July 27, 2011
Debt Impasse Continues In Washington: NPR
Both Republicans and Democrats have their own plan to end the debt standoff. But neither party thinks a grand deal is in their interest. Hear more >> www.npr.org...
July 27, 2011
Boehner Is In Fine Shape
John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times. When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as Speaker of the House. Unlike the dictatorial Wright, Foley ran...
July 26, 2011
The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
President Obama has not been shy lately in trying to use the power of the bully pulpit to get his way on Capitol Hill. It is not clear that his bully pulpit approach is working. I listened to the President’s...
July 25, 2011
The Power of One
It is awfully hard to comprehend what happened in Norway over the weekend. How could one man do so much damage in the name of Christianity? How could that one man be so completely delusional to think that by killing...
July 22, 2011
CLASS Act
In these days of intense partisanship and over-the-top rhetoric, it is somehow appropriate that the one thing that Congress would agree to repeal is the CLASS Act. It goes without saying that our society has slipped more than a few...