Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up 0
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Gail Collins on the proposed House resolution to name the late Michael Jackson a “global humanitarian”:
America is a sea of woe these days, and we want to believe our elected representatives are spending every waking minute trying to help. Deep in our hearts, we know that many of them wouldn’t know what to do with a problem if they had it captured in a glass jar with no air holes. But we prefer not to be reminded of their uselessness by hearing that they spent their time arguing about whether the King of Pop deserves a posthumous ceremonial commendation.
If you can’t do anything serious, guys, it’s really better not to do anything at all. Spend your free time in prayer and contemplation.
David Broder says that Sarah Palin and Robert McNamara “teach a couple of important lessons about the way to handle exits from high office.”
E.J. Dionne on President Obama’s meeting with the Pope today:
The disjunction between Vatican attitudes toward Obama and those of the most conservative forces inside the American Catholic Church has been obvious from the moment Obama won election.
The conservative minority among the bishops as well as political activists on the Catholic right have insisted on judging the president only on the basis of his support for legal abortion and stem cell research. [...]
But the pope and many of his advisers also see Obama as a potential ally on such questions as development in the Third World, their shared approach to a quest for peace in the Middle East and the opening of a dialogue with Islam.
Karl Rove continues to get paid for spouting Republican talking points, today hitting the stimulus and health care. Best line of the column:
The administration consistently pledges unrealistic results that it later distances itself from.
Do you really want to go there, Karl? “Mission Accomplished,” Niger, WMD, victory, victory, victory …
Daniel Henninger just can’t get over President Obama’s refusal to follow in George Bush’s footsteps of nation-building.
Suzanne Fields waxes poetic about Sarah Palin and she gives Rich Lowry a run for his money while doing so:
By resigning as governor of Alaska she forfeited the image of the dark mare racing to the White House, but that was our fantasy, not hers.
Roger Cohen on the epic battle between Andy Roddick and Roger Federer in last Sunday’s Wimbledon men’s final.
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