“To The Right Of The Muslim Brotherhood”?

WTF does David Ignatius mean by that phrase?

It’s very interesting that one of the groups that supported the coup was the more conservative Salafist group known as the Nour Party to the right of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Does that make any sense at all? What is he saying? That they support lower taxes? Traditional marriage? Smaller government? What?

While “Left” and “Right” aren’t particularly enlightening words in discussion of domestic politics, it’s really stupid to talk about Middle East politics in those terms.

Nemesis

Is Victor Davis Hanson’s long-time prediction finally approaching?

The young, inexperienced, but haughty Obama is a stereotypical figure right out of Greek mythology. Sometimes he is poor arrogant Icarus — flying too high on his frail and melting waxen wings. Or is he arrogant young Phaethon? The latter demanded the reins of his father’s sun chariot — only to end up in flames as his out-of-control divine car scorched the earth (unfortunately we are the earth). Often Obama seems a know-it-all Oedipus who believed that he was so smart that the far older world of chance and fate had to yield to his superior reason. Or is he vain Narcissus, so taken with his image in the reflecting pool that Nemesis allowed him to stare forever transfixed at himself?

…Then Nemesis struck. Not Republicans in the House, not right-wing judges, but Obama himself tabled much of the most important parts in the implementation of the bill. For now he has almost killed off his own offspring, not in the promised most transparent fashion in the history of the presidency, but cheaply and perhaps cowardly on a little read website at the start of a long holiday. It is as if the president can pick and choose which laws he administers and which he simply ignores, but is terribly ashamed to admit such.

I think that little stunt destroyed whatever little chance Obama had of getting an immigration bill to his liking. Anyway, read the whole thing.

[Early afternoon update]

As I said, you should really read the whole thing. It’s about a lot more than health care.

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