Archive for the ‘Promises’ Category
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Reunion
Posted on August 1, 2011
As we were driving back from the airport, my 5-year old son Jack asked me, “Daddy, what’s the debt limit?” We had just flown in from Chicago. I had dropped...
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The Limits of Libertarianism
Posted on July 29, 2011
I like to call myself a Libertarian, but I am really not. I don’t really want government to disappear. While I read The Fountainhead in college, and I admit I...
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Boehner Is In Fine Shape
Posted on July 27, 2011
John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times. When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as...
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The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
Posted on July 26, 2011
President Obama has not been shy lately in trying to use the power of the bully pulpit to get his way on Capitol Hill. It is not clear that his...
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CLASS Act
Posted on July 22, 2011
In these days of intense partisanship and over-the-top rhetoric, it is somehow appropriate that the one thing that Congress would agree to repeal is the CLASS Act. It goes without...
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