Archive for the ‘POTUS’ Category
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Restore The Congress to Counter the President
Posted on March 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In 1989, the first year I arrived in Washington as a staffer to House Minority Leader Bob Michel, the Heritage Foundation released a tome...
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Not Ready for the Secretive Hillary
Posted on March 5, 2015
We live in a transparent and authentic age, although very few of our politicians are perceived as being either transparent or authentic. I think that’s one of the reasons why...
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Our Own History To Live
Posted on March 3, 2015
It was a Speaker who pushed America into the War of 1812. Henry Clay, a hero to Mitch McConnell, ascended briskly to the gavel as a 34 year-old newly elected...
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AUMF
Posted on February 12, 2015
Congress used to declare war. Now it authorizes the use of military force. We used to go to war against countries. Now, we use military force against imaginary caliphates....
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Democracy Unbalanced
Posted on February 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....
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