Picking a fight is GOP tradition
By DAVID BRODER - Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Many Republicans worry that the populist anti-establishment “rogues” such as Sarah Palin will kill GOP prospects for a comeback in 2010 by backing ideologues in many other primaries and scaring off independents and moderate Republicans.
The hand Obama should play
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose -- and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.
A bill that doesn't pay the bill
By DAVID BRODER - Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Unless you find more realistic ways of paying for the promises included in the bill, you are simply setting the public up for more frustration -- and yourselves for a political backlash.
Taking wing in their honor
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
WASHINGTON --
A report that will be issued Wednesday, on Veterans Day, outlines a volunteer community program focused on the nearly 2 million young Americans who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Trouble lies ahead for Democrats
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Tuesday’s defeats in gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey not only ended a decade or more of Democratic gains in those states but signaled possible trouble ahead in the midterm elections at the national level.
Votes this week are prelude to 2010 drama
By DAVID BRODER - Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Tuesday’s voting is merely the curtain-raiser on a full year of headlined Senate and statehouse races that will go a long way toward defining the landscape of President Obama’s political future. The gubernatorial battles will be especially worth watching.
Reid’s risky gamble
By DAVID BRODER - Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, has embraced an odd idea in hopes of satisfying two conflicting imperatives in the battle for health care reform.
Budget sleight of hand
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
WASHINGTON -- When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in the political winds would appear.
Raising the debt ceiling
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done.
Delaware’s battle for Washington
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
WASHINGTON --
As Democrats from Connecticut to Colorado struggle to hold onto their filibuster-proof 60-seat margin, no state—not even Barack Obama’s Illinois—will have higher priority for the White House in upcoming midterm elections than Delaware.
Your plan now, Mr. President
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Through careful navigation of the fiscal and political barriers that have doomed past efforts by Democratic presidents to reform health care, President Obama has steered this enterprise to the point that odds now favor a bill-signing ceremony. But the hardest choices still lie ahead.
A heavy question for our politics
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
WASHINGTON --
I have no rooting interest in the New Jersey race, but the ad hoc Committee of Journalistic Ethics Enforcers has authorized me to condemn this advertising tactic. I very much fear that if Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine pulls out a victory next month after trailing Republican challenger Christopher Christie for months in the polls, the precedent will be set for a really distasteful tactic—the “fat boy” ploy.
Allies at odds on health care
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
WASHINGTON --
As a rule, when the business community decides it wants something in Washington, Republicans listen and respond. Much of their funding comes from the corporate sector, and their philosophy attunes them to the bottom-line concerns of those who live in the world of market competition.
Moment of truth on health care
By DAVID BRODER - Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Factors have combined to strip Barack Obama of the camouflage he once enjoyed when it comes to health care policy.
Here’s hoping Chicago lands 2016 Olympics
By DAVID BRODER - Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
WASHINGTON -- I’m astonished that some carping critics have faulted President Obama for making the 18-hour excursion to Copenhagen to schmooze the International Olympic Committee members who on Friday will decide among Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago.
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