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Vetoes Clarify Issues, Strengthen the Party

November 7th, 2014 1 Comment

If you want to lay blame for this week’s Democratic losses, you can point to the president’s collusion with now-outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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President Needs More Vacation, Not Less

September 10th, 2014 No Comments

Focusing on the task at hand is essential, but limiting. Every decision is linked to what came before and what likely will follow. There are no starting or ending points.

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Democracy Needs Better Losers

November 9th, 2012 2 Comments

National Republicans lost badly because they haven’t lost well. Instead of reflecting on their party’s deficiencies after the 2008 drubbing, they treated our president as a fluke, then a fraud, then a patsy. America didn’t like it.

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What Obama Could Learn From Kitzhaber

November 3rd, 2012 No Comments

If President Obama wants his next term to differ from his last, he should heed Kitzhaber’s lesson: deign and reign are four-fifths the same.

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Too Much Information Overwhelms Us All

October 27th, 2011 No Comments

Thirty-one years ago today, our national consciousness took a significant turn that has tangible consequences today. It was on this day that the Too Much Information Age began.

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With 2020 Vision, the President Can Claim the Decade

September 9th, 2011 No Comments

Within a decade, let’s reduce the American work week to 32 hours, and bring millions back into the work force. The president’s political opponents want smaller government. Can they campaign against three-day weekends?

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Thuggery Created the D.C. Crisis

August 5th, 2011 No Comments

We knew the Tea Partiers were extremists and ideologues, but we learned something new when drool stains pooled beneath some of them as calamity loomed.

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Campaign Efficiency Curbs Presidential Power

July 14th, 2011 No Comments

Presidential candidates focus now on “swing states.” That term barely existed 25 years ago. Campaigns have consequences. The president has fewer friends and favors he can call on in those uncontested red states.

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What’s All the FFFFUFFF About?

April 29th, 2011 1 Comment

It must be great to be an auspice. You’re never alone and everything is always under you.

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