WASHINGTON — President Obama’s personal embrace of gay marriage could negatively affect his prospects for re-election in subtle ways. But only on the margins, which of course is where close campaigns are won and lost.
WASHINGTON — Almost alone, President Obama seemed to have grasped the core problem with college loans last January. Against a backdrop of 4,000 cheering students in maize and blue at the University of Michigan, he proposed that Congress link increases in federal aid to colleges to their ability to rein in college tuition.
Almost three decades ago, Pope John Paul II, alarmed at the way Liberation Theology was tearing apart the Catholic Church from the left, banned political activism by clergy. Perhaps this pope, Benedict XVI, ought to tell some lay Catholics, purportedly speaking in his name on the right, to cool it.
WASHINGTON — As the 747 carrying the retired space shuttle Discovery circled the capital last week, my mind flashed back to the sole encounter I ever had as a reporter with the space program.
WASHINGTON — Between now and Election Day, be poised to hear a lot about “Made in the USA” from congressional candidates, particularly those in the old Rust Belt, but very little political talk linking the subject to professional sports.
WASHINGTON — The New York and Pennsylvania presidential primaries will be held in two weeks and a day, and Republican regulars are hoping that Mitt Romney will have wrapped up his quest for the nomination.
WASHINGTON — The high court made the national health care law run the gauntlet last week. Under torture, the law displayed all the earmarks of other programs of President Obama’s regime: weakness, deal making and, most of all, serial incompetence.
For Rep. Kathy C. Hochul and other House Democrats in deep blue states, Rep. Paul Ryan is the gift that keeps on giving. Hochul became the party’s poster woman last May when she rode to victory in a campaign against Ryan’s proposed revisions to Medicare.
WASHINGTON— Political parties need symbols. The Cheshire Cat fits the tea party. Alice, in her “Adventures in Wonderland,” said she had often seen a cat without a grin, but never a grin without a cat.
WASHINGTON — During the George W. Bush administration, progressive commentators created a cottage industry of attacking a key White House aide named David Addington for his theories that expanded the president’s powers beyond anybody else’s reading of the Constitution.
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