Both links via RCP:
Edmund Burke on Sarko's election. This is a revolution he likes. By the way, I read his new book this winter. Essential reading. I think I read it in college, but forgot all of it.
E.J. Dionne: The Left is Reeling. Dionne is a real person, but he always makes for a perfect straw man anyway.
And also, Chirac's Legacy, at Ace