Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

TGIF! The pundits feel the same way.

Eugene Robinson:

Remember that long-ago news conference when George W. Bush couldn't think of any mistakes he had made? Unbelievably, he still can't.

David Brooks: I'm tired of blaming the auto unions for our current economic woes. Instead, let's blame the teachers union for our educational woes. [upstate NY suggests Brooks consider merit pay for CEOs in his next column].

EJ Dionne:

Already, there is grumbling that Obama shouldn't try to do anything special with the stimulus; only old-fashioned programs need apply. The critics are grousing: How dare Obama try to use the crisis to transform the country!

Kathleen Parker: Oogedy-boogedy. There, I said it again.

Charles Krauthammer: Our merger with Iraq is the single most important political milestone since the Council of Vienna. Ask Metternich Henry about it. He likes to talk about the Council of Vienna.

Henry Kissinger: I approve of what Obama is doing. OTOH, no one asks me about Krauthammer, and no one cares.

Michael Gerson: We kept American safe. If you ignore 9/11, anyway. And we handled natural disasters. Except for Katrina, and the last couple of hurricanes. And it's all due to our creative reading of the Constitution (and our selective memory), so critics, STFU. The public gets it. They give us proper credit for the job we've done.

Rosa Brooks:

Mumbai should remind us -- again -- of the folly of the Bush administration's "war on terror." Terror is an emotion, and terrorism is a tactic. You can't make "war" against it.

Added
Media Matters:

On The O'Reilly Factor, Dick Morris predicted that Sen. Hillary Clinton would challenge President-elect Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in the 2012 presidential election. But some of Morris' past attempts at political prognostication have been wildly off the mark. Morris' latest prediction is also inconsistent with his assertion in April that "[o]bviously, if Obama beats [Sen. John] McCain, Hillary is out of the picture until 2016."