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“The ‘Fraidy Cat Group”: Why We Probably Won’t Get Another Government...
So we probably now have a short-term continuing resolution set to expire in January. Does that mean another shutdown in January, after the two sides can’t reach an agreement? After all, that’s what...
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“How’s About You And Him Fight?”: Get Ready For A Whole Lot Of Hillary Vs...
Hillary Clinton has about a year and a half before she needs to make the final decision on whether she’ll run for president in 2016. Between now and then, and after she becomes an actual candidate (if...
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“This Is How Obamacare Works”: Listen Up Dipsticks, You Can’t Fix Health...
Bill Clinton has been one of Obamacare’s most effective advocates—the “Secretary of Explaining Things,” as President Obama famously called him. But in a new interview already getting attention and sure...
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“Can We Please Get A Grip?”: Having The Backbone To Set Minimum Standards For...
Democrats are showing once again they have the backbones of banana slugs. The Affordable Care Act was meant to hold insurers to a higher standards. So it stands to reason that some insurers will have...
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“A Sobering Reminder”: The Number Of Uninsured Americans Increased By 7.9...
The week President Obama took office, initial jobless claims, the statistic that immediately gauges layoffs, hit a 26-year high with 637,000 applying for unemployment insurance in one week. It was...
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“An Undead Policy Idea”: Rand Paul Pulls Out His Dog-Eared Playbook
Sen. Rand Paul decamped in Detroit today to open a new GOP office (good luck with that), and while he was at it, pulled out his thin, dog-eared playbook of conservative urban policy ideas, as reported...
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“Blinded By Hate”: Hillary Clinton’s Enemies Can’t See Straight
Rand Paul, who is weirdly a potentially serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, got asked on Meet the Press this past Sunday about a comment his wife had made about Bill...
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“Rand Paul Remains Preoccupied With Bill Clinton”: Beware Of Those Who...
Nearly two weeks ago, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) decided to go after former President Bill Clinton, focusing on the Lewinsky affair from 19 years ago. The former president, Paul said, was guilty of...
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“The Death Of Dog-Whistle Politics”: Intramural Republican Party Competition...
In today’s media environment, every message you send to your base gets heard by everyone. That’s a problem for the GOP. If you go over to Politico right now, in the “Hot Topics” listed at the top of...
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“Cultivating The Right Wing”: Rand Paul Woos The Base With Hot Monica...
What on earth is Rand Paul thinking, bringing up Monica Lewinsky? On cable TV, they shake their talking heads: ancient history, irrelevant, etc. Quite true, it’s all those things. But in terms of...
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“Recycling For Fun And Profit”: The Imminent Return Of The ‘Clinton Scandals’
Hillary Clinton may well run for president in 2016. Or she may not. But while the nation awaits her decision, both jittery Republican politicians and titillated political journalists – often in concert...
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“An Illegitimate Power Structure”: To Defeat GOP’s Restrictive Voting Laws,...
Growing up in Jim Crow Arkansas, Bill Clinton saw how the state’s dominant political and racial elite maintained power by suppressing the rights of minority voters who threatened their authority – and...
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“Benghazi! The Musical”; Dancing, Shouting, Not Much Plot”: It’s Kind Of Like...
If Republicans in Congress really want to get Americans to pay attention to the Benghazi scandalette, they’re going to have to do some creative thinking. Since hearings and periodic expressions of...
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“Clinton Derangement Syndrome Will Soon Be Back”: It’s A Kind Of Political...
There was a time when I thought that the heights of derangement to which Barack Obama drove his political opponents were even greater than what we saw during the Clinton years. The dark warnings of...
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“His Policies Speak For Themselves”: Rand Paul Can Try To Be His Party’s Bill...
Rand Paul continues to fling any turd he can find at the Clintons for pretty obvious reasons. The first-term senator from Kentucky has to do something to show the GOP establishment he can be...
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“Gray Matter”: ‘Bush’s Brain’ Short-Circuits
Karl Rove, the most brilliant political strategist of his generation, the man George W. Bush called “the Architect,” the man Stephen Colbert immortalized as “Ham Rove,” the pundit to whom Fox News...
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“Please Make Up Your Mind”: The Wall Street Journal Can’t Decide Why Obama Is...
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal editorial board found an unusual way to criticize Barack Obama for his new limits on carbon emissions: the action, the paper declared, showed that he was too...
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“The Nail In Your Political Coffin”: An Open Letter To John Boehner And House...
Dear Mr. Speaker… On behalf of Democrats everywhere, I would like to ask you to impeach President Obama. Please. I implore you. Nothing would make us happier. You know you want to. You know that merely...
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“A Republican Chronic Affliction”: From Clinton To Obama; Why GOP Impeachment...
Making predictions is a perilous practice for any political journalist. Too often, the would-be seers turn out to be dead wrong – as can be attested to by George Will, Michael Barone, Larry Kudlow, and...
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“What Matters Most Is What We Do”: If Having a Foreign Policy Doctrine Is So...
Jeffrey Golberg has an interview with Hillary Clinton which is being billed as a rebuke of, or maybe a distancing from, her old boss, Barack Obama. While you’ll probably think that an overstatement...
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