Obama Tainted by Loan Guarantees to Solar Firms By Michael Barone
One factor favoring President Obama's re-election, according to a recent article by political scientist Alan Lichtman, is the absence of scandal in his administration.
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September 15, 2011
September 15, 2011
Global Warming Is Here, All Right By Froma Harrop
Bark beetles and egrets don't care whether Governor This or Senator That believes in global warming. They feel it in their whatevers. Responding to warmer temperatures, plant and wildlife are moving north or uphill to cooler elevations, according to a new study published in Science magazine. For example, higher temperatures in the Rocky Mountains have set off a population explosion of bark beetles now devouring its beautiful pine forests.
September 14, 2011
The King Dollar Frontrunners By Lawrence Kudlow
Watching the two GOP frontrunners in last night’s debate -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- a couple of policy points jumped out at me.
September 14, 2011
Is It Still Good to be the King? By Tony Blankley
Since the end of World War II, in both the United States and Western Europe, the best way to win a national election has been to be the incumbent political party. But that 3-generation-old predisposition of publics in Western democracies may be coming to an end.
September 13, 2011
Disapproval, of Course, Is a Relative Thing By Froma Harrop
If the 2012 election were held today, Republicans could very well have their heads handed to them. I do not think this alone. Their debt-ceiling high jinks were no doubt immensely amusing to the tea party fringe, but to those of us not getting the joke, they were an appalling attack on a fragile economy.
September 12, 2011
Obama Buys the Drinks That Other Guys Pay For By Michael Barone
What is there to say about Barack Obama's speech to Congress Thursday night and the so-called American Jobs Act he said Congress must pass? Several thoughts occur, all starting with P.
September 10, 2011
Tiny, Targeted, and Temporary That won’t do it, Mr. President By Lawrence Kudlow
Who would have really expected a 300-point stock market plunge on the day after President Obama’s so-called jobs speech?
September 9, 2011
For the Campaigns, It’s Already About Electoral College Math By Larry J. Sabato
Straw polls, real polls, debates, caucuses and primaries — these comprise the public side of presidential campaigns 14 months before Election Day. But behind the scenes, strategists for President Obama and his major Republican opponents are already focused like a laser on the Electoral College.
September 9, 2011
No Exit From the Realities of Sept. 11 By Froma Harrop
I remember Sept. 10, too. On that crisp night 10 years ago, friends and I went to hear Les Paul at a basement club in Times Square. The place was packed, and as was my habit in such settings, I quickly noted the fire exits.
September 8, 2011
One-on-One with Mitt Romney By Lawrence Kudlow
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined me in Las Vegas yesterday to discuss his new jobs and economic plan. He also shared some thoughts on his new Republican rival, Texas Governor Rick Perry.
September 8, 2011
GOP Needs a Front-runner Stronger Than Candidate X By Michael Barone
The race for the Republican presidential nomination finally seems to be gelling. On Wednesday night, candidates debated at the Reagan Library in California -- the first of five scheduled debates over the next five weeks.
September 7, 2011
Politics Turns Dangerously Rougher By Tony Blankley
In the last few weeks, leading Democrats in Congress have called Tea Party constituents terrorists, said they should go to hell and accused them of wanting to lynch black people.
September 6, 2011
Beware Easy 'Fixes' for Entitlement Programs By Froma Harrop
Please, everyone, stop monkeying around with Social Security and Medicare. We mean you, Republicans, and you, Democrats. No one's saying that Social Security can't be slightly recalibrated to keep the program on a sound footing or that significant savings can't be found in Medicare waste. We're saying that if Americans are not vigilant, these programs can be undermined by seemingly small "fixes."
September 5, 2011
Obama Speech Fiasco Shows 'Audacity of Weakness' By Michael Barone
I can't remember a more stunning rebuke of a president by a congressional leader than House Speaker John Boehner's refusal to agree to President Barack Obama's demand -- er, request -- that he summon a joint session of Congress to hear the president's latest speech on the economy at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 7.
September 3, 2011
A Reagan Moment - Stop Our Economic Decline By Lawrence Kudlow
No sooner had President Obama shocked the political world with a gloomy economic forecast -- projecting 9.1 percent unemployment for this year and a reelection-killing 9 percent for 2012 -- than the dismal August jobs report arrived showing no gain in nonfarm payrolls. That’s right, no gain at all. Private jobs increased a scant 17,000, while hours worked and wages actually declined. Obama’s economic policies have failed.
September 2, 2011
How To Honor the True Spirit of 9/11: First, Ignore Limbaugh By Joe Conason
If volunteerism is suddenly unpatriotic and even "socialist," that will come as a nasty surprise to many of the Republicans and conservatives who always have supported such efforts, notably including both presidents named Bush.
September 2, 2011
One Year From Convention, What Does Obama Say? By Thomas F. Schaller
With Barack Obama's 2012 renomination speech in Charlotte now about a year away, here's a very simple political question with a potentially complex answer: In his 2012 bid to win re-election, what messages and themes will the president employ?
September 1, 2011
The Progressives' Freedom Agenda By Froma Harrop
The third week in July, Republican Gov. Rick Perry said that the U.S. Constitution -- whose 10th Amendment limits federal power -- gives states the right to decide on such matters as abortion and gay marriage. The fourth week in July, the Texan recanted. He now supports a federal ban on abortion and gay marriage. Social conservatives told him they didn't cotton to giving states the right to defy their views on things they care about.
September 1, 2011
Is The Senate The Republicans' To Lose? By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
The recent decision by ex-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) not to seek the seat of his retiring colleague, Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl, was a big moment for Republicans because it gave them yet another clean shot at a Democratic-held Senate seat. Feingold, still popular despite his reelection loss last year, would have been a favored quasi-incumbent had he run. Instead, his decision is just another piece of miserable news for Democrats in this cycle's race for the Senate.
August 31, 2011
Obama's Last Economic Policy Chance By Tony Blankley
President Obama's post-Labor Day "jobs" speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect -- both economic and political -- before the November 2012 elections.
