Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson has some advice for Mitt Romney. If you want to improve your standing with women (or Latinos or blacks) pretend to give a damn about them. Find some issue, like failing schools or black...
Read MoreRight now, tonight, I can’t do Dick Lugar justice. I’m not in the mood to research his voting history over the last 36 years for examples of both sensible effective legislating and ckickenshit conservative...
Read MoreWhat happens in a state controlled and dominated by Republicans? In particular how do they deal with budget deficits? Do they raise taxes? Of course not. What they do is literally starve public schools of funding. This year the...
Read MoreThe price we pay for not consistently keeping our focus on how Congress actually works is that we get into dumb arguments about things like the proper definition and relative merits of “centrism.” I don’t...
Read MoreCardinal Timothy Dolan (R-Vatican) was on Face the Nation yesterday and spoke on many subjects, including this: He … pledged to fight the administration’s contraceptive mandate for health care coverage, even though...
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