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- 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...
- One Bad Idea - September 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric...
- A Scary Season For Obama - August 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I sure hope that President Obama and his family enjoyed their week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, because what he faces on his return to Washington is...
- Kennedy Tackled Life Head-On - August 26, 2009
- When I first encountered him in Beckley, W.Va., in the spring of 1960, Ted Kennedy was an impossibly handsome 28-year-old, campaigning for his big brother in the...
- Robert Novak, Washington Giant - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Before Bob Novak created the self-parody as "The Prince of Darkness" that his friends and TV fans enjoyed so much, he had two other journalistic...
- Health Care Protesters Playing with Fire - August 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Watching the muscular tactics being used in congressional town meetings by some opponents of health care reform, I keep thinking somebody should remind the...
- Sotomayor's Potential Impact - August 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia...
- The Blue Dogs and the Bloc Party - August 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When several members of the Blue Dogs, a moderate-conservative Democratic faction, met last week with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate the deal that...
- One Healthy Competition - August 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Here's an irony for you: The health care bills in Congress are getting better, even as support for them diminishes around the country. It is just as well...
- Peering Through Judicial Camouflage - July 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There was never much doubt that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed for the Supreme Court. Her inspiring personal biography and her evident legal...
- Putting Teeth into Medicare Reform - July 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Americans are familiar with -- if not altogether comfortable about -- unelected officials exercising great authority over our lives. The nine justices on...
- A 'Pay-Go' Full of Loopholes - July 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There is less than meets the eye to the Democrats' "pay-go bill," the lavishly touted gesture toward fiscal responsibility that the House passed on...
- Will the Current Proposals Fix Health Care? - July 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sooner than anyone had anticipated, President Obama's drive for health reform has reached a crucial decision point -- one that may well determine the fate...
- The Battle Will Continue - July 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The combination of an over-rehearsed witness and opposition senators fighting without much ammunition robbed the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings of...
- Health Care's Rocky Path - July 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's welcome home from his latest successful overseas trip is clouded by the growing doubts about his most important domestic initiative, the...
- Two Bad Exit Strategies - July 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Two vastly different public officials -- Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin -- shared the spotlight this past week, triggering fresh thoughts about one of the...
- 60 Dems, But on Risky Footing - July 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats -- at least on paper --...
- Do We Still Need Race-Conscious Remedies? - July 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial...
- Without Bush, He's Own His Own - June 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In a conversation the other day with a White House official, I heard something I'd never expected from an employee of Barack Obama's. "I wish," he said,...
- Daschle, Dole and a Bipartisan Solution - June 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health care reform, his goal in life was to enlist...
- The Stakes for Obama This Fall - June 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor, taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia, would be seen by many people outside those...
- Will Obama Insist on the Public Option? - June 11, 2009
- The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70...