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- The Option is Obama's - February 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- It was toward the end of President Obama's riveting visit on Jan. 29 with the House Republicans in Baltimore -- a rare 90 minutes of candor on both sides...
- Reform's Option, Amid the Ruins - February 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation. A sentence buried in...
- Getting Ready to Battle Over Ads - January 31, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The sober, sprawling State of the Union address President Obama delivered last week was marked by one extraordinary moment. It came when the president...
- At Moment of Truth, Betrayal - January 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- On the very same day this week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that the succession of previously unimaginable trillion-dollar- and-more budget...
- John Cornyn's Good Fortune - January 24, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- If you are John Cornyn, the 36 hours from last Tuesday night through Thursday morning had to be the best time of your life. Cornyn, the junior senator from...
- For Democrats, A Wake Up Call - January 21, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- When I talked with Rep. Richard Neal, the veteran Democratic congressman from Springfield, Mass., on the afternoon of the special election to fill Ted...
- Obama's Year One - January 17, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- As Barack Obama nears the first anniversary of his inauguration as president, a faculty friend of mine renders what strikes me as the right assessment: "If...
- Labor Raised the Ante - January 15, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The best thing about American labor leaders is that they don't beat around the bush. Judging from the reports I've heard from both sides, the union leaders...
- Chris Dodd: Straight Shooter - January 10, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- During the last three decades that I have been covering politics in Washington, there was never a time when I could not reach Chris Dodd to check what was...
- Bomb Attempt Will Likely Alter Obama's Agenda - January 8, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Was Christmas Day 2009 the same kind of wake-up call for Barack Obama that Sept. 11, 2001, had been for George W. Bush? The near-miss by a passenger flying...
- Napolitano Flavors the Administration - January 2, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest...
- A Warning Obama Should Heed - December 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a...
- A Health Care Victory That Stinks - December 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The health care reform bill coming out of the Senate presents a real dilemma for spectators: How do you applaud while holding your nose? There is so much...
- One is the Loneliest Number - December 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to...
- Dishing Out Some Shock on Debt - December 18, 2009
- The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of key...
- What Obama's Words Tell Us - December 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of the things that sets Barack Obama apart from most politicians is how much can be learned from listening to his speeches. The president is sometimes...
- Senate Freshmen Step Up - December 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Finally, there is some good news on the health care front. The headlines went to a possible compromise on the contentious issue of the public option, but...
- The High Cost of Escalation - December 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On the same evening last week that President Obama went to West Point to outline his plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to fight the Taliban and...
- Year of Living Dangerously - December 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is now as certain as anything can be in politics that 2010 will be a painful year for Democrats -- a year of high unemployment, staggering deficits and...
- Budget-Buster in the Making - November 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors...
- A Budget-Buster in the Making - Washington Post - November 21, 2009
- It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its...
- Picking a Fight is GOP Tradition - November 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly...
- Make a Decision, Mr. President - November 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to...
- A Bill That Doesn't Pay the Bill - November 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral...
- Trouble Ahead for Democrats - November 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A year after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued...
- Prelude to a 2010 Drama - November 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health care legislation still languishes, but in...
- Reid's Risky Gamble - October 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There is an air of desperate improvisation to Sen. Harry Reid's scheme to pass a "public option" as part of health care reform, but at the same time...
- Budget Sleight-of-Hand - October 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no...
- Raising the Debt Ceiling - October 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the...
- Delaware's Battle for Washington - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A year from now, when we are in the final weeks of the midterm elections, voters across the country will likely be focused on a state that has rarely drawn...
- Your Plan Now, Mr. President - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It has taken much longer than President Obama hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can -- and must -- put his personal stamp on his main...
- A Heavy Question for Our Politics - October 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep. Joe Wilson of South...
- Allies At Odds on Health Care - October 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of the intriguing mysteries of this year is why the initial broad support from American business for overhauling the health care system has not...
- Will the Real President Stand Up? - October 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama has reached the moment of truth for answering the persistent question about his core beliefs and political priorities. The coming votes in the...
- Chicago -- Go For It - October 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- He may have bigger challenges now and in years to come, but nothing will endear Barack Obama to some of us more than his decision to take a quick...
- Team Obama - September 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For President Obama, last week was rather like a major exam on his skills as a diplomat and architect of foreign policy. He can count on being tested again...
- Mr. Policy Hits a Wall - September 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A brand-new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as...
- In the Muddled Middle - September 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the early 1970s when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering...
- The First Strike in a Trade War? - September 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In an economic debate measured by staggering multibillion-dollar sums and unemployment figures logging in the hundreds of thousands, the stakes in the...
- Now Try the Tough Stuff - September 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A great speech is a combination of words and music, of content and color, of substance and emotion. When the speech is as important as the health care...