Tangherlini Tapped to Stay On at GSA
Video: Stephen Colbert on the Census Bureau
Lawmaker: Don't Furlough Weather Service Now
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Enough Already
July 12, 2011 Is anyone else getting as nervous as I am about this debt-ceiling debate? Don't get me wrong; my view has long been that we would endure some stomach-churning days on the way to a deal. Ultimately, though, I believed that the adults in both parties would prevail and lift the ...
Worries on All Sides
July 5, 2011 A recent Democracy Corps national survey, conducted by the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, has numbers that should worry both Democrats and Republicans. The survey, conducted June 18-21 among 1,000 likely 2012 voters (with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent) showed that those respondents ...
Ready to Rumble
June 28, 2011 Now that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination, the biggest question remaining is whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry will jump into the race. If former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin opted in, watching her and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota tangle would be ...
Too Good to Last
June 14, 2011 Hardly a day goes by that a prominent Democratic member of Congress doesn't criticize Republicans on Medicare. From Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on down, Democrats are attacking House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans for trying to "end Medicare as ...
The Home Front
June 7, 2011 Last week's confirmation that the gross domestic product grew only 1.8 percent in the first quarter came when economists were already busily revising their growth forecasts downward for the rest of this year. A double-dip recession remains unlikely, but this is the weakest recovery since the Great Depression and the ...
Room for One More
May 31, 2011 A lot of Republicans aren't surprised by the inauspicious start of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. GOP insiders who know and admire Gingrich and respect his intellect and creativity have long suspected that his candidacy would not end well. Some Republican operatives say they advised Gingrich not to run but that ...
A Brief Bounce
May 24, 2011 More than two weeks have passed since the successful SEAL team raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and, as expected, about half of President Obama's ratings bounce has disappeared. Gallup's tracking polls conducted through Tuesday night put his job-approval rating at 48 percent, higher than the 43-to-44 ...
Fleeting Favor
May 17, 2011 It's corny, but not entirely inaccurate, to say, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" for President Obama this week. In Tuesday's Gallup tracking poll, Obama enjoyed a 52 percent job-approval rating, his highest since May 2010, and his disapproval was down to 40 percent, ...
The Waiting Game
May 10, 2011 In 1935, Austrian quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger devised a thought experiment involving a cat in a box that could either be dead or alive, to counter other quantum thinkers who believed that the cat could be in a simultaneous "superposition" of both states. You've got to hand it to bloggers ...
Taking On Obama
May 3, 2011 My assumption has long been that Republicans won't be dumb enough to nominate a presidential candidate next year who is unqualified or politically toxic and that they won't be lucky enough to find one who is a charismatic game-changer. I've assumed that the race will largely hinge on whether voters ...
