David Weigel, Washington Monthly. January 9, 2012.
The Tea Party has proved itself spectacularly adept at two tasks: exacting promises and submission from presidential candidates and setting the Republican policy agenda.
Glenn W. Smith, The Rockridge Institute. September 26, 2007.
If an elected official cannot muster the courage to explain their anti-SCHIP vote to the children themselves, in a public setting we all can witness, then they must vote for the bill.
Congress is poised to vote on a funding bill for Iraq that offers no change of course. Those who vote for it will be undermining the troops and enabling a rogue President.
This week George W. Bush vetoed more than $100 billion in funds for the war he chose to start and now refuses to end -- and now the ball is in the Democrats' court.
In a sad attempt to justify his veto, the president says he is listening to military commanders while Congress plays politics. Here's what top military men who commanded troops in Iraq say.
