By Ed Rogers The Washington Post When congressional negotiators reached a budget agreement late Sunday night, the breaking news was followed by predictably tiresome complaints, whining and hand-wringing from so-called fiscally conservative Republicans. They are criticizing the president and GOP leadership, saying mainstream Republicans gave up on their pledge to cut this program and that […]
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Health care issue isn’t over yet
WASHINGTON — Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and the House Republicans appear unable to reconcile their differences. Neither condition needs to be permanent. There are ideological differences between the various GOP […]
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Trump should take lesson from House
The following appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post: What happened this week among House Republicans carries a useful and important lesson. The incoming GOP conference voted secretly to emasculate the independent House ethics watchdog, and when the action became public, a torrent of protests erupted. Even President-elect Donald Trump expressed doubt, and the lawmakers backed down. […]
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Liberal media bias
Wow. The Washington Post claims Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump in the polls. Isn’t The Washington Post a liberal newspaper? From what I have seen, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and other news media across the country are all in the tank for their hero, Clinton. They don’t care that she has been proven to be […]
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Will the GOP support Trump?
The following editorial appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post. Just when you thought the presidential campaign couldn’t get any more bizarre — just when you thought American politics might finally have exhausted the possibilities for cynicism and irresponsibility — certain Republican Party insiders have begun developing strange new respect for the candidate whose meteoric rise only […]
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Democracy works better when there is mutual respect
It is time for Republicans to ask ourselves a question: Are we so obsessed with the damage we believe Barack Obama and the American left are doing to the values we hold dear that we would ignore the serious threat posed by the candidacy of Donald Trump — or is there something even more dangerous […]
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Taxing multinationals a problem for next president
WASHINGTON — Whoever wins the White House next year will have to deal with an issue of almost-impenetrable complexity and contentiousness: How to tax multinational companies? On the one hand, large global firms — which have never been shy about minimizing their taxes through deft accounting maneuvers — are becoming more aggressive. On the other, […]
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Paul Ryan faces too-familiar struggle
Good luck to Paul Ryan. I am not referring to whether he will get along with the Freedom Caucus, what with its insistence on a congressional version of Magna Carta (down with the power of the speaker, up with the power of the committee barons), but whether he can make it home on the weekend […]
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Bernanke memoir explains much, not all
WASHINGTON — Reading former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s new memoir of the financial crisis — “The Courage to Act” — you are reminded how lucky we are. Despite a disappointingly slow economic recovery, it could have been much, much worse. The conventional wisdom is that we have dodged a second Great Depression, when the […]