February 3, 2016
Moon Shots and the Unacknowledged Hard Work of the Congress
While the President announced his “moon shot” to cure cancer from the Speaker’s Rostrum overlooking the United States House of Representatives, he might as well been speaking from an alternative universe. Don’t get me wrong. I think we need to...
February 2, 2016
7 lessons from 2016
(Originally published on The Hill.) I should have listened to my mother. Mom has been warning me about this election for a year now. People are fed up, she says. They are mad. And change is going to come. I...
January 29, 2016
Why Are Republicans So Angry, and 4 Other Questions for the Iowa Debate
(Originally posted in the WSJ) With Donald Trump planning not to take the stage in Iowa, perhaps the other Republican candidates will have a more substantive debate. As I’ve done with previous debates, I’m suggesting five questions the moderators could...
January 27, 2016
The Beginning of Trump’s Long, Steep Decline (He Said Hopefully)
Donald Trump’s decision to skip the Fox Debate and avoid tough questions from Megyn Kelly will prove to be his undoing. That’s my hope and my prediction. Trump is getting cocky and this is just a further indication of that...
January 26, 2016
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know In This Election Season
“He’s all over the place! Nine hundred feet up to 1,300 feet. What an asshole!” The scene from the iconic movie “Airplane” reminds me of the latest polls on both sides of the aisle. First Hillary is up 30. Then...
January 25, 2016
The Rise of the Misinformed Voter and Donald Trump
(Originally Published on The Hill) I was meeting with some D.C. press secretaries about a complicated legislative issue when it became clear to me that everything has changed since I left Capitol Hill in 2005. We were talking about strategies...