Ron Paul says farewell, Elizabeth Warren says hello, Mitt Romney says drop dead
As I have written before, I very much regret that Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has decided to leave the Congress. I have always applauded his campaign for openness at the Federal Reserve Board and his...
View ArticleGore is right, Christie is right, Rubio is wrong
I have long thought that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could well be the next Republican star waiting to emerge. Rubio certainly has the presidential bug. Unfortunately for Republicans, he also has the...
View ArticleScott Brown should announce he won't run for the Senate if John Kerry is...
Reading the Friday New York Times and watching the cable news, it appears that Senate Republicans are nominating Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) for the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize...
View ArticleSenate Republicans publicly repudiate Bob Dole
I am a lifelong, proud Democrat. But, even though I have a lot of friends who are Republicans, I’m glad I’m not a member of today’s Republican Party. Because today’s Republican Party is just too damned...
View ArticleThe question of compromise
Tea Party hero Sen. Jim DeMint, who jolted Washington Thursday with the news he would leave to head the conservative Heritage Foundation, has found his rightful home. The U.S. Senate was just not his...
View ArticleThinking big; thinking small
Mike Simpson is thinking big. Barack Obama is thinking small. Simpson, an Idaho Republican, recently spearheaded a bipartisan letter in the House urging negotiators to go big when dealing with the...
View ArticleSeparation of powers
The separation of powers is an essential element of our constitutional structure. It is designed to limit aggregation of power at the federal level at the expense of the people and to foster...
View ArticlePelosi's fiscal-cliff ace in the hole
In my latest column, “Les GOP Misérables,” I wrote that the GOP obsession with pursuing losing issues (e.g., cutting Medicare and Social Security) has led to recent defeats and will lead to more. The...
View ArticleHistory and change: On Daniel Inouye
It had been 31 years since a bunch of American businessmen had organized a coup against the monarchy that had ruled Hawaii for generations when Daniel Inouye was born. His parents came from Japan, and...
View ArticleThe cliff looms
There was an agonizing irony to the frenzy on Capitol Hill yesterday as the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda and GOP leaders scurried about trying unsuccessfully...
View ArticleThe Senate vote: Rand Paul/Mike Lee 2016
The Senate vote last night was a touchstone event, a benchmark, if you will, to mark the progress of history. It is, in that regard, much like the Senate vote to approve George W. Bush’s...
View ArticleThe emergency dividing Republicans
After a fierce response to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) decision to delay consideration of relief legislation for victims of Hurricane Sandy, the House went ahead and voted Friday on the bill...
View ArticleThe Boehner-Cantor tango
Don't miss the excellent story by Bob Cusack and Molly K. Hooper in The Hill about the latest intrigues involving House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).One wonders...
View ArticleWaiting for Ted Cruz
“You’ve got to make concessions; you’ve got to compromise,” said Wolf Blitzer in that solicitous MSM salon of salons named like muscle-bound Mike of “Jersey Shore,” “The Situation Room.” He was...
View ArticleThe art of compromise
It is good that our nation is engaging in a necessary discussion on the importance of curbing gun violence. It is critical to realize that there is no single solution and all sides will need to give....
View ArticleHillary Clinton 69, Rand Paul 10
I was not planning on writing any more pundit blogs this week, but I do have a brief comment about Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) outburst at the Benghazi hearing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton....
View ArticleTed Cruz slanders war hero, embarrasses Texas and violates Armed Services...
The hearings to consider the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) began with two great statesmen endorsing Hagel and ended with a freshman Republican senator embarrassing his state and the...
View ArticleWhat the mainstream media don't understand about Ted Cruz
Don’t blame Ted Cruz, he’s only doing what he said he would do if elected.The wave of national media attention surrounding the freshman senator late last week followed a traditional groupthink pattern....
View ArticleBring back Mark Sanford
There are probably more kinds of stupid, but two especially come to mind: stupid of the head, like Chuck Hagel’s visions of Israel, and stupid of the heart, like Mark Sanford's. Louisiana Gov. Bobby...
View ArticleThe Republican suicide caucus
The good news is that the House has finally passed the Violence Against Women Act. The reauthorization of the 20-year-old law is now headed to the president’s desk after previous defeats by House...
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