By Robert Romano “I want to be absolutely crystal clear — any bill that defunds Obamacare is dead. Dead.” That was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) telling reporters last week that there would not be the votes to pass a House Republican plan to defund the […]

By Rick Manning The inside the Beltway war against Senator Ted Cruz has been fully joined. Fox News’ Chris Wallace revealed, “This has been one of the strangest weeks I’ve ever had in Washington. As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research […]

By Robert Romano One curiosity in the House of Representatives’ new continuing resolution that would defund implementation of the health care law was inclusion of the Full Faith and Credit Act , legislation that guarantees debt service payments will continue in the event the debt ceiling is reached. As current law stands, should the statutory […]

By Robert Romano House leadership on Sept. 18 presented a continuing resolution that will defund Obamacare in full . The move came after an abortive attempt to pass two bills, one that funded the government, and one that defunded Obamacare — effectively giving the Senate the option to bypass the defund bill. More or less, that’s a victory for House conservatives, who […]

By Robert Romano “In choosing Tony Abbott, the Liberal Party has chosen the least electable of the three candidates who were on the ballot today.” That was Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher’s take way back in December 2009 on Tony Abbott winning leadership of Australia’s right-of-center Liberal Party. All the smartest people in the room said he couldn’t win, but […]

By Rick Manning A version of this article appeared in TheHill.com. Rahm Emanuel’s infamous quote, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before,” has never been more relevant than it is today when […]

By Howard Rich A version of this article appeared in USAToday.com. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been working hard to raise achievement levels for students in his state by expanding choices in the academic marketplace. “The moral imperative to improve education is more than an economic one,” Jindal said in promoting his choice initiatives […]

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By Rick Manning House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are engaged in a cynical attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of voters on the issue of defunding Obamacare, and they are hoping no one back home notices. The ploy is to pass a […]

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