Archive for July, 2011
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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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History
Posted on July 15, 2011
I can’t tell if this current Congress is making history, defying history, ignoring history, or will soon be history. I had dinner last night with a Freshman member of the...
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Reasonable, Unreasonable
Posted on July 14, 2011
It is altogether reasonable to have grave concerns about our national debt. It is unreasonable to have grave concerns about our debt, and then refuse to do anything about it....
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