Posts Tagged ‘John Boehner’
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It’s Really Not That Complicated
Posted on January 7, 2015
It’s really not that complicated. I don’t mean to sound like Peter Morini, but when it comes to the vote for Speaker of the House, it really isn’t that complicated....
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Support the Speaker
Posted on January 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) From 1910 to 1943, it was fairly common for some members of the Republican Party to vote for somebody for Speaker of the House other...
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The Spending Battle’s Winners and Losers
Posted on December 15, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, now that we have dispensed with the “cromnibus,” who won and who lost in the latest budget battle? Here are my picks:...
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The Usual Suspects
Posted on December 9, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) It’s the easiest story to write for the mostly younger journalists on Capitol Hill: the conservative uprising against the Republican leadership. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz...
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How the GOP Gains From Focusing on Spending Now and Immigration Later
Posted on December 5, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Amid tension over funding the government past next week’s deadline, Congress has invented a term that brings back memories of the...
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