Obama must focus on debt
Despite all the time and tweets the president and his team have devoted to more “economic speeches,” they know what the country needs, and what President Obama requires — for any hope of a legacy — is...
View ArticleA divided GOP will fall
Buy a ticket and have a seat — the curtain is up on the GOP’s implosion as high-profile Republicans considered future leaders and presidential contenders insult and accuse each other, hurling enough...
View ArticleBack on the defensive again
Ah, the August recess. Formerly the sleepy, hot, dull, four-week period (now five weeks) when members of Congress left town and politics became silenced. Those were the good old days — for them,...
View ArticleBreak the silence on Syria
Two years into a civil war that has cost more than 100,000 lives, the United States is now “responding” to a violation of an “international norm.” Yes, striking Syria after its president launched...
View ArticleSyria a risk for Rubio
Sen. Rubio — it’s Sheldon Adelson on line one. Just kidding.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s decision to vote against a resolution authorizing a military strike against the Syrian regime has a few things in...
View ArticleSyria unsolved
Sure, you might think President Obama woke up Wednesday breathing a sigh of relief, having been thrown a life raft by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who convinced his dictator buddy Syrian President...
View ArticleBoehner’s dilemma
Prospects for President Obama’s embattled domestic agenda come down to the following six words: Let’s hope John Boehner gives up. From any hope for a grand bargain on tax reform or entitlement reform...
View ArticleCruz’s ruse
If only Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had been correct last March when he criticized House Republicans for their “meaningless show votes” to repeal ObamaCare, insisting that Congress could defund it with the...
View ArticleNegotiate a debt deal now
President Obama has made the right move — a first in a long while — to begin negotiations with Republicans about the government shutdown and the coming debt-ceiling fight. As fruitless as GOP tactics...
View ArticleGive a break to Boehner
As frosty as the rhetoric will get in this last week leading up to a deadline for default, the ice is actually melting. Tuesday’s press conferences from a combative President Obama and an exhausted...
View ArticleAfter the shutdown
On substance, and as a matter of policy, the “deal” Congress passed to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling does nothing. But it does stop the bleeding, provide a pause and pay back federal...
View ArticleLook to Ron Johnson
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is so preoccupied by our fiscal crisis he calls himself a “one-trick pony” and a “broken record.” But during the government shutdown, the Tea Party conservative wandered into...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Broken promises
From Solyndra to Benghazi, the “Fast and Furious” operation, the IRS scandal and the revelations that the National Security Agency was spying on our close allies, President Obama never seems to know...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: In Christie’s footsteps
Getting reelected with 60 percent of the vote in a blue state wasn’t going to get New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie any thanks or praise from fellow Republicans, and he knew it. So the morning after, he...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Try, try again
Sure, former President Clinton hit President Obama in the political nose, insisting Obama find a way to right the wrong of his broken promise about people keeping their current healthcare plans, but...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: ObamaCare in disrepair
President Obama is frustrated that Republicans won’t help clean up his mess. After passing a partisan law upending one-sixth of the private economy without GOP support, the president is lamenting that...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Empty talk from Obama
With all eyes on the continuing saga of the ObamaCare rollout, it’s easy to lose track of the fact that the administration is publicly contemplating a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, which would...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Paul Ryan’s ride
Leaders aren’t necessarily those we find in the highest office, or those who campaign for it, or those we see on television the most. True leaders make unpopular choices. They have the guts to take the...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: GOP must change
OPINION l President Obama has plunged in popularity in the 14 months since he stunned Republicans by getting reelected with 51 percent of the vote, causing even his own supporters to question whether...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Christie still a contender
Vice president Biden will not run for president if Hillary Clinton does. That’s a pretty safe sentence to type. California Gov. Jerry Brown has now taken a pass on the race; Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
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