August 12, 2009
Jimmy Carter Redux?
Jimmy Carter Redux Interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125003045380123953.html) about the management style of President Barack Obama. It seems that he is a micromanager. “In a White House ritual new with this administration, the president...
August 11, 2009
Missed Opportunity on Health Care Reform
Missed Opportunity The current heated debate that has embroiled the country (whether the conservatives who organize to protest Obamacare are somehow illegitimate while the liberals who organize to support Obamacare are somehow perfectly above board) misses the real...
August 11, 2009
Replay: Obama Should Think Small on Health Care
I wrote this for CNN.com last April and thought it was appropriate to replay it today. I am on vacation this week, so my new posts will only be periodic until Monday President Obama has taken the advice...
August 6, 2009
The Perils of Breaking Promises
This originally appeared on CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Like an early clue in a mystery novel, you could see that the line used by George H.W. Bush in his convention speech (“Read my lips. No new taxes.”) was going to cause...
August 5, 2009
Are You Part of the Mob?
Where Republicans see concerned citizens worried about the fiscal future of America, the Democrats see only a mob of angry right-wing extremists, doing their best to undermine the Saint Barack Obama. Incredibly, that is the...
August 5, 2009
Pick Your Battles
Pick Your Battles Conservatives have a good target in taking on President Obama’s health care plan. It has all the elements of a winning issue for the GOP. It is too costly, too big, too intrusive and too...