The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
GSA Mishandled Executive Bonuses
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Analysis: How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS
May 16, 2013 The Internal Revenue Service needs a new leader—and fast. The agency hasn't had a commissioner since November, and now it doesn't have an acting commissioner, either. Although lawmakers had been asking about reports that conservative groups were targeted for onerous extra scrutiny, the acting commissioner, Steven Miller, didn't share the ...
Why the AP Phone Records Bombshell Could Threaten Eric Holder's Job
May 14, 2013 The bombshell disclosure that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors could be dramatic enough to move even the phlegmatic Obama administration to action. Three concurrent scandals or controversies are just too many. Could that mean we will be bidding farewell ...
Will George W. Bush Ever Get Historians on His Side?
April 24, 2013 Nearly 60 percent of the historians and political scientists in a 2006 Siena College survey rated George W. Bush’s presidency a failure -- an unscientific sampling that echoed public dismay over Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. Adding insult to injury, two-thirds of the 744 respondents said ...
Analysis: Obama Wasted a Big Chance to Sell His Economic Vision
March 13, 2013 Talk about wasted opportunities. To my mind, President Obama’s interview with ABC News certainly qualifies. Good Morning America is the nation’s No. 1 morning show. It had nearly 6 million viewers as of late last month. Not a bad forum for making your best argument. Instead, Obama and George Stephanopoulos, ...
Analysis: White House Tours Are Fun to Talk About, but Jobs Are the Real Sequester Casualty
March 8, 2013 Republicans are having a great time ridiculing the Obama administration for canceling White House tours as $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts take hold. They’ve got questions for the White House: Why not instead cancel golf, or calligraphy, or the president’s upcoming vacation? They've also got advice for disgruntled ...
'Argo' Is Great, But 52 American Hostages Are Still Looking for Justice
February 25, 2013 Army Col. Leland Holland would sometimes talk about his 444-day hostage ordeal in Iran “like it was a good old fish story,” says his son, John. But other times, recalling how he was beaten with rubber hoses and telephone books, he’d get angry. The memory of picking a lock with ...
The case for Jennifer Granholm as Labor secretary
January 24, 2013 President Obama says he’s very concerned about income inequality. If he wants to elevate that issue in his second term, he should consider naming Jennifer Granholm as his next Labor secretary. The Current TV host and former two-term Michigan governor would be a highly symbolic choice, given that her Republican ...
Analysis: Second-term exodus leaves zero Hispanics in Cabinet
January 18, 2013 Forget all the caterwauling about women (a bit of which, admittedly, came from me). The impending departures of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar leave President Obama’s Cabinet with zero Hispanics, setting off nervous tremors among Latinos and underscoring the inch-deep Democratic bench in that demographic. Even ...
Does Obama Need Romney's Binder Full of Women?
January 10, 2013 The White House photo of the day on Wednesday showed President Obama meeting with eight “senior advisers,” three of them women. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Who would have thought the nation’s first black president would have an optics problem? But his parade of second-term nominations so far is white, ...
6 reasons Obama chose Chuck Hagel
January 7, 2013 Back at the 2004 Republican convention, when then-Sen. Chuck Hagel was weighing whether to run for president, he paid a call on the Iowa delegation. His obligatory joke about his devotion to ethanolwent over well. But then, to the puzzlement of some in the room, he started talking to his ...
