GOP: “Contractually-Bound?” By Howard Rich
Seeking to capitalize on the righteous indignation voters are feeling toward President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of Republican politicians is dusting off an old playbook.
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March 5, 2010
March 5, 2010
More On “One Giant Government Leap Backwards” By Lawrence Kudlow
Rather than a post-partisan olive branch to congressional Republicans and the American public, President Obama’s latest health-care speech was a declaration of war.
March 5, 2010
2010 Primaries: Gauging Anti-Incumbent Sentiment By Rhodes Cook
The 2010 primary season is under way, which at the congressional and gubernatorial levels is often no more than a quiet backwater in America’s electoral process. In recent years, only a few such incumbents have lost their bids for renomination, and only a handful more have had to break a sweat.
March 5, 2010
Will Senate Say Aloha to Racial Discrimination? By Michael Barone
What's the worst piece of legislation before Congress associated with the letter H? Most conservatives and Republicans, many moderates and independents, and even some liberals and Democrats would answer: one of the health care bills.
March 4, 2010
The Politics of Earthquakes By Joe Conason
If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, perhaps it is that government regulation could save your life -- while right-wing ideology may kill you someday.
March 4, 2010
Obama Not Gutless After All By Froma Harrop
The right accuses Barack Obama of dragging the country way left, and the left calls him gutless. The president is proving both of them wrong.
March 4, 2010
Stark, Raving, Maryland By Debra J. Saunders
Before she became House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi promised that if Democrats won control of the House, she would "drain the swamp" in Washington. How is she doing?
March 3, 2010
My Toyota By Susan Estrich
It was a great car. A 1981 Toyota Corolla, white with blue interior, and no extras. Exactly $5,000 -- $1,000 down, the rest financed. To be honest, I really wanted a Honda Accord. My mother had one, and what a dream that car was. But it was also $1,000 more, and while that might not sound like so much, believe me, it was. So I "settled" for the Toyota. After nine years behind the wheel of a 1972 yellow Ford Maverick, it seemed like a very significant step up.
March 3, 2010
Placing Our Faith in Economic Oracles By Tony Blankley
One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people agree with it, and thus, it is likely to win the day -- but lose the verdict of history.
March 2, 2010
Why Americans Hate Washington - By Debra J. Saunders
In January, the Senate joined the House in passing "pay-as-you-go" rules to require Congress to pay for new discretionary spending. On Feb. 12, President Obama signed the bill.
March 2, 2010
The Terrified American Shopper By Froma Harrop
Americans who shopped till they dropped have stopped. Per capita consumption is down for two straight years, according to Booz & Company's new study of U.S. spending behavior. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression.
March 1, 2010
Dems' Health Strategy Doesn't Add Up to a Win By Michael Barone
"More talk, no deal" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on Thursday's Blair House health care summit. "After summit flop, Democrats prepare to go it alone on Obamacare," proclaimed the headline here at The Washington Examiner. These were appropriate verdicts if you viewed the summit as an attempt to reach bipartisan agreement or even a limited consensus.
February 28, 2010
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Fantasyland By Debra J. Saunders
The villain in "A Time to Run," Sen. Barbara Boxer's first novel, is a conservative writer for The San Francisco Chronicle. A salvo at moi? Hardly.
February 26, 2010
Playing Nice By Susan Estrich
A funny thing didn't happen today. People were not plugged in to their televisions, computers or radios. Someone did stop me at lunch to ask what I was having (the chicken salad), but no one solicited the latest on what was going on in Washington. There was no buzz. Can we be frank? Nobody is watching.
February 26, 2010
Zazi Case Vindicates Justice By Joe Conason
Before Najibullah Zazi is finally dispatched to a secure cellblock for good, it is important to remember how the taxi driver-turned-terrorist was brought to justice -- and why the critics who jeered his civilian prosecution were dead wrong. By convicting Zazi and pursuing the leads that his capture and interrogation have provided, the FBI has shown that traditional American methods -- rather than the "enhanced interrogation" and military tribunals favored by the right -- are highly effective instruments of national security.
February 25, 2010
Obama's Nanny Care Insults the American Spirit By Michael Barone
You are victims. You are helpless against the wiles of big corporations and insurance companies, and you need protection. You need the government to take over and do things you cannot do for yourself.
February 25, 2010
Americans Can Speak for Themselves on Health Care By Froma Harrop
Have you voted on any of the Democratic health care reform plans? Me neither.
February 25, 2010
Jerry Brown Flies Below the Radar By Debra J. Saunders
With the other name Democrats out of the race, Attorney General Jerry Brown basically has a lock on his party's primary election. That's good for Brown, who won't have to blow millions of dollars on a primary. But it's only good if Brown can win in November.
February 24, 2010
For the Love of Hersh By Susan Estrich
When I was growing up, we never had a dog. My mother told us we would be too sad when it died. She was not one for that "better to have loved and lost" business. Loss, to be spared at all cost, could at least be avoided on the pet front by not having one. Later, my brother got a cat, but when he and my mother moved into an apartment, the cat went to the farm.
February 24, 2010
Governing Ourselves: The American Passion By Dick Morris
With his up-to-the-second published polls, Scott Rasmussen has revolutionized the way politics is practiced in America. Now, in his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, he bids us all remember that the real political debate is not left vs. right, but rather between being governed by a bureaucracy and self-governance.
