January 30, 2013
Selling Immigration Reform
“We are getting killed with the Hispanic vote.” If I were a Republican Senator and I had just signed on to a comprehensive immigration reform proposal that is exactly how I wouldn’t sell the package to my constituents. Immigration reform...
January 29, 2013
Tea Party Must be Crushed
It is time to get rid of the Tea Party. They are an embarrassment. Worse, they are collaborating with Democrats to bring down Republicans and make it easier for Democrats to win general elections. There was a story in yesterday’s...
January 28, 2013
Hard Work and Taxes
I was watching the Australian Open Finals yesterday morning. Andy Murray from Great Britain was playing Novak Djokovic of Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo? I thought the number one ranked player in the world was from Belgrade, Serbia. Turns out, Mr....
January 25, 2013
Half-Empty, Half-Full
I am a “glass half-full” kind of guy. I try to find the positives in life and not dwell too much on the negatives. When you work in the leadership of the Congress for 15 years, you get used to...
January 24, 2013
Annihilation?
John Boehner might be right. The President may very well want to annihilate the Republican Party. But if that is true it is going to take far longer than Mr. Obama thinks. Obama’s speech on Monday and his efforts to...
January 23, 2013
Focus on the Underclass, Not the Upper Class
Reflecting his political upbringing, Barack Obama spends an inordinate amount of his time worrying about how the rich are getting richer. He practices envy politics. The poor are poor not because of their own pathologies, but because the rich are...