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Analysis: Obama Appears at a Loss to Define the Way Forward in Syria
May 1, 2013 President Obama did not start the Syrian crisis, and the blood-soaked civil war has never lent itself to easy choices. In fact, the choices have always been among the hardest any U.S. president has faced in the region. Syria is more than a country, and its civil war is more ...
Analysis: Living With the Nuances, Ironies, and Flexibility of Sequestration
March 6, 2013 I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the Twitpic Sequester Olympics. Brad Woodhouse, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, got the games going late Tuesday with a picture from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and a long line of weary travelers. The Twitpic, shot by Jim Neal, a ...
Analysis: Hysteria over fiscal cliff may spur deal
November 29, 2012 If there is one redeeming feature of the otherwise gutless and indolent sequestration process, it is the underappreciated component of hysteria. Already, local news stations are running “fiscal cliff” countdown clocks. Fevered curiosity over the ebb and flow of cliff negotiations is rising and may soon creep near the Kardashian ...
Obama counters Boehner's opening bid on fiscal cliff
November 9, 2012 Wedged between standing ovations from supporters fore and aft, President Obama on Friday steered the good ship reelection straight toward the rocks of Speaker John Boehner’s refusal to raise income-tax rates on wealthy Americans. “We have to combine spending cuts with revenue,” Obama said from the East Room in his ...
Romney campaign denies acting rashly on Libyan situation
September 12, 2012 Caught up in the middle of a roiling and deadly foreign policy crisis, Mitt Romney’s campaign denies it acted rashly in condemning the Obama administration’s reaction to fatal assaults against U.S. diplomats in Libya and a violent raid against the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Senior Romney advisers, who declined to ...
Decision to move Obama's speech inside sparks scramble
September 6, 2012 The game was called on account of thunderstorms. Or at least a 30-to-40 percent chance of them. The decision to relocate President Obama’s acceptance speech tonight from Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena left thousands of would-be attendees frustrated and hunting for other venues to watch ...
Obama Campaign Is Brutal This Time
August 21, 2012 President Obama's reelection effort isn't the toughest, or most aggressive, in American history. It only looks and feels that way compared with the gauzy memories most have of the lilt, sunshine, and post-partisan pixie dust of 2008. Never mind that Obama was tough in the clutch during his primary cage ...
Romney-Ryan Pros and Cons
August 14, 2012 Paul Ryan isn't a two-fer in presidential politics. He's a ten-fer. Not because it's convenient but because it's true, Ryan brings five potential advantages and five potential hazards to Mitt Romney. Unlike anyone else Romney could have picked, Ryan is multifaceted politically and genuinely memorable on the gritty substance of ...
Analysis: If reelected, would Obama be able to govern?
July 20, 2012 It’s only July, and President Obama’s campaign has already called Mitt Romney an outsourcing, job-killing, company-bankrupting whiner who may also be a tax cheat and a felon. The brass knuckles are out, the presumptive Republican nominee is bleeding, and Obama is selling off his likability as if it were an ...
Analysis: Unfairly maligned solicitor general has last laugh on health care ruling
June 29, 2012 Like some cable-news viewers, President Obama was at first confused on Thursday about the Supreme Court ruling on his health care law. He saw the erroneous CNN report that the individual mandate had been overturned and thought, momentarily, that the Court had nullified his signature legislative accomplishment. Standing in the ...
