Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
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Why Republicans Need to Back the Next Speaker
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) The Hastert Rule was never a rule. It was a guideline to future speakers, a warning really about how to manage a fractious group...
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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The Armageddon Caucus
Posted on October 28, 2015
It takes a special amount of chutzpa to never show up to the Senate for any votes and then complain that when the Leadership puts together a budget deal that...
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Obama, Jefferson, Jackson and The Debt
Posted on October 27, 2015
(Originally published on The Hill) It was slightly less than eight years ago when Barack Obama made a name of himself at the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa. Back then,...
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White Smoke and Paul Ryan
Posted on October 21, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) I had just returned from my son’s baseball practice when a friend texted me with a link to the Wikipedia page about Papal White...
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