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- 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...
- Health Care Battle Brewing - June 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- While headlines talk about a "fight" over the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is...
- Beyond Bork? Don't Count On It - June 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When a Supreme Court nominee such as Judge Sonia Sotomayor comes before the Senate for confirmation, she is promised a full, fair hearing. In fact, every...
- The Burris Ethics Challenge - May 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader; the choice was not in his hands. When the Illinois Democrat...
- Sotomayor Choice is Delicate Matter for the GOP - May 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is as close to certain as anything gets in Washington that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to the Supreme Court. What impact she will have there is...
- One Worthy Debate - May 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- That was a rare and splendid moment when the president of the United States and the former vice president offered their sharply contrasting views on...
- Commander in Chief Now - May 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- No new president finds that every aspect of the job suits him at once; some duties are inevitably more comfortable than others. What we have witnessed in...
- Futile Gestures, or Bold Opportunity? - May 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the "line-by-line" review...
- Missed Opportunity for Budget Sense - Washington Post - May 9, 2009
- The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the "line by line" review long promised by...
- The Conservative 'Happy Warrior' - May 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On the very day last week that Jack Kemp, the former quarterback, congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate, succumbed to cancer, other Republicans...
- Can the Big Three Survive? - May 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When I was in high school, my parents gave me 15 shares of General Motors stock, worth maybe $600, and a lecture on investing in America. This is a great...
- The Defector - April 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's been more than four decades since Arlen Specter, the senator from Pennsylvania, earned the nickname "Specter the Defector." This week, he confirmed...
- Stop the Scapegoating - April 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If ever there is a time for President Obama to trust his instincts and stick to his guns, that time is now, when he is being pressured to change his mind...
- Obama's First 100 Days - April 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As we approach the 100-day mark for the Obama administration, you will hear and see a wide variety of grades for the new president's performance. Remember...
- The Crucial Role of the Independents - April 12, 2009
- First, the data that shouts that I am wrong. No vote is more important in encapsulating the approach of the two parties to the basic issues of governing than the vote on...
- Baseball, By the Book - April 9, 2009
- And best of all, the baseball season has begun. This week, fans of every team, even the woeful Washington Nationals, can imagine them being this year's Tampa Bay...
- A Bipartisan Success Story - April 5, 2009
- But eight days earlier, when the Senate approved a slightly modified version of the House-passed national service act by an overwhelming 79-19 vote, the atmosphere...
- Obama Flexes His Muscles - April 2, 2009
- Had the editors of the Economist waited a few days, I doubt they would have made that judgment. On Sunday night and Monday morning, word leaked out of Detroit that...
- Choked on Debt - March 29, 2009
- The real threat is the monstrous debt resulting from the slump in revenues and the staggering sums being committed by Washington to rescuing embattled banks and...
- Mr. Cool's March Madness - March 26, 2009
- I blamed my poor prognostication performance on the distraction of the 2008 presidential primary campaign, then at its height. This year I was determined not to...
- End of the Honeymoon - March 15, 2009
- Obama still enjoys broad public support, but it is stronger for him personally than for his policies. Some of those policies are bafflingly complex, and all of them...
- The Country's Loss - March 12, 2009
- I know it was a sudden decision, because I had had breakfast with him that morning. He thought at the time he could ride out the storm caused by his outspoken...
- Education's Chance of a Lifetime - March 8, 2009
- Most of that money will go directly to states and school districts to help them avoid the teacher layoffs and college tuition hikes this sickening economic slump is...
- Running on Empty - March 5, 2009
- In its first six weeks in office, the administration has launched hugely expensive and ambitious programs, not only to spur employment and arrest a sickening slide...
- Illinois' Mr. Clean - March 1, 2009
- Quinn, 60, had been bouncing on and off the public payroll ever since the early 1970s, when he was given a patronage job by the later-convicted Gov. Dan Walker....
- Obama Rolls The Dice - February 26, 2009
- Most politicians, facing an economic crisis as deep as this one -- the threatened collapse of the job market and manufacturing, retail and credit systems here at...
- New Eyes On Bigger Prizes - February 22, 2009
- Its greatest strength is reportorial. Well before Barack Obama set out to win the presidency, Ifill began interviewing not just Obama, but the dozens of his...
- Obama Can Still Use the GOP's Help - February 19, 2009
- In the same day's New York Times, James Morone, a Brown University political scientist, said that all of American history shows bipartisanship to be a myth. "Kind...
- Next Issues Will Be Even Harder for Obama - February 15, 2009
- Predictably, President Obama has had a shaky introduction to his new duties. Talented as he is, he had never previously been asked to assemble an administration, to...
- House Ideologues Surprise Biden - February 12, 2009
- So, while the Obama administration labored to move its giant fiscal stimulus bill through the House and the Senate, Jill Biden, who is starting her new college teaching...
- The GOP Faces the Blue Wall - February 8, 2009
- But now the Republican electoral lock has been replaced and surpassed by "the blue wall." That's the term Ronald Brownstein, the political director of the Atlantic...
- Gregg Will Help Move Entitlement Reform - February 5, 2009
- The immediate loss is much greater than the gain, but the payoff on Gregg, the third Republican in the Cabinet, will be substantial down the road. For now,...
- Take Time to Get the Stimulus Right - February 1, 2009
- Last week the $819 billion tax and spending bill passed the House with all but 11 Democrats supporting it and not a single Republican voting yes. The first...
- Hard Times for Political Dynasties - January 25, 2009
- And it came just two weeks after the heir apparent to the Bush family dynasty, former Gov. Jeb Bush, had taken himself out of consideration for the Senate seat that...
- Born to Build Bridges - January 22, 2009
- Certainly, the country wearied of that incessant battling between Democrats and Republicans. In an interview last summer, John McCain remarked on the cheers he...
- The Call That Bush Didn't Make - January 18, 2009
- Some cite failures ranging from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo to Hurricane Katrina and the neglect of the environment and the working class. But for all the...
- Health Care Diplomacy - January 15, 2009
- In the first term, it was Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin; and in the second, Mike Leavitt of Utah. Both were leaders of the National Governors Association, where I...
- Obama Gets a Feel for the Game - January 11, 2009
- Fortunately for Obama, the voters are much more concerned with the economy and Obama's effort to fix it than they are with the infighting over the Illinois Senate seat. ...
- Tales From Longworth - January 8, 2009
- Every new member has his own story. Walt Minnick's is more unusual than most. For one thing, he is only the second Democrat to hold his House seat in the last...