The Obama Quagmire

Column: How Chuck Hagel and the sequester stalled the president’s agenda
Obama speaks to Organizing for Action / AP

Never let it be said that President Barack Obama won’t admit his mistakes. “What we don’t want to do is repeat the mistake I think I believe in 2008 we made,” he told a rather paltry crowd of inaugural donors to his “social welfare” group Organizing for Action during dinner at the St. Regis hotel Wednesday. “Where some of that energy just kind of dissipated and we were only playing an inside game.”

The Hollow Men

Senate Democratic budget’s defense cuts would hollow out military, hawks warn
AP

National security hawks say the budget cuts outlined in Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray’s (D., Wash.) budget blueprint ignore spending recommendations from President Barack Obama’s top military brass and could “hollow out” defense.