A.B. Stoddard: Time has come for reform
Partisan acrimony is at fever pitch, the campaign for congressional midterm elections is in high gear and the president’s signature accomplishment, the unpopular healthcare law, could cost his party...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: The descent of Obama
OPINION l Well, that’s it. President Obama has likely addressed his last large audience, before his party faces probable losses in the midterm elections this November, and given his final State of the...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Clinton’s craft
This is rich. Some great minds in Obama-world feel they must embarrass Hillary Clinton in order to save her — right now. And good thinking, because the presidential campaigns of candidates who haven’t...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Boehner: A true leader
It is the end of the “Boehner Rule” — a victory for President Obama, the final chapter in the bitter budget battles between Democrats and Republicans that have eroded confidence in the U.S. economy for...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: GOP in a mess for 2016
Democrats are busy changing the subject these days: to the minimum wage, climate change, income inequality, the 2016 presidential election — anything but ObamaCare. So you can imagine their excitement...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: An easy veto in Arizona
Editor's Note: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced a veto of S.B. 1062 prior to the release of the print edition of this column. It’s hard to recall a GOP bill passing a state legislature that was so...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Just the facts on 2014
The enrollment numbers for the Affordable Care Act skyrocket while unemployment plummets? A rash of ethics and sex scandals breaks out in the Republican conferences of both the House and Senate?...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Rand Paul, kingmaker
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s landslide win in the CPAC straw poll was predictably dismissed as insignificant and nearly rigged by the overwhelming majority of young voters who now dominate the...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: GOP must diversify to win
Republicans anticipate a big election in November: the GOP is expected to hold its majority in the House of Representatives and possibly win control of the US Senate. Then, a divided party, struggling...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Adelson all in for 2016
It’s great news for Jeb Bush, the entire Republican Party and even embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, but it stinks for Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, and Hillary Clinton as well. Casino mogul...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: ObamaCare must change
Reaching more than 7 million new enrollments in an unpopular healthcare program, using a still breaking website, is indeed a formidable accomplishment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And in touting...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: The art of compromise
Last week, as Republicans questioned the administration’s new ObamaCare enrollment numbers and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked the Koch brothers on the Senate floor, Sen. Chris Coons...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Growing the GOP
The GOP’s trip to the wilderness, after the crushing defeat of Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the last presidential election, doesn’t look like it will end before the next presidential election, and...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Dems on thin ice for 2014
Amid a torrent of fresh and frightening polling, Democrats are clinging to some comforting silver linings: flush war chests, a few strong individual polls, a robust gender gap. But it will be months...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Santorum has a shot
Sure, the GOP 2016 presidential field is wide open; the party is divided; so much has changed; and the Republicans need a Bigfoot to go up against Hillary Clinton, should she become the Democratic...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Tea Party left in the dark
The bums are back. After years of anti-incumbent fervor among Republican voters, those stale Washington insiders have made a comeback, handily winning primaries in Kentucky and Idaho, along with the...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Obama, replace Shinseki
Though President Obama has earned a reputation for his too-little, too-late responses to crises, he has a chance to promptly choose new leadership for the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs and...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: Obama’s Bergdahl blunder
Perhaps President Obama stumbled into an announcement of the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl that was ignorant and insulting to those who serve our country in uniform, but his subsequent reaction to the...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: No surprises from Clinton
Thank goodness. At long last, Hillary Clinton is on her book tour — another account of her life about her life that risks nothing, reveals less and gets tons of press. It couldn’t be more boring.We all...
View ArticleA.B. Stoddard: What is the IRS hiding?
My parents didn’t spend much time warning us kids about vandalism, petty theft or mail fraud, but much was made of the attention and focus we would need as adults when it came to our finances, because...
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