Older Feds Aren't Playing to Their Strengths
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Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
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The Right and Wrong Ways to Change Your Politics
January 29, 2013 Political evolutions are commonplace. The liberal college student becomes a conservative adult. The conservative adult grows more liberal on gay rights. The French orator Francois Guizot said of the anti-monarchists of his day "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at ...
Analysis: Why Benghazi hasn't brought down Hillary Clinton – and won't
January 23, 2013 As Hillary Rodham Clinton marches up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the Benghazi attack, it’ll be the last “scandal” of her 20-year run in Washington. The quotation marks are there for a reason. Most of what has exorcised the Hill and press corps about Hillary Clinton over ...
Analysis: How Chuck Schumer saved Chuck Hagel
January 15, 2013 It shouldn’t have been a shock that Sen. Chuck Schumer announced he’s backing Chuck Hagel. In the tale of two Chucks, a Schumer “nay” would have been devastating—a signal to Democrats and Republicans alike that the Nebraskan was no friend of Israel. That would have made it very uncomfortable for ...
Zero Dark Thirty is about more than torture
January 9, 2013 Zero Dark Thirty came to Washington on Tuesday night with the kind of premiere Washington loves—canapes at the Newseum and a soupcan of controversy. Outside the screening, protesters donned hoods and orange jump suits. Inside you could see Andrea Mitchell and Mark Warner. Folks buzzed about the torture sequences. After ...
The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Chiefs of Staff
January 9, 2013 There’s a scene in The West Wing where the president is off to give the State of the Union and the designated survivor — the cabinet member who would be president should the Capitol be destroyed — comes to visit. President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) asks him: "You got a ...
What history says about Chuck Hagel's Senate chances
January 7, 2013 It’s almost irresistible to compare Chuck Hagel’s controversial nomination and the failed bid of John Tower in 1989. The differences and similarities between the two defense secretary wannabes offer some insight into how much Hagel might be bloodied and how Washington has changed in the intervening years. Like Hagel, Tower ...
Analysis: What Mark Kirk Can Teach a Hypocrite Congress
January 3, 2013 Everyone on Capitol Hill is delighted to see Sen. Mark Kirk return to work today, almost a year after his stroke. Kirk was vigorous and only in his early 50s when he was felled last year, and the illness hit everyone hard. For Kirk, it sparked some new thinking about ...
Defense secretary possibility made name opposing global warming accord
December 20, 2012 When Chuck Hagel's name first came up to be Defense secretary the reaction was positive -- a Douglas Dillon/Robert Gates-style GOP appointment for a Democratic president that was bipartisan and helped Democrats buttress an area where they'd been perceived as being week. In the last few days, attention on Hagel's ...
Poll shows ambivalence on fiscal cliff, support for Rice
December 4, 2012 As the White House and congressional Republicans try to keep the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff, a new survey finds that the public is amenable to raising taxes on wealthier Americans and as averse as ever to cutting entitlement programs. The results are found in the latest ...
The new Congress: Nine things to know
November 6, 2012 For all that talk of voter anger, things look pretty much the same as they did 24 hours ago. Congress is still the same bundle of dysfunction and dyspepsia that it was on Tuesday. The turnover of what looks to be a miniscule number of Senate and House seats—mere puddles ...
