McCAIN BLASTS OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP – AT 11:29 A.M. ET:   A reminder that the so-called "Republican establishment" has a great deal to say that is correct and useful.  From the Washington Examiner: 

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., lambasted the foreign policy strategy the Obama administration has employed over the past seven years on Sunday.

"Under this administration, we've been on a holiday from American leadership. Too often, President Obama has adopted a cheap fatalism about America's role in the world," McCain said in the weekly Republican address released Saturday.

"No matter the challenge, we're told that there are no good options, that our influence is limited, that we will not succeed overnight, that there is no military solution, and that we can't solve every problem," McCain said. "These are truisms, but none of them absolve us of our responsibility to make the situation better where we can. And the results of our failure to do so are clear to see."

COMMENT:  McCain, of course, is correct.  There was a time, especially during the Reagan era, when America showed that it had learned the lessons of the 1930s and 1940s.  But a new generation knows little of those past struggles, and the GOP is clearly losing the spirit of Reagan.  John McCain seems at times like a lonely, forgotten voice.

Please note that Churchill was also a lonely, forgotten voice, until events proved him right.

May 1, 2016