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The Otto Caucus
Posted on December 21, 2015
Wanda: Was it shrewd? Was it good tactics or was it stupid? Otto: Don’t call me stupid. Wanda: Of course not! To call you stupid would be an insult to...
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The Lessons of Roth-Kemp
Posted on December 16, 2015
When Bruce Thompson and Jim Brady started selling a tax reform plan in the late 1970’s, they didn’t get into specifics or try to educate people on the intricacies of...
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Let ‘Em Crash is Not a Governing Philosophy
Posted on November 12, 2015
“Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ’em crash.” That’s the money quote from the movie Airplane! from conservative pundit Jack Kirkpatrick,...
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5 Questions for Tonight’s Debate
Posted on November 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Election campaigns are supposed to show voters who a candidate is and how he or she would lead. To that...
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Why Republicans Need to Back the Next Speaker
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) The Hastert Rule was never a rule. It was a guideline to future speakers, a warning really about how to manage a fractious group...
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