Print Patrick Caddell Read Full Bio The Fuse Has Been Lit: Seven Critical Points on Uncle Sam’s Spying Program The sordid revelations from the Obama administration are coming at a pace that can only be described as, well, fast and furious. So let’s lay down some markers here, as a sort of road map for the months and years ahead. 10 Jun 2013 Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama Yet once again, those who seek to know the full truth about what has happened to America during the Obama years need to keep their eye on the key figure. And that key figure is not Eric Holder, any more than it is Hillary Clinton. Instead, the key figure is Barack Obama. 15 May 2013 Don’t Blow It on Benghazi: The Focus Must Be Obama, NOT Clinton America could be on the cusp of a great victory--a victory for accountability and truth. The Benghazi debacle is, at last, breaking into the public consciousness. Indeed, in its outlines, finally visible as the coverup unravels, Benghazi is starting to look like a scandal, bringing up memories of an earlier scandal, Watergate. Yet the Republicans could still blow it, not only for themselves, but much more importantly, for the country. They could blow it, that is, if they make the terrible mistake of turning an honest and necessary inquiry about the events of 2012 and 2013 into a contrived exercise in political positioning for 2016. 13 May 2013 Caddell: Gabriel Sherman 'An Embarrassment to the Journalistic Trade' Yes, Stewart was a member of the Carter White House speechwriting staff, reporting to chief speechwriter Hendrik “Rick” Hertzberg. But in truth, he was more of a helper, and perhaps a stage-manager--but certainly not a principal author--of that famous speech. Matters of presentation and delivery are important, of course, to any politician, and so if Stewart had been content simply to define himself as a stage-manager, I would have had no complaint. 30 Mar 2013 Why Romney Lost - Part I Sorry, Mitt, whether you want to admit it or not, it was your campaign. These were your people, many of them with you for a decade a more, and you stuck with them till the bitter end. You not only own them, you paid a pretty penny for them. 17 Dec 2012 Obama’s Arrogant Overreach—and the Republican Opportunity In the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, the Republicans are in desperate need of a game-changer. That is, the current dynamics in Washington DC are so bad right now for Republicans that they are likely to go ofIf Obama is seen as a fellow who wants to move the economy to a better place by raising taxes on the Koch Brothers, he will win. But if Obama is seen as an arrogant and unconstitutional power-grabber, he will lose. f a political cliff. 3 Dec 2012 Can the Republican Party Avoid the Fate of the Whigs? If present trends continue, the Republicans will likely soon fall out of political viability; and the Grand Old Party will be the Grand Defunct Party. They are well on their way to becoming the 21st Century incarnation of the Whigs. 30 Nov 2012 We Can Do Better: An America That Can Imagine Itself In this series, we will ask: What happened to Mitt Romney? We will also ask a more interesting question: What happened to the Republican Party? That’s a more enduring question, because long after Romney disappears from the scene, the fate of the Republican Party will have a huge impact on the fate of the nation. 28 Nov 2012 The October Surprise and the November Election Republicans need to be ready for this, and ready with a response. After all it, was the Reaganites who popularized the phrase “October Surprise” in 1980--when it wasn’t needed. And so now, in 2012, when it might well be needed, they need a plan for a dog-wagging “late hit” in 2012. That is, if something big happens in the next few days, they need to provide the sort of context that Sen. Portman provided on the Iran-negotiations story. And they should start now. 28 Oct 2012 The Meta-Issue of the Presidential Debates Sometimes you can win the battle and yet still lose the war--and that could well be the story of Barack Obama in his third debate against Mitt Romney. 24 Oct 2012 Previous 1 2 Next
The Fuse Has Been Lit: Seven Critical Points on Uncle Sam’s Spying Program The sordid revelations from the Obama administration are coming at a pace that can only be described as, well, fast and furious. So let’s lay down some markers here, as a sort of road map for the months and years ahead. 10 Jun 2013
Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama Yet once again, those who seek to know the full truth about what has happened to America during the Obama years need to keep their eye on the key figure. And that key figure is not Eric Holder, any more than it is Hillary Clinton. Instead, the key figure is Barack Obama. 15 May 2013
Don’t Blow It on Benghazi: The Focus Must Be Obama, NOT Clinton America could be on the cusp of a great victory--a victory for accountability and truth. The Benghazi debacle is, at last, breaking into the public consciousness. Indeed, in its outlines, finally visible as the coverup unravels, Benghazi is starting to look like a scandal, bringing up memories of an earlier scandal, Watergate. Yet the Republicans could still blow it, not only for themselves, but much more importantly, for the country. They could blow it, that is, if they make the terrible mistake of turning an honest and necessary inquiry about the events of 2012 and 2013 into a contrived exercise in political positioning for 2016. 13 May 2013
Caddell: Gabriel Sherman 'An Embarrassment to the Journalistic Trade' Yes, Stewart was a member of the Carter White House speechwriting staff, reporting to chief speechwriter Hendrik “Rick” Hertzberg. But in truth, he was more of a helper, and perhaps a stage-manager--but certainly not a principal author--of that famous speech. Matters of presentation and delivery are important, of course, to any politician, and so if Stewart had been content simply to define himself as a stage-manager, I would have had no complaint. 30 Mar 2013
Why Romney Lost - Part I Sorry, Mitt, whether you want to admit it or not, it was your campaign. These were your people, many of them with you for a decade a more, and you stuck with them till the bitter end. You not only own them, you paid a pretty penny for them. 17 Dec 2012
Obama’s Arrogant Overreach—and the Republican Opportunity In the “fiscal cliff” negotiations, the Republicans are in desperate need of a game-changer. That is, the current dynamics in Washington DC are so bad right now for Republicans that they are likely to go ofIf Obama is seen as a fellow who wants to move the economy to a better place by raising taxes on the Koch Brothers, he will win. But if Obama is seen as an arrogant and unconstitutional power-grabber, he will lose. f a political cliff. 3 Dec 2012
Can the Republican Party Avoid the Fate of the Whigs? If present trends continue, the Republicans will likely soon fall out of political viability; and the Grand Old Party will be the Grand Defunct Party. They are well on their way to becoming the 21st Century incarnation of the Whigs. 30 Nov 2012
We Can Do Better: An America That Can Imagine Itself In this series, we will ask: What happened to Mitt Romney? We will also ask a more interesting question: What happened to the Republican Party? That’s a more enduring question, because long after Romney disappears from the scene, the fate of the Republican Party will have a huge impact on the fate of the nation. 28 Nov 2012
The October Surprise and the November Election Republicans need to be ready for this, and ready with a response. After all it, was the Reaganites who popularized the phrase “October Surprise” in 1980--when it wasn’t needed. And so now, in 2012, when it might well be needed, they need a plan for a dog-wagging “late hit” in 2012. That is, if something big happens in the next few days, they need to provide the sort of context that Sen. Portman provided on the Iran-negotiations story. And they should start now. 28 Oct 2012
The Meta-Issue of the Presidential Debates Sometimes you can win the battle and yet still lose the war--and that could well be the story of Barack Obama in his third debate against Mitt Romney. 24 Oct 2012
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Walter Reed plans to furlough thousands; soldier advocacy groups worry about care despite assurances18 Jun 2013, 1:34 PM PDT