January 15, 2013
Slow Down on Guns
The Obama Administration is making a huge mistake if it wants to pass significant gun legislation in this Congress. I understand the impulse. They want to strike while the iron is hot. They believe that they have to pass something...
January 13, 2013
Time to Purge
As Republicans gather in Williamsburg for their annual policy planning retreat, they must confront a simple truth. They don’t have the votes to run anything. If the vote for Speaker on Opening Day confirmed anything, it confirmed that simple fact. ...
January 11, 2013
What Goes Around, Comes Around
I think it was mistake for the neo-cons to attack Chuck Hagel as an anti-Semite. But that is exactly what they did weeks before President Obama announced that he wanted the former Nebraska Senator to take the helm at the...
January 10, 2013
Guns, Venus, Mars
The gun debate is like one big game of miscommunication. Gun-owners are from Mars. Gun-haters are from Venus. For many gun-owners, hunting is not the main thing. Defending yourself is the main thing. Democrats like to make a big deal...
January 9, 2013
God, Football and Notre Dame
I told my office, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that I was going to the BCS championship game with John Boehner. And I was. He was going to the game and I was going to the game. We didn’t sit together, and I...
January 8, 2013
Return to Regular Order
Will the 113th Congress mark the return of regular order? Some conservatives and the Wall Street Journal have decried a broken Congressional process where most deals are concluded behind closed door. Speaker of the House John Boehner promised his colleagues...