TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
Making Government 'Simpler'
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Harsh Realities for Both Parties
April 26, 2011 Monday's announcement by Standard & Poor's that it was lowering its credit outlook for the U.S. government's sovereign debt from stable to negative was a warning that no one should have needed. The seriousness of the federal debt problem and the dysfunction of our political process should be obvious to ...
Trump’s a Joke
April 19, 2011 Some bright, talented, and highly qualified Republicans are thinking about running for president. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts -- all current or former governors -- are eminently capable. Regardless of whether you like or ...
Death Wish?
April 12, 2011 One of the biggest and most frequent mistakes in politics is for a party to misread its mandate. When it happens, independent and swing voters get angry and punish a candidate or a party on Election Day. Because American politics is a zero-sum game, punishing one party means rewarding the ...
An Intruding World
April 5, 2011 BRUSSELS-One can certainly understand why Europeans are further along in the conversation about governments' mounting debt loads than Americans are. Sovereign-debt crises in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal (with several other countries not far behind) have dominated the news in Europe for more than a year. In the United States, we ...
Obama’s Advantage
March 29, 2011 Tim Pawlenty's announcement that he is setting up a 2012 presidential campaign exploratory committee makes the former Minnesota governor the first major GOP contender to take the big step, although others will undoubtedly follow over the next several months. Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich appear virtually certain to ...
The Die Isn’t Cast
March 22, 2011 It's hard to imagine a situation much worse than the one that Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray and Executive Director Guy Cecil will face in the 2012 elections. The numbers are pretty ominous-23 Democratic seats at risk against only 10 for Republicans. The Democratic seats in this class ...
Trend or Fluke?
March 15, 2011 I only get to celebrate special days like my birthday, wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving, and Christmas once a year, but I can rejoice every month or so when an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll comes out (yes, this is sadly true). The survey, conducted by Democrat Peter Hart and Republican Bill ...
It’s Nobody’s Turn
March 8, 2011 Consider yourself clairvoyant if you can correctly predict who is going to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The race is that wide open. In most years, Republicans tap the person whose "turn" it is to be the party's standard-bearer, and that individual's identity is often known long before the ...
Sunny-Side Up
March 1, 2011 It seems eerily appropriate that on the day we observed George Washington's birthday, another revolution was taking place, this time in Libya. In what might be the third such toppling of a government in less than two months, we are witnessing more iconic scenes on television of city squares filled ...
Hang On Tight
February 22, 2011 If there were any lingering doubts about whether President Obama got the memo on the midterm elections, they were resolved on Feb. 14 when the White House released its fiscal 2012 budget. Conservatives and Republicans certainly had much to fault, but it was the Democratic base that wasn't feeling the ...
