Nothing Accomplished, But A Surprisingly Good Start

December 1, 2010

My low expectations for the president’s deficit-cutting commission will probably be realized this week, when the powerless panel, in all likelihood, fails to agree on a plan to fix the nation’s finances. Yet, to my surprise, the panel has accomplished something very important: It pointed the way toward the compromises we will have to make if we are serious about maintaining American leadership in the 21st century. Our only other …

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Pelosi Blocks Obama’s Re-Election Path

November 9, 2010

President Obama is pondering how to deal with his strengthened Republican adversaries when he returns from this week’s Asian summits. He might want to spend part of his long return flight thinking about how to handle his friends. Soon-to-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the president’s biggest problem. Because Obama was not on the ballot last week, Pelosi became the poster child for everything voters wanted to protest: high unemployment, …

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A Good First Step On Earmarks

March 16, 2010

It isn’t exactly unilateral disarmament, but House members from both parties have voluntarily put down one of their big guns in the annual battle over $1 trillion in federal discretionary spending. They deserve some credit for it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, with the support of their party’s caucus, decreed last week that there will be no more budgetary “earmarks” for private for-profit corporations, though lawmakers will …

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So Long, Charlie

March 10, 2010

Last week, the ethically challenged Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a temporary leave of absence from his position as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee until the ethics committee finishes its investigation of him. Given the number of Rangel’s alleged missteps, that could be awhile. The former chairman, who led the committee responsible for writing all of the nation’s tax laws, faces accusations regarding …

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Be Careful What You Wish For

November 10, 2009

The health care bill that the House of Representatives approved Saturday night did two things its sponsors never intended: It virtually doomed health reform legislation for this year, and it showed how to eliminate legal abortion in the United States. We may soon see abortion opponents leading the charge for a single-payer, government-run health care system, which could refuse to provide or pay for abortions. There would be no need …

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