absolute model of how not to intervene, both militarily and politically". This failure, Ashdown said, ensured that a "vi...

An interesting clip from ex-SecDef Donald Rumsfeld on Fareed Zakaria's show. I love the bit where Rumsfeld says the Obam aAdminsitration is much worse, and Obama fanboy Zakaria interrupts him to say 'But he killed Osama'. Well, someone did. addthis_url='>'; addthis_title='>'; addthis_pub='Joshuapundit';please donate...it helps me write more gooder!

Many Democrats are calling President Obama's deal with congressional Republicans on the extension of the Bush administration's tax cuts a surrender on a key point of principle. This is a serious overreaction

The final end to the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame scam comes from, of all places, the editors of the Washington Post, who dubs "Fair Game" the new movie that attempts to make heroes out of them, 'Hollywood myth-making': Joseph C. Wilson IV and former spy Valerie Plame, claim that it tells the true story of their battle with the Bush administration over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and M...

After 9/11, the Bush Administration established the Transit Security Authority at great cost with the idea of improving our airline security.The idea was sound, but the way it was pursued guaranteed a dismal failure. To begin with, the Bush Administration ( and the Obama Administration doubly so) shied away from looking at who was actively committing the terrorism - Muslim Males 18-45 - and attemp...

Tony Blair attempted to prolong his time as PM after being warned that Bush administration had "grave doubts".

Not as thick as he looked, Dubya. The Sunday Telegraph reports that the Bush administration urged Tony Blair to remain in office because it had ‘big concerns’ about working with the monomaniac Gordon Brown.  Here are the details: ‘Senior officials in the US administration sounded the alert after a meeting between Mr Brown and Condoleezza Rice, Mr Bush’s secretary of st...

Debating the surge in Afghanistan, on The Hill. Here are my two cents. When the Bush administration unveiled the Iraq surge and new war strategy, then Senator Barak Obama opposed the plan, arguing it was bound to fail and increase the violence. He was proven wrong. A few years later, President Obama, faced with a dismal situation in Afghanistan, is trying to copy the same approach, minus

Say what you want about Karl Rove, he is one astute political animal. In the above clip, he hangs Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide) out to dry for attempting to put the BP oil spill on the Bush Administration, roasts Obama for constantly blaming his problems on the previous administration and weighs in on Sestak-Gate: Obama Administration officials last year short-circuited the process and allowed Transo...

You have to love John Yoo, the Bush Administration lawyer who helped formulate legal opinions on enhanced interrogation techniques. After being slimed by the Obama Administration and then cleared for the simple reason that his legal basis was rock solid, he says farewell with a genteely raised middle finger: Barack Obama may not realize it, but I may have just helped save his presidency. How? By w...