February 23, 2010
The American Action Forum
About eight months ago, a few friends of mine and I met with Doug Holtz-Eakin, the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, to plot out a strategy to create a center-right think tank. We all felt that there was...
February 22, 2010
The View From the Granular Level
It’s always good to get home to Chicago, which I did this weekend for my brother’s 40 birthday. He seemed surprised to see me, a good thing since it was a surprise party. I got a chance to talk to...
February 19, 2010
The Cat is Out of the Bag
In the New York Times today, a Democratic aide let the cat of out of the bag. He admitted that the Democrats are making plans to go with the reconciliation option in the Senate to pass their very unpopular health...
February 19, 2010
Offense or Defense
The first time I went to CPAC was in the mid-nineties. I worked for Tom DeLay at the time, and DeLay was completely in his element. CPAC is a trade show for conservative activists. It is a place where Ann...
February 18, 2010
Creating Jobs and Olympic Gold
While I am not exactly addicted to the Winter Olympics, I have been catching snippets of NBC’s coverage at least a little bit every day. I have been most fascinated by the diversity of the Olympics. Not the racial diversity,...
February 17, 2010
One Year
Spinning the stimulus is one of those Washington parlor games that infuriates people outside the beltway. The President said it is the best thing since sliced bread. The Republicans say it was the worst thing since the invention of arsenic. ...