Archive for the ‘GOP’ Category
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The Art of the Deal
Posted on May 16, 2016
Washington is not good at cutting deals. That is especially true for the last 6 years with President Obama and the Republican-led Congress. Think Fiscal Cliff. Government shut-down. The failure...
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A party divided
Posted on May 9, 2016
(Also published in The Hill) In 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt bolted the Republican Party in opposition to incumbent William Howard Taft and ran as a third-party candidate, it put Nicholas...
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The Change Candidate
Posted on May 4, 2016
It’s change vs. the status quo. And change is winning. It won last night in the Republican primary in Indiana. Ted Cruz offered the same conservative strategies, tactics, vision, principles...
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Conservative Thinkers, Stop Being Stupid About Trump
Posted on May 3, 2016
(This originally appeared in The Hill) The conservative intelligentsia (not necessarily a contradiction in terms) is being stupid about Donald Trump. And in the process, they are revealing their...
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Both the Republic and the Republicans Will Survive Trump
Posted on April 26, 2016
If you ask somebody who might vote regularly but otherwise has a day-job, the prospect of a Trump Presidency is usually greeted with a shrug of the shoulders: Couldn’t get...
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