Month: July 2011

As I predicted, Speaker Boehner has to go crawling to Steny Hoyer for votes. Meanwhile, Boehner is sneaking in and out of the White House begging for some way out of the trap he set for himself. As one of the commenters at The...

I don’t think the key to Ben Nelson’s reelection is to assure that he is unloved by people of every political persuasion. Nebraska is a socially-conservative state. I get that. But that makes it all the more...

May I nominate Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institute as the first to go on the pyre when the plebes finally revolt and pick up their pitchforks? The last thing we want to do is tax corporate executives and make them pay more...

Desperate to make a deal, Speaker Boehner met secretly with the president on Sunday. Then the president called for a summit at the White House on Thursday. The Republicans don’t want to get lectured and they hope the...

Let me say up front here that I’m not sold on this reporting by Eve Conant of The Daily Beast. Maybe David Duke is going to run for the Republican nomination but, by her own reporting in this article, it seems like the...