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With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Ins….
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James ….
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war….
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television..
Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections..
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonia….
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq..
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New Y….
We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, det….
Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side..
The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it mak….
Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns th….
If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat..
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase..
Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to o….
The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U….
I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that funda….
Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors..
Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go..
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future..
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington….