January 21, 2013
Learning From Obama
The President’s second inaugural brilliantly pushed forward his political agenda in ways that Republicans need to understand and learn from. Republicans will never be able to outbid the President when it comes to coalition politics. But they need to appreciate...
January 21, 2013
Obama The Great?
Historians will rate President Barack Obama as one our nation’s greatest Presidents. The question is: Was he any good? That the history profession is dominated by a liberal elite comes as no surprise. Robert Dallek, Arthur Schleschinger, Doris Kearns Goodwin,...
January 19, 2013
More on the Majority of the Majority
I have been thinking a bit more about Denny’s Hastert’s famous dictum on the majority of the majority. It is still a very good guideline for how to keep the job of Speaker of the House. But it requires some...
January 18, 2013
Catfish Nation
We live in a catfish nation. “Catfish” is a television show on MTV about people who lie about themselves. According to the New York Times, “a so-called catfish is the engineer of the false online identity,” a reference to the...
January 16, 2013
Rules Are Made to Be Broken
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case these days with the so-called Hastert Rule. I wrote the...
January 16, 2013
The Business of Business
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s, a decade of brisk economic growth. It was also in...