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partisan overhype either, but the personal back-and-forth, the name calling and a purely partisan unwillingness to compromise has created an unusual environment for this State of the Union — a country without
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Abrams “embodies the American Dream.”
“I know a temper tantrum when I see one.”
Lara Trump — the president’s daughter-in-law who presumably does not have to worry about car payments — said about the hardships of federal workers in a recent interview, “It is a little bit of pain
They have said and done things that create obstacles to reaching agreement on a Southern border “wall” and on ending the government shutdown.
As Rothstein said, “You may or may not agree with the particular decision, but you recognize the courage” it took to make it.
Why did I even mention that part?
Budgeting is central to nearly everything Congress does, the cornerstone of its Article I authority.
OPINION — A die-hard Democrat said to me at the gym, “Somebody has to MAKE Michelle Obama run for president.”
Boy, I stunk up the joint in 2016. I was sure that Donald Trump wouldn’t — couldn’t — win the presidency, and I said so without any “ifs” or “buts.”
In a number of my previous columns, I argued that Republicans needed to put their focus on voters and the economy to make what has almost always been “the No. 1 issue, the No. 1 issue.”
When asked about the violent episodes that shook America in the weeks before Nov. 6 and whether he should soften his tone, he boasted about the economy, said he was “sad” to see the violence, and
and what I will be focusing on as an election analyst when the first numbers begin to pour in.
said this about the 2018 election: “It comes down to an economic message. … We have many other issues that we care about.
OPINION — I’m not sure anyone enjoyed John Boehner’s speakership as much as I did covering him and his new majority in 2011 and 2012.
When all voters were asked to define the Democratic agenda, for example, 66 percent said it was stopping President Trump and his policies, and only 21 percent said it was a clear set of policy initiatives
That said, the fundamentals I gleaned early on continue to guide me in my daily interactions. Strength in numbers First, nothing of significance in Washington is ever done alone.
And it has been Chuck Grassley, the GOP chairman of the Judiciary Committee on which Flake serves, who has limited Thursday’s hearing to Kavanaugh and his original accuser Christine Blasey Ford — without
Without a woman on that committee, real justice for Anita Hill seemed impossible to the millions of women across the country watching it unfold.
“The best thing about being governor, and the only thing I really miss about it, is that I didn’t go home any night without feeling I had done something for somebody,” Kean said.