August 19, 2013
Back From Vacation
I am on Chapter 3 of my new book, The Feehery Theories. I have been stuck on Chapter 3 for a month now. Writing a book is hard, especially when you have a full-time job and a new baby. And...
August 19, 2013
Republicans Getting Deficit Reduction, But President Getting His Way
Congress and the President are on holiday, resting up for the next round of budget wars that will resume after Labor Day. The issues they will face when they return are familiar: the federal government is about to lose authority...
August 8, 2013
Are You Tough Enough To Shut the Government Down?
Machismo plays a huge role in conservative politics and it tends to skew the political positioning within the Republican Conference in both the House and Senate. I observed this first hand when I worked in the House Majority Whip Office...
August 7, 2013
Reid’s Secret Plan To Raise Taxes on the Middle Class
The message to the Senate Finance Chairman was pretty clear: No tax reform unless you raise taxes on middle class Americans. That is the only conclusion you could reach from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s demand that Max Baucus back...
August 6, 2013
Disrupt
My friend Karen Finney asked me to do her new television show, Disrupt, over the weekend, but we had weekend plans that would have been disrupted, and I couldn’t make it. I want to do the show, though, and will...
August 5, 2013
August Is Here!
What issue will dominate August of 2013? 1. War? Will it be war? In 1914, as Barbara Tuchman wrote in the Guns of August, war dominated the discussion, more specifically, the First World War. The Great War, as it was...