The Wilderness
[Also available in green]That the Republican Party is demonstrating fractured views on foreign policy is only one small part of a much greater state of generalized disarray. The most obvious problem...
View ArticleMarco Rubio is Being Groomed for 2016
[Also available in green]Something I noticed in January, when Marco Rubio unfurled his support for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, was that many voices on the right who...
View ArticleJohn Boehner and the Sequester
[Also available in green]If you've been following the debate over the impending "sequester," you have probably seen liberals quoting Speaker Boehner saying that he got 98 percent of what he wanted in...
View ArticleTreat the Tea Party Like the Addicts They Are
[Originally in green]Jonathan Bernstein is correct that you can tell who the target audience for an opinion piece is by looking for the "to-be-sure" paragraph. The "to-be-sure" paragraph is intended...
View ArticleWho Broke the Very Fabric of the Senate?
[Originally in green]The following excerpt raises so many issues:As senators in 2005, Obama and Biden publicly defended the filibuster and the requirement of a supermajority to change Senate rules....
View ArticleAbout That Ubiquitous Atwater Rosetta Stone Confession
[Also available in White and Green]I don't know if everyone is talking about race because Congress is deadlocked and, well, we have to talk about something more than Ukraine and the missing jet...
View ArticleA Heat-Fever Bacchanalian Feast of Stupid
[Also available in green]Charles Krauthammer is clearly nervous about the House Republicans' decision to go Full Metal Benghazi by creating a Select Committee to look into...what? So, he has some...
View ArticleWill Anyone Read This?
[Cross-posted in green]So, the DSCC is moving in with a big buy in South Dakota. So what? You don't live there, so what do you care? Hell, it exhausts me to even think about trying to explain the...
View ArticleRuth Marcus is the Latest "Liberal" Columnist to Defend Dennis Hastert
Looking at my archives, I realize that I’ve written about Ruth Marcus more often than I thought. It has never been flattering.Typically, I say things like “If Ruth Marcus suddenly sounds like Jane...
View ArticleOf Course, Trump Will Never Win
It’s gotten to the point that it appears almost like a nervous tic. Pundits and political scientists feel like it’s absolutely necessary to preface anything they have to say about Donald Trump with a...
View ArticleCoalition Government: How to Fix the House of Representatives
Ever since 2007, when the independent socialist Bernie Sanders graduated from the U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, the House has been made up of some combination of 435 Republicans and...
View ArticleOn Bob Bennett and Donald Trump
Bob Bennett died on May 4th from complications after suffering a stroke while trying to fight off pancreatic cancer. He was 82 years old. Until 2010, he was a U.S. Senator representing Utah, but he was...
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