Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley, writing in the voice of America’s next Bush, tells you about the dynasty’s great defender.

Instead of telling Americans who lost their shirts in the financial crisis why Wall Street shouldn’t be regulated, why not allow the Democrats to pass the bill and own the victory—and its consequences?

It was a grand mistake to fire David Frum. Dad would agree.

Now, the GOP is grousing that Obama has appointed former Sen. Alan Simpson—a Republican!—to a blue-ribbon deficit-reduction panel because he’s too “moderate.” Christopher Buckley on the latest Washington circus.

In a revelatory Q & A, Christopher Buckley explains that health insurance is well and good, but driving the country into bankruptcy isn’t going to help anyone in the long run—and why we’d all be better off if Warren Buffett were president.

A frisky, fun keynote by Beck, an encouraging straw poll that left Palin with a happily meager 7 percent—CPAC showed that for better or worse, the GOP is fired up and ready to go.

As CPAC continues its right-wing celebration this weekend, The Daily Beast’s Christopher Buckley (politely) takes on his first cousin, Brent Bozell III, and the other signers of the Mount Vernon Statement, for trying to redefine conservatism by updating his father’s original manifesto—when all they’re really doing is bashing Obama.

Obama didn’t deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the performance, Mr. President.

Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley procured an early draft of President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union speech.

Homeland Security, with its $42 billion budget, is a giant bureaucratic disaster. Christopher Buckley wonders who, really, is in charge.