Re-emerging Bush offers more reflective views
WASHINGTON – Former President George W. Bush, on his recent trip to Africa, toured Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. He then sat down for an interview that may qualify as...
View ArticleTry to keep count of Obamacare repeal tries
WASHINGTON " Well, this is embarrassing. Republicans have made so many attempts to repeal “Obamacare” that the scorekeepers have lost count.“Republicans,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...
View ArticleU.S. needs McCain, and he’s back
WASHINGTON – The Senate was out of session Monday, but John McCain was on Capitol Hill, joking, as he often does, about “trying to do the Lord’s work here in the city of Satan.”On this particular day,...
View ArticleUndermining Obamacare may bring D.C. to a halt
WASHINGTON " House Republicans, in their final days at work before taking a five-week vacation, have come out with a new agenda: “Stop Government Abuse.”A more candid slogan might be: “Stop...
View ArticleObama can’t be both a socialist and in bed with the rich
WASHINGTON " Republicans need to make up their minds: Is President Obama a socialist or a corporate stooge?“The president claims his economic agenda is for the middle class. But it’s actually for the...
View ArticleThe presidency not an 11-month job
WASHINGTON – The Gallup polling organization reported Monday that President Obama has had a particularly pronounced summer swoon each year of his presidency, and that August typically brings his lowest...
View ArticleNo protection for whistleblowers
WASHINGTON – President Obama, in his news conference this month, said that Edward Snowden was wrong to go public with revelations about secret surveillance programs because “there were other avenues...
View ArticleAmericans don’t want a secret war
WASHINGTON " John Kerry was making his “beyond a reasonable doubt” case against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday when he gave lawmakers a bit of faulty intelligence.“Just today, before coming in...
View ArticleCowering before Cruz not an option
WASHINGTON " Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the conservative provocateur enjoying a reign of terror over his Republican Party, committed his latest outrage last week, saying the men and women of the U.S....
View ArticleObama watching and bobbing, not leading, on Syria plans
WASHINGTON – What is the Obama administration plan in Syria?It depends on whom you ask and when.At 9 p.m. Tuesday, President Obama, in his address to the nation, said that he had “asked the leaders of...
View ArticleCruz’ filibuster attempt more about himself than Obamacare
WASHINGTON – A couple of hours before Sen. Ted Cruz launched his doomed filibuster, his Republican colleagues staged an intervention.They called him to the Strom Thurmond Room off the Senate floor,...
View ArticleObama can win standoffs with uncharacteristic resolve
WASHINGTON " If President Obama can stick to his guns, he will win his October standoff with Republicans.That’s an awfully big “if.”This president has been consistently inconsistent, predictably...
View ArticleGOP looks a bit uncertain with shutdown strategy
WASHINGTON – I almost shut down the government.As I waited outside a meeting of the House Republican Caucus in the Capitol Monday afternoon, I put down my briefcase next to a flowerpot and walked...
View ArticleGOP’s lifeboat strategy shows shutdown priorities
WASHINGTON – Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists arranged 20 child-size chairs on the lawn outside the Capitol on Wednesday to represent 19,000 children who could lose access to Head Start...
View ArticleName still racist, despite bad poll
WASHINGTON – You know a guy is in trouble when he hires Lanny Davis as his lawyer.Davis has developed a specialty representing Third World dictators and questionable businesses since his days as a...
View ArticleSupreme Court has ensured political dysfunction
WASHINGTON – There’s a certain irony in the Supreme Court remaining open while much of the federal government is shut, for the high court created much of the dysfunction that cripples Washington...
View ArticleObama pitches defective product
WASHINGTON – Not since the Ginsu knife cut through an aluminum can and still sliced a tomato has America seen a pitch quite like the one President Obama delivered in the Rose Garden on Monday.“The...
View ArticleHow could president not know?
WASHINGTON – For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration.On Sunday night, The Wall Street Journal reported that he...
View ArticleU.S. owes world honest account of drone-warfare program
WASHINGTON " From Washington, the drone-warfare program looks almost aseptic: Remote-controlled aircraft fire with precision on targets half a world away.But on Tuesday, this anonymous form of warfare...
View ArticleLoss of public’s trust could mean game over for Obama
WASHINGTON – His signature initiative is on the ropes – Down in the count! Fourth and long! – but President Obama remains strangely sportsmanlike.“We fumbled the rollout on this health care law,” he...
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