March 5, 2012
Drink Responsibly
I went back to my Alma Mater this weekend to watch my Marquette Warriors beat the Georgetown Hoyas (okay, so the team goes by the Golden Eagles, but they will always be the Warriors to me). It was a fun...
March 6, 2012
Three Yards And A Cloud of Dust
The most important contest in today’s Super Tuesday primary calendar is Ohio. It is hard to see how Mitt Romney can beat Barack Obama if he can’t do well in Ohio (although Obama was able to lose the state to...
March 2, 2012
The New Power of Government
The Senate debate on the “conscience clause” missed the bigger point. Roy Blunt, the Missouri Senator, offered the “religious liberty” amendment that basically said that the federal government couldn’t make religious organizations offer insurance that violated their strongly held beliefs....
February 29, 2012
Regular Order Guy
When David Dreier co-chaired the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress in 1993, Bob Michel assigned me to keep an eye on the process for him. Even back then, Dreier was a regular order guy. He believed in the...
February 29, 2012
Super Pacs Are Over-Rated
It is conventional wisdom that the rise of the so-called Super Pac is good for the Republican Party. That is false. The Super Pac is very good for some campaign consultants who want to ply their trade without having to...
February 28, 2012
Kid Rock
Kid Rock once played at a party held in honor of my old boss, Denny Hastert, the former Speaker of the House. It was at the Republican Convention in New York, and country music star Trace Adkins also headlined the...