July 29, 2014
Republican Rubik’s Cube
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Putting together a governing political coalition is like figuring out a Rubik’s Cube: To win, you have to get all the pieces to fit together. ...
July 24, 2014
The Surprise in Jack Kingston’s Loss in the Georgia Runoff
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank.) That Rep. Jack Kingston lost his primary race for the open Senate seat in Georgia Tuesday night wasn’t a complete shock. It was going to be a close contest either way and most experts...
July 23, 2014
Expanding the Size of the Senate?
There’s nothing sacred about having 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives. It was 103 years ago, in August of 1911, when Congress passed the Apportionment Act, which set the number of House Members at the current...
July 21, 2014
Obama’s Immigration Crisis
Originally published on The Hill Incompetence breeds contempt. It’s not easy to alienate black voters, Hispanic voters and conservative white voters all at the same time on the same issue, but that’s exactly what the Obama administration has done by...
July 17, 2014
What If the Hard Right Drives Big Business Into Arms of The Left?
(This is originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank.) Amid the fight for the soul of the Republican Party, some elements of the GOP coalition have become overtly hostile to Big Business....
July 17, 2014
Patriotism and Corporate Inversions
It annoys me when Tea Party groups that want to dismember the Federal Government and urge insurrection and nullification against the President call themselves patriots and imply that anybody who opposes their radical agenda are squishy communists....