RECENT ARTICLES
-
Taking Day Off for Football Costs Dems Credibility
House Democrats lost considerable credibility Monday when their opening session was cancelled so that members could attend the Ohio State-Florida State football game. This is not a joke. It is, however, a blunt metaphor for how genuinely out of touch | Read More »
-
Barack Obama Can Be Whatever He Wants To Be
Those who deride Sen. Barack Obama’s (D.-Ill.) lack of experience and criticize the broad generalities and banalities that festoon his best-selling book miss the key point: His inexperience is an asset because he enters national politics as a blank canvas | Read More »
-
Dems’ ’08 Race is Hillary’s to Lose
The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination will come down to two candidates: Hillary vs. the Un-Hillary. Sen. Clinton is so polarizing and a female candidacy is so novel, that the race for the nomination must revolve around her. | Read More »
-
If Congress Is Serious About Reform, Here’s What It Looks Like
-
Hillary Can Win But Mustn’t
Now that Hillary has dropped the coy pretense of indecision that she used to justify her reelection to a Senate seat she no longer wants and has told friends that she plans to run for president, two questions present themselves: | Read More »
-
The Bottom Of The Barrel
With the recent defeat of Sen. George Allen (R.-Va.) and the surprising withdrawal of Sen. Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.) from the presidential race, the right wing of the Republican Party is running out of candidates for president in 2008. For the | Read More »
-
Women Want A Woman President
Almost a hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud famously asked, “What do women want?” In political terms, the answer is unmistakable: What women want is a woman president. And their voting preferences are showing how strongly they feel. According to the | Read More »
-
No End to Democrats’ Civil War
Flush with victory, the Democratic Party is celebrating its return to power by loudly and publicly tearing itself to pieces. Anyone who wondered if House Democrats would be as reliable as the Republicans in supporting their leaders had only to | Read More »
-
Oust John Boehner and Roy Blunt
Will the GOP return to 1994 surge to power or not?
-
Off With Their Heads
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has been a disaster and the rest of the House and Senate leadership has not been any better. The lean, ascetic, ideological purity of the Gingrich Republicans of 1994 had yielded to the corrupt, feather-your-own-nest | Read More »
