Opinion · 115th Congress
What a Green Wave Can’t Hide — It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
</p> Money is a resource, not an outcome.</p> Elections, in the end, are won or lost based on ideas and solutions.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Speaker Pelosi? Maybe. Tea Party Redux? Not if She Can Help It
Bill Greene said 2019 likely won’t serve up the same wild ride his former boss was treated to.
Opinion · 115th Congress
The Case of the Missing President — in House Debates
Somehow he missed an attack on George Soros and Bill Clinton’s sexual history.
Opinion · 115th Congress
It Turns Out Democrats Are Really Bad at Getting Mad
</p> Too little anger breeds a sense of complacency and decreases the urgency of voting.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Memo to GOP: You’ve Got a Winning Message and It’s Not Pelosi
</p> ICYMI: Paul Ryan Says “Entitlement Reform” Will Continue in 2019</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> A bold beginning The Republican plan was as simple as it was ambitious: to lower the tax burdens on small
Opinion · 115th Congress
Kavanaugh Fight Goes Full On Knute Rockne
</p> Watch: McConnell Says Protesters Won’t ‘Intimidate’ GOP Senators</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> On the gridiron Now “team” matters above all, and that includes consideration of what may be best for the
Opinion · 115th Congress
‘Evidence’ Is the Word of the Year. Neither Party Owns It
</p> </p> While these reforms may not have made headlines, they are significant. Here are four examples: </p>Home visiting The George W.
Opinion · 115th Congress
The Rush to Judgment on Kavanaugh Is the Ultimate ‘Con Job’
</p> Watch: Trump on Believing Kavanaugh Allegations — ‘I Have to Watch Tomorrow’</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Pause for thought But as a potential swing vote on a committee with 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats
Opinion · 115th Congress
Either Kavanaugh Goes Down or the Republicans Do
</p> Huge Crowds, Long Lines, Tight Security: What Capitol Hill Was Like on Ford, Kavanaugh Hearing Day</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> What also backfired was the decision by the timorous all-male committee
Opinion · 115th Congress
I’m Just Tired of All of It
</p> Watch: How and Why Many Key Officials Have Exited the Trump Administration</p> [jwp-video n=”2″]</p> I’m tired — really, really tired — of the hypocrisy.
Opinion · 115th Congress
How the Republicans Fell for Trump’s Overconfidence Game
</p> Think about this for a moment.
Opinion · 115th Congress
What’s Missing From Bob Woodward’s Book? Ask Ben Sasse
</p> Sure, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell get occasional walk-on roles when the topic turns to the tax bill, and there is a brief anecdote about Steve Bannon plotting to replace the Senate majority leader
Opinion · 115th Congress
What Would Pete Domenici Think?
In 1997, along with his House counterpart John Kasich and President Bill Clinton, he achieved the extraordinary goal of a balanced federal budget for the first time in over 40 years, and maybe the last
Opinion · 115th Congress
This Is Not Your Father’s Bible Belt. Can Dems Make It Theirs?
</p>A big tent?
Opinion · 115th Congress
If Congress Wants More Lions, It’s Time to Change the Habitat
</p> It goes on. In 1981, a Democratic House passed President Ronald Reagan’s historic tax cut bill. In 1996, President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich reformed welfare as we knew it.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Kavanaugh’s First Stand Was the Blandest Thing Since White Bread
</p> Kavanaugh, a veteran of the Kenneth Starr investigation of Bill Clinton, had no problems with Star Chamber tactics as he pushed for aggressively questioning the president in graphic terms about his
Opinion · 115th Congress
Just When You Least Expect It — A Congress That (Sort of) Works
</p> ICYMI: Senate GOP’s Tribute to John McCain</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Take a bow, chairmen By all accounts, credit for getting the bills this far goes to the two veteran legislators leading the Appropriations
Opinion · 115th Congress
What John McCain and That Thumbs-Down Meant to One Family
I regularly grabbed him in the Senate basement or outside the chamber to ask about overruns on the F-35 fighter jet or progress on the massive annual Pentagon policy bill.
Opinion · 115th Congress
What John McCain Didn’t Do
</p> Watch: Lawmakers Remember McCain as ‘Patriot,’ ‘Friend’</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Keeping the faith I’d rather believe that the Senate is still a place where someone believes that some things are