Editor’s note: This column was submitted Tuesday, before President Obama’s State of the Union address. Here’s a suggestion for Joni Ernst, the new Republican senator from Iowa, who will deliver the GOP response to the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Get a chorus together and open with this old Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne number: […]
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House passes immigration bill targeting Obama exective orders
WASHINGTON — The House has passed legislation to overturn President Barack Obama’s immigration actions and remove protections for immigrants brought illegally to the country as children. The measures were part of a $39.7 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The vote was 236-191. The legislation faces tough prospects in the Senate and […]
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R. Casimiro: States taking control
The 113th U.S. Congress expires soon; may it rest in peace. Members can enjoy their retirement, as they did little, and what they did do will vex the public for some time. I remember the Tennessee Ernie Ford song: “You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” […]
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Rich Lowry: Obama hands out gifts to Cuba
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic policy concessions without precondition. His surprise unilateral change in the U.S. posture toward the Castro dictatorship came without even the pretense of serious promises by the Cubans to reform their […]
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R. Bechard: Obama must be impeached
For the past six years, America has suffered through the corruption and scandals of the Obama administration. The president has bypassed Congress while using executive orders that were beyond the law and totally unconstitutional. The scandals — the IRS, Benghazi, the incident called “fast-and-furious” and others — combined with Obama’s executive order about illegal immigrants […]
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K. Lawler: A brief reality check
Republicans are threatening to impeach President Obama, and I am confused by the results of the midterm elections. Consider: • U.S. corporate profits are at a record high; • Unemployment, nationally, is below 6 percent; • U.S. gross national product growth is the best among members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation; • The dollar […]
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Austin Bay: Hagel firing simply a theatrical gesture
President Barack Obama has fired Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. The Beltway clerks and pundits tell us Hagel is a political scapegoat, a sacrifice to Obama’s electoral drubbing. This explanation may be accurate, at least in part. Removing a senior cabinet member is an inherently dramatic gesture. It can signal the president’s intent to rectify […]
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Rich Lowry: Obama’s lawlessness undermines Constitution
To think that President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office four times (through accidents of circumstance, twice each time he was elected). Taking the oath must have become such old hat that he stopped paying attention. The president is issuing an executive amnesty for illegal immigrants based on blatant contempt for the constitutional […]
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M.J. Newell: Shut Obama down
Well, our illustrious president went and did it — he has now declared to everyone that he is a dictator and will do what he wants, regardless of the Constitution and the rule of law. Congress better step in and do something before this country is ruined. Barack Obama is the most corrupt and clueless […]
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R.B. Acheson: A Marxist in the White House
Despite our high hopes for his success, Barack Obama’s administration has been the most corrupt in history. The man is either incompetent, or sinister — or both. Obama’s disregard for the rule of law is proved by his many scandals, any one of which would have caused a Republican to be impeached on the spot: […]