Posts Tagged ‘John Boehner’
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What Surprise Can We Expect This October?
Posted on September 5, 2014
Lyndon Johnson announced that he planned to halt the bombing of North Vietnam in October of 1968. Richard Nixon announced that “peace was at hand” in the Vietnam War in...
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The Over-Under for the House GOP This Fall
Posted on September 4, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, what’s the over-under for House Republicans? Politico suggested earlier this week that if the GOP won only six seats this...
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Kansas Continues to Fascinate
Posted on August 6, 2014
Published in the Christian Science Monitor Decoder Voices In 2004, Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”, a fascinating if tilted view of the political dynamics of a state...
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Primary Challenges to GOP Leaders Say a Lot About the State of the Party
Posted on May 19, 2014
Originally Published in the WSJ Leadership is hard, especially in the U.S. Congress and especially if you are a Republican. House Speaker John Boehner easily survived his primary last week....
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Then and Now: Government Shutdowns
Posted on October 1, 2013
Being in a government shutdown is kind of like being a frog in a pot of water, just put over the flames. At first, everything seems hunky dory, even comfortable. ...
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