Posts Tagged ‘Donald Trump’
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days: there is time to right ship
Posted on April 4, 2017
(Also published in The Hill) “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” Bluto didn’t have his history right in his iconic speech in the famous movie “Animal House”...
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A New Health Care Strategy For the GOP
Posted on March 29, 2017
I thought Republicans didn’t like big omnibus bills. It seems to me that the effort to repeal and then replace Obamacare was too big, too complicated, too hasty, and ultimately...
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Freedom Caucus follies
Posted on March 28, 2017
Published in The Hill. Ah, the Freedom Caucus. As former President Barack Obama might have said, this was a teachable moment for President Trump. I am tempted to ask the...
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Replacing Obamacare
Posted on March 8, 2017
“We’re very, very united on repeal, not so much on replace, and so I think the real problem is adding replacement to the repeal bill,” Rand Paul told CNN. “I think...
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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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