If Hillary Clinton hasn’t been marginalized enough already, her job seems now to have been mostly subcontracted to John Kerry: “He’s not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Senator John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama’s global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation’s image around the world. ” So what is it that she does?

Can’t make this up: Nancy Pelosi (of the-”CIA-lied”-deer-in-the-headlights press conference) says Dick Cheney’s criticism of the president’s dithering on Afghanistan was “not dignified.”

The Right blogosphere rallies around John McCormack — and calls for Dede Scozzafava to get out of the race. This may be a case study for future campaigns on what not to do.

Newt Gingrich is having a hard time explaining why he backed Scozzafava.

Not even a Tzipi Livni video for J Street?

James Taranto: “President Obama’s promise to empty the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has run into a little obstacle: It turns out the place is full of terrorists! Like everything else, this is not Obama’s fault. The terrorists are there because George W. Bush put them there, leaving poor Obama once again stuck cleaning up someone else’s mess.”

Tucker Carlson on the White House’s anti-Fox crusade: “Since when does the federal government get to make programming decisions, much less decide what is and what is not a legitimate news organization? Where did political consultants—people who spend their lives lying to reporters—get the moral standing to make pronouncements about journalistic ethics?” Really, where are the so-called civil-liberties groups? If the Bush administration had tried to organize an MSNBC boycott, those folks would have had a fit.

Chris Christie may have snagged an October surprise.

When Obama says Republicans just do “what they’re told,” you really wonder if he understands he’s president and no longer just an upstart politician. Really, what president has ever stooped to such crass rhetoric to characterize millions of voters? I thought we were not Red States and Blue States but the United States of America.

Charles Krauthammer doesn’t think much of the White House’s war on Fox: “Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily. … Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.”

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