Author Archive
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Trump’s Lobbyists: An Ambulatory Bridge Across a Constitutional Gulf
Posted on March 1, 2017
When I worked on Capitol Hill, first for House Republican Leader Bob Michel, then for House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, and then for House Speaker Denny Hastert, I always had...
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Trump’s Presidential Address
Posted on February 28, 2017
It was a helluva speech. It started well with a nod to black history month and a condemnation of the racist idiots among us who do dumb, dangerous and criminal...
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“Tell Trump to Shut Up”
Posted on February 28, 2017
That was the most common line I heard as I went home to Illinois this weekend for the funeral of my former boss and mentor, Bob Michel. Michel, an Illinois...
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Trump’s Address to Congress
Posted on February 27, 2017
(Also published on Political Storm) Technically, when Donald Trump addresses a Joint Session of Congress later this week, it won’t be a State of the Union. Presidents don’t give those...
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Michel and Milo
Posted on February 23, 2017
The same week that former House Republican Leader Bob Michel died, Milo Yiannopoulos got himself disinvited from the CPAC, the pre-eminent gathering of conservative thought leaders in the country. I...
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