Over at A Loyal Opposition aloyalopposition.in, we have posted our interview with Pete Buttigieg who has opened an exploratory committee to run against Richard Mourdock for State Treasurer.Here is a brief excerpt: It is more than apparent that Pete Buttigeig (pronounced Boot-uh-jig) is a guy who could do all sorts of very interesting and lucrative things. It begs the question why ...

In a couple of editorials, "A Loyal Opposition" and "No Substitute for Victory," this magazine has urged conservatives and Republicans to ... themselves to try to win a war, as opposed to get out of a war when the going gets tough. But the Republicans, I think, will be a loyal opposition. They will support the president. The president simply needs to be patient, give the -- ...

Chris Matthews: Where did KSM go to college? Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL): Probably Harvard.Wouldn't you know, Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) went to Stanford and Northwestern, the latter being one of the top ten law schools in the country (Harvard being another). Glib, idiotic "elitist" card play FAIL. KSM attended a Baptist college in North Carolina. Video (lol@'the Boston Manicure&# ...

Oops! David Cameron gets it half right.. It seems David Cameron, the Leader of Britain’s Conservative Party (and widely tipped to be the next Prime Minister) is in a spot of trouble over getting his facts wrong about a British Muslim school, which he claimed received £113,000 of taxpayer’s money under a government scheme to combat Muslim extremism. Well, if he was a follower of   ...

Meanwhile, on the minority side of the aisle, the Republicans are once again showing they aren’t just finely-coiffed dandies. No, they are taking this whole financial-meltdown-troop-escalation-unemployment-crisis-cult-of-personality-take-over-one-sixth-of-the-economy mess seriously. We can’t just be the guy who says, “Nuh-uh.” We have to present a bold alternative vision, ...

Just so you know: We're against it. We were against it before, and we're still against it. We thought it was a terrible idea when President Obama proposed it, and we still think it's a terrible idea. It was terrible when it went through the House of Representatives. And it's terrible now that it's in the Senate. If it gets through the Senate, it will still be ...

... Iran will "show no mercy" toward opposition protesters seen as threatening national security, a judiciary ... agency. Witnesses said scuffles occurred between students loyal to opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and others who support ... sentences, have so far failed to keep Iranians off the streets or quash the opposition. "They feel they are being humiliated by the system. As long ...

... support of the voters. The second is to continuously undermine and discredit the opposition PR (Pakatan Rakyat - People' ... economic liberalisation policy but it still needs to keep its Malay base loyal," said Ibrahim Suffian, director of Merdeka ... fundamental conditions and rights, but neither the ruling BN nor the opposition PR is representing the needs of this class. Recently, some leaders ...

... into focus. My comments to follow: Dual Citizenship -- Loyal to Whom? by Dan Eden Someone wrote and asked me, " ... Issues Since citizenship carries with it a responsibility to be exclusively loyal to one country, the whole concept of dual citizenship ... series of international policies which can be viewed as in direct opposition to the interests and security of the American people. These acts ...

... rights battles of the 1950s and 1960s. The Democratic Party of the 1800s was considered the party of landowners who owned slaves, while the GOP was viewed as a more radical party, Walters said, because of its opposition to slavery. In 1964, Senate Democrats led a 57-day debate on the landmark Civil Rights Act that ended only when 27 Republicans joined 44 Democrats to cut off the debate. Twenty- ...

... Karzai was driven to an act of similar political suicide given the lack of a loyal opposition. This weakened his position even further. Karzai is quite literally consumed by paranoia. At ... half of what General McCrystal's requested, but Obama has come through in spite of severe opposition in his own party. It is very well possible that 30,000 troops are too few to force a breakthrough in the ...

... Peter Feaver about the president's plan for Afghanistan deserving the support of us loyal opposition. It deserves only our qualified support; there are some quite bad elements that deserve our ... : The president is trying to persuade his own party to support his policy. There is a precedent we loyal opposition could help steer President Obama toward: the flagrant prevarication committed to by ...

... staging an irate public statement before going off for an early weekend. And yet, whether they are in power, or in the role of Loyal(?) Opposition, one thing stands out as consistent -- republican grumpiness and ... goes to the floor of either house. Because, given the predictability of lockstep GOP opposition, only with a completely united democratic caucus can there be any chance of passing any ...

... especially bad public policy for the South. No one doubted the sincerity of their opposition, even if many found it abhorrent. The congressional Republicans of today, however, seem ... . But in combination they have fostered a political culture that elevates partisan combat over responsible governance. The "loyal opposition" now seems more interested in ensuring its "ascendency" ...

... any other ideas now other than "oppose everything Obama does until we can be rid of him." Obama Derangement Syndrome is now the new default for the right.  Bill Kristol: What is the loyal opposition to do? Oppose Obama's destructive proposals (health care, cap and trade) and try to defeat them. Expose the foolishness of Obama's ...