Nancy Pelosi’s Problems are Just Beginning
You wouldn’t know it from the way she’s being covered in most of the Washington media but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a woman with a lot of problems. Instead…
McConnell: Senate to Vote on Green New Deal So Lawmakers Can ‘Go on Record’
By Jack Crowe • National Review Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that the Senate will vote on the Green New Deal resolution introduced last week by a coalition of…
Congress must head off pension plan crisis
I am not generally a big fan of lame-duck sessions because such a large number of soon-to-be former senators and congressmen are voting on their way out the door. But…
Memo To Freshmen Democrats In Congress: To Lead, You Need To Be Smarter Than A Fifth Grader
Investor’s Business Daily Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history as the youngest woman ever to be elected to the House of Representatives at 29, and she’s being hailed by the media as…
Poll: People Care More About High Health Costs Than About Pre-Existing Conditions
By Christopher Jacobs • The Federalist Now they tell us! A Gallup poll, conducted last month to coincide with the midterm elections and released on Tuesday, demonstrated what I had…
Blame Congress for Politicizing the Court
By Senator Ben Sasse (NE) • Wall Street Journal Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of hating women, hating children, hating clean air, wanting dirty water. He’s been declared an existential…
A Brief History of the CIA’s Unpunished Spying on the Senate
By Conor Friedersdorf • The Atlantic This is the story of John Brennan’s CIA spying on Congress and getting away with it. Last March, Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA…
Manchin Praises SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh for Having ‘All The Right Qualities’ to Be Confirmed
By Cameron Cawthorne • Washington Free Beacon Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee for having “all the right qualities.” But he stopped…
No, There Won’t Be a Big Blue Wave
By now a lot of professional Democrats—campaign consultants, party leaders and the like—are probably wishing they’d never heard the term “big, blue wave.” It set expectations so high for the…
A Renewed Case for Term Limits
By Heather Wilhelm • National Review After a week of political chaos, endless dispatches of depressing news from the border, and widespread evidence of years of government incompetence, I have…
The Stakes of the Shutdown Standoff
For various reasons it’s become popular to threaten to shut down the federal government. Whether that goes back to the Reagan years when Democrats would run out the clock on…
Against Restoring Earmarks
By Mattie Duppler • National Review There is now discussion of reviving earmarks: the practice, banned in the House of Representatives since 2010, of inserting funding for lawmakers’ pet projects…
Will Conservatives Fix 1970s Budget Rules Next?
By Michael Barone • National Review The Republicans have passed their tax bill, without a single Democratic vote, despite low to dismal poll ratings. It’s reminiscent of the passage by…
Take Tax Reform to the People
By Peter Roff • USNews Serious people are starting to wonder if tax reform can pass, largely because they’re only talking to people inside Washington. Instead they should talk to…
The Conservative Politics of the Iran Deal
By Matthew RJ Brodsky • National Review Online Republicans have more or less coalesced into two primary political camps regarding the nuclear deal with Iran. Call them “the Fixers” and…