Archive for May, 2015
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Living In a Game of Thrones World
Posted on May 19, 2015
A wealthy family, blocks from Joe Biden’s house, is held (presumably at gunpoint), murdered and then burned to cover up the evidence. Another family is murdered by their next-door neighbor,...
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Hillary is Vulnerable on Iraq
Posted on May 18, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Iraq will play a central role in the 2016 election. President Obama had hoped that, by pulling out our troops just in time for...
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Jeb Has To Prove That He is His Own Man
Posted on May 15, 2015
It was a slam dunk. Jeb Bush could have quoted his brother. Or his most likely opponent in a general election, should he win the primary. Instead, he fumbled the...
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Amtrak: Status Quo is Not Acceptable
Posted on May 14, 2015
Mike Simpson was right, of course. The Idaho Republican told the Appropriations Committee Democrats that their efforts to politicize the Amtrak train crash were inappropriate and out of order. We...
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Congress Grapples With Globalization
Posted on May 13, 2015
Democrats rejected President Obama’s top domestic initiative yesterday on a procedural vote, and it’s not quite clear when it will be coming back to the Senate floor. Maybe it will. Maybe...
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