October 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton: The Politician
It comes as no surprise that Hillary Clinton came out against the latest trade agreement. She’s a politician. The fact that she said favorable things about it on 45 different occasions is no surprise either. She’s a politician. And, more dangerously,...
October 7, 2015
Boehner as Nathan Brittles
John Boehner reminds me of Captain Nathan Brittles. Brittles was the United States Army Captain, played memorably by John Wayne, in the Oscar-winning “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.” For those who have never watched the movie, Brittles is set to...
October 6, 2015
The Myth of Regular Order
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In the aftermath of the Jim Wright resignation and the House bank scandal in the early 1990s, then-Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) and then-House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.) struggled to fix a broken Congress....
October 5, 2015
Selling TPP
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) The Obama administration announced Monday that it concluded a trade agreement with 11 other Pacific Rim countries. The pact, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, has been controversial in not only...
October 2, 2015
Let’s Not Bash Kevin McCarthy
Everybody is jumping on the “bash Kevin McCarthy” bandwagon. I think everybody should just jump back off of it. What McCarthy said is not in any way offensive. He stated the facts, just the facts. Let’s deconstruct what he said....
October 1, 2015
GOP Tumult Is Nothing New
The Republican Party was founded upon the ashes of the Whig Party, which collapsed over the issue of slavery. And ever since that time, the Grand Old Party has had a bit of a wild ride. Two House buildings are...