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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: End of year roundup of this, that, and the other thing [1]
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Date: 2022-12-30
What an absolute humiliation this would be for Kathy Hochul. She would be the first governor in the history of New York State to have a Court of Appeals nominee blocked by the state Senate. A state Senate controlled by a supermajority of her own party, no less.
https://t.co/53NSzhJP2a
Here’s the story behind the tweet.
Lee Drutman/Atlantic:
Sinema’s own words show the fallacy in her reasoning. “While Arizonans don’t all agree on the issues, we are united in our values of hard work, common sense, and independence,” she wrote in The Arizona Republic , announcing her newfound political identity. What is “united in … independence”? How do we agree on anything if we are all independent?
What I’m getting from these “just stop masking!” pieces is that deep down, some people feel so guilty about not masking that they’d like everyone to stop… so they can stop feeing guilty. 🤔
David Rothkopf/Daily Beast:
Biden’s Midterm Foreign Policy Report Card
There were surprising successes and dispiriting disappointments—but overall a transformative rejuvenation of America’s international standing.
The Clinton years saw the post-Cold War world with naïve hope and a focus on free markets that compounded inequality.
The George W. Bush years were shaped by 9/11, and came to stunningly misguided conclusions—from reordering U.S. national security policy to focus on the (grossly overstated) threat of terrorism, to launching a war of choice in Iraq that quickly proved to be a grotesque error, almost certainly the worst in modern U.S. foreign policy history.
Barack Obama offered hope and soaring rhetoric, but a presidency that was far too cautious in taking major steps on the international stage. And Trump was, of course, a disaster, undercutting the U.S.’ international standing, cozying up to enemies, and attacking our allies and alliances.
Then along came Joe Biden.
He entered office with more foreign policy experience than any president in U.S. history and a strong international team. But he is Joe Biden. He is not a soaring speaker like Obama. He is not brash in the way that Dubya Bush or Dick Cheney were. He is not the made-for-TV president that Trump was. He is dull, older, kind of gray. It is tempting to say that many of his successes in his first two years have been due to the fact that he is easy to underestimate. (And he was underestimated, most notably by Vladimir Putin.)
But that would be selling him short. Because in two years, half a term, Biden has not only demonstrated the greatest foreign policy mastery of any U.S. president since George H.W. Bush, but has transcended his achievements by being the first president to create a post-Cold War foreign policy that meets the moment—one defined by a recognition of new priorities, threats, opportunities, and challenges.
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