Michael Gerson: Conservative reality check
Sen. Ted Cruz’s straw poll victory at the Values Voter Summit, just as his strategy to block Obamacare was collapsing in recrimination and desperation on Capitol Hill, indicates that some voters don’t...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Now is a time for growth
It’s fine to talk -- eventually -- about chronic deficits and mounting debt. But now that our government is up and running again, the nation’s first priority should be economic growth. Sorry if this...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Obamacare in need of a doctor
For liberals, it is a cruel twist of history that Harry Truman’s dream of universal health coverage, carried forward by generations of committed Democrats, should fall to the Obama administration for...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: Don’t give up on the uninsured
Obamacare is working. True, that sentence comes with a large asterisk. It is working in states that have followed the essential design of the Affordable Care Act, particularly in Kentucky, Connecticut,...
View ArticleDana Milbank: The GOP needs a new song
Republicans’ efforts to amputate Obamacare, and the resulting shutdown of the federal government, brought the party to all-time lows in the polls. So House Republican leaders surrendered, went home,...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Hail to the Washingtons
I’m a bit late to the topic, but the Washington, D.C., professional football team really ought to change its name. As encouragement for the franchise’s stubborn owner, we should just stop saying the...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Syria’s brutality continues at will
While chemical weapons disarmament proceeds in Syria, so do mass attacks on civilians. In the eastern suburbs of Damascus, where the regime used sarin, it now conducts a siege, blocking the entrance of...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Virginia is GOP wake-up call
It isn’t over yet, but a bookie today would predict a Terry McAuliffe victory in the Virginia governor’s election next week. Washington Post polling shows the Democratic businessman and fundraiser with...
View ArticleMichelle Teheux: Economists, meet the poor
I havent yet read Alan Greenspans new book, The Map and the Territory, but the reviews seems to suggest nobody saw the economic catastrophe of 2008 coming. My own observations tell me that most...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: The out-of-control NSA
Let’s get this straight: The National Security Agency snooped on the cellphone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel? Perhaps for as long as a decade? And President Obama didn’t know a thing...
View ArticleMichael Gerson: Obamacare’s rocky beginnings
In one of the few political jokes attributed to a physicist, Ernest Rutherford once described a public official as being “like a Euclidean point: he has position without magnitude.” With a change of...
View ArticleGeorge Will: The case of an injured thumb
This term the Supreme Court will rule on important subjects from racial preferences to restrictions on political speech, but its most momentous case, to be argued Tuesday, concerns the prosecution of a...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Advice columnist to GOP
Ms. Know-It-All, the anonymous political advice columnist whose identity remains a popular Georgetown cocktail party guessing game, is also known to live up to her title now and then. Herewith a...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Sins of omission
Among the many rules I grew up with, two stand out. The first was never call someone a liar, which was considered the worst possible character indictment one could issue. The accuser had best be...
View ArticleDana Milbank: Governing by anecdote
It did not sound good for Sen. Pat Toomey. “I’m a two-time breast cancer survivor and I’m facing the loss of insurance,” the Pennsylvania Republican declared Wednesday at a Senate Finance Committee...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: Rhetoric vs. reality
“Obama to campaign to ensure health law’s success” - The New York Times, Nov. 4 The Obamacare website doesn’t work. Hundreds of thousands of insured Americans are seeing their plans summarily...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: What’s the matter with motherhood?
If you’re a conservative strongly opposed to abortion, shouldn’t you want to give all the help you can to women who want to bring their children into the world? In particular, wouldn’t you hope they’d...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Our good old todays
The economy is growing much faster than expected. Inflation is basically nonexistent. The federal budget deficit has been slashed dramatically. The stock market is reaching all-time highs. One of our...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Obamacare’s gift to the GOP
In spite of everything -- the GOP’s internal scrimmages, the government shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derail Obamacare -- Republicans keep getting second chances. The question is, can...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: Obama needs his friends back
President Obama is furiously fending off those “winter of discontent” stories, and it’s not even winter yet. The news about the health care law that is supposed to be his greatest achievement is almost...
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