Archive for March, 2017
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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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Get to the Meat of the Trump Agenda
Posted on March 27, 2017
Replacing Obamacare is the broccoli of the Trump legislative agenda. It’s not the red meat that will make America great again. George H.W. Bush once said about the leafy vegetable,...
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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet; That is the Question
Posted on March 22, 2017
Live by Twitter; Die by Twitter. I couldn’t help myself, with that opening line. Twitter is the most important media platform for politics going today. It is also a dog...
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Whither American Exceptionalism?
Posted on March 21, 2017
(Also published on Political Storm) It’s a down moment for American exceptionalism. That seems to be the opinion of the hard right. America can’t be the world’s policeman anymore. We...
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