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Robert Robb

Robert Robb is a columnist for the Arizona Republic and a RealClearPolitics contributor. Reach him at robert.robb@arizonarepublic.com. Read more of his work at robertrobb.com.
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  • Democrats Miscalculate on Health Care - October 30, 2009
    • My guess is that Democrats have badly miscalculated the politics of health care reform. They were in a political bind to begin with. Democrats are motivated by a sincere...
  • Is This Obama's Economy Yet? - October 21, 2009
    • Is this Barack Obama's economy yet? Congressional Republicans are trying to make it such. Their constant refrain, and taunt, is: "Where are the jobs?" The Obama...
  • Iran Tests Obama's New Diplomacy - September 30, 2009
    • Iran is providing a premature and very high-risk test of President Barack Obama's new approach to American diplomacy. Simplified, the thesis of the new Obama approach is...
  • Big Deficits in Baucus Health Care Plan - September 22, 2009
    • While being roundly criticized from all sides, the health care reform advanced by Sen. Max Baucus is widely thought to at least have the virtue of not adding to the...
  • America is Suffering Sticker Shock - September 19, 2009
    • Now that Barack Obama has lost considerable political altitude, many conservatives are saying that he over read his mandate. This fits the caricature of Obama as an...
  • Cheney Wins Interrogation Argument - September 2, 2009
    • The only fair conclusion from the CIA interrogation documents released last week is that former Vice President Dick Cheney largely won his argument with President Barack...
  • Obama's Health Care Whopper is Bigger - August 22, 2009
    • Health care reform supporters claim they are losing public support because of lies and distortions told by opponents designed to scare people. There's some of that going...
  • Supremes Shouldn't Have Ducked on the VRA - June 24, 2009
    • Chief Justice John Roberts came to the U.S. Supreme Court with a mission. He wanted the court to begin deciding cases on the narrowest possible terms and, if possible,...
  • The Interrogation Blame Game - May 20, 2009
    • The blame game is in full bray in Washington over enhanced interrogation techniques. The Bush administration engaged in torture, claim the Democrats. Key Democrats,...
  • Obama, Health Lobby Use Misdirection on Reform - May 13, 2009
    • The country is about to have a very frustrating debate over health care, characterized more by misdirection than an honest discussion of the alternatives. A good...
  • Chrysler Restructuring Plan a Power Grab - May 6, 2009
    • The proposed end games for General Motors and particularly Chrysler illustrate why government shouldn't have gotten involved in the first place. It's worthwhile to begin...
  • An Inconvenient Reality - April 24, 2009
    • The pending decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to designate greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, as a threat to human health and welfare probably...
  • Geithner's Radical Takeover Proposal - April 2, 2009
    • Nevertheless, there are some highly critical lines that should not be crossed if the essential character of our system of democratic capitalism is to be maintained....
  • It's Time to Regulate Recreational Drugs - March 18, 2009
    • The United States should be a country dedicated, in part, to the protection of individual liberty. Such a society should be highly circumspect about the behaviors it...
  • Americans Lose Gift for Practical Living - February 27, 2009
    • But it can also become a dangerous delusion. And, with respect to the American people, it may be yesterday's news.The United States has been historically distinctive....
  • A Better Way to Help Homeowners - February 20, 2009
    • Assuming government officials can fix housing assumes that they know how many homes should be bought and built and what they should cost. They don't. No one does. That's...
  • Bad Ideas for Stimulus Cash: Construction, Housing - February 6, 2009
    • The Democrats propose that the federal government build new stuff for virtually everyone. The Congressional Budget Office has already noted the constraints that exist on...
  • The Right Way to Fix Our Financial Institutions - January 28, 2009
    • To address that problem, the Bush administration asked Congress for up to $700 billion to buy those assets and take them off the books of the financial institutions....
  • Can Obama Eradicate Cynicism? - January 20, 2009
    • George Washington was indispensible to the founding of the Republic. Abraham Lincoln was indispensible to preserving it. And King was indispensible to beginning the...
  • Washington's Economic Folly - January 18, 2009
    • These are unprecedented levels in the post-World War II era. They exceed previous records by large margins. The previous highs were reached in 1983, 6 percent of GDP for...
  • Huntington's Cultural Premise Worthy of Consideration - January 10, 2009
    • According to Huntington, the Cold War had held in abeyance a reshaping of the world order based upon culture, primarily from ethnicity and religion.Nation-states would...
  • A Conservative Hope for Obama - November 10, 2008
    • Nevertheless, I have some hope that some good will come from the Obama presidency. He may usefully define the limits of responsible liberal governance, as Ronald Reagan...
  • Both Parties Should Lose in this Election - October 23, 2008
    • If Democrats gain unchecked power, the one thing it is most clear they would do is to abolish the secret ballot for union elections. Even the so-called "conservative"...
  • Thank The House For Rejecting an Ill Conceived Plan - October 1, 2008
    • The legislation purported to instruct the treasury secretary to buy distressed securities at the lowest possible price for taxpayers, using market mechanisms such as a...
  • Country Owes the House a Big Thank You - Arizona Republic - September 30, 2008
  • Dem Platform is for Whiners - August 29, 2008
    • Note the disdain for the ethos of self-responsibility. Democrats do not merely regard it as insufficient. Instead they regard the idea that people should provide for...
  • Confrontation Won't Work With Russia - August 20, 2008
    • The ambitions of the communist Soviet Union were universal. It wanted to remake the world in its image.It promoted the spread of communism throughout the globe. It...
  • West Won't Support Change in Status Quo - August 13, 2008
    • To which, the most brutally relevant question is: So what?Russia clearly has a strategic objective of Finlandizing the Caucasus.During the Cold War, the West was...
  • Politicians Can Set the True Cost of Energy - August 6, 2008
    • The developing world is actually developing. The conditions that lead to economic growth are now widely known, if still very imperfectly practiced.Meanwhile, much of the...
  • Obama a Citizen of the World - July 30, 2008
    • There were two significant points about the speech. The first is that it wasn't apologetic.There is a strong consensus in Europe that the United States is too backward...
  • The Fed Buys What No One Else Wants - July 23, 2008
    • Recently, the stock prices for Fannie and Freddie fell precipitously, to roughly a quarter of their previous peak. That represents a sharply revised judgment by...
  • Which World War Is It? - July 18, 2008
    • World War IV is against Islamic jihadism. Podhoretz prefers, as does much of the conservative commentariat, the term "Islamofascism." That, however, is misleading. In...
  • Nothing Gained By Not Talking - Arizona Republic - May 23, 2008
  • A Grownup Relationship with Israel - Arizona Republic - May 16, 2008
  • Obama Will Get Blue-Collars in November - AZ Republic - May 9, 2008
  • The Iraq Conundrum - Arizona Republic - April 11, 2008