Published on TheHill.com on June 20, 2007.
Anyone who wonders why Congress has a job approval rating of 23 percent, seven points lower than even Bush’s, need only look at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) failure to change the ethics of the Congress. Having pledged to make Congress full-time and put the lackadaisical members to work, […]

If Mike Bloomberg decided to run for President, he would have a strong chance of winning the election. As a social liberal and a fiscal conservative, he fits what most Americans want. And, unlike Ross Perot - the last Independent candidate for President - he is an experienced politician who has succeeded in handling the […]

Published on FoxNews.com on June 14, 2007.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) has handed Republican lawmakers a golden (literally) opportunity to end earmarking during the current session of Congress. (In our new book, Outrage, we highlight how abuse of earmarking costs taxpayers $64 billion — three times what it was just a few […]

Published on TheHill.com on June 13, 2007.
The past week has very possibly been the key turning point in the drive to cripple the Iranian government and force it to back off its nuclear weapons program. Uncovered by the mainstream media, a courageous and far-sighted effort by Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, Frank Gaffney, to force […]

Bush’s visit to Capitol Hill to push his immigration reform bill has, in effect, transformed the vote on the bill into the American equivalent of a British confidence vote. In a parliamentary country, he would have to resign if he lost the vote. Here, he will stay but be slowly twisting in the […]

Bush is now slowly twisting in the wind, disregarded by the Democrats, disliked by the country, and increasingly disdained by his own party. The immigration bill defeat shows that all three are in play.

Published in the New York Post on June 11, 2007.
Something new is going on in the 2008 presidential primaries. Call it an outbreak of nice.
In past contests, attacks and negatives played a key role in the primaries. Voting records, lists of campaign contributors and issue differences all highlighted the debate among the candidates as they […]

Polls show that a big part of the vote that John McCain and Mitt Romney are getting in the Republican primaries, to say nothing of the vote that Newt Gingrich could get if he runs, comes from people who are turned off by Giuliani’s social liberalism rather than turned on by any specific attraction to […]

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