Posts Tagged ‘Republicans’
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The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
Posted on July 26, 2011
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...
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CLASS Act
Posted on July 22, 2011
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...
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Fixers and Breakers
Posted on July 19, 2011
There are two kinds of politicians. Fixers come into office to fix things. They seek to fix problems for their constituents, fix the legislative process and fix government. Breakers come...
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The Lessons of 1990
Posted on July 19, 2011
I learned to drink coffee in 1990. I worked for House Minority Leader Bob Michel as a junior-level staffer, and I spent many a late night and quite a few...
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Where’s Nancy?
Posted on July 18, 2011
The media loves to spend time speculating about how John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going to round up the votes to pass President Obama’s debt limit legislation. But they...
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