Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

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John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly. by Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

john-kerry order

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

restless chairs energy

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideolo... by Rich Lowry

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

multiculturalism logic suicide

I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.

world needs thinking

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

nukes politics matter

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three nationa... by Rich Lowry

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

presidential three different

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

decision mouths opposites

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

mean america people

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the r... by Rich Lowry

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

penguins march example

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves... by Rich Lowry

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

france matter america

I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for like this Doug Band memo from a Clinton crony in black and white who explained the Clinton Foundation was a profit center for Bill Clinton and people around him.The Russians didn't make that up, that was all Hillary's [Clinton] vulnerability her own.

black-and-white people thinking

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of thei... by Rich Lowry

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

violence parent children

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

dad nice mom

Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

real war country

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

russia taken trying

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside... by Rich Lowry

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

debate levels years

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. by Rich Lowry

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

falsity campaigns political

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

comedian bills fun

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaign... by Rich Lowry

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

trump agendas cutting

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well... by Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

wells fake-people able