06 Tuesday Mar 2001
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Tax cut watchers should keep an eye on this coming July. Sometime that month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release the six-month update of its Budget and Economic Outlook. That will include a revised 10-year projection for federal surpluses. And that could make for some pretty interesting politics.
27 Tuesday Feb 2001
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It was supposed to have been the most exciting Senate race since Lincoln met Douglas, threatening even to eclipse the presidential contest for raw political interest. As early as 18 months before the November 2000 elections, all eyes were on New York as the singular, controversial Hillary Rodham Clinton descended on the state to seek the seat of retiring Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan.
20 Tuesday Feb 2001
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Forgive a bit of political whimsy this week. The 2004 presidential election is far enough away that one can speculate freely, without the intrusion of stubborn facts, so why not? Question: What does George W. Bush do to give himself the best chance of re-election?
13 Tuesday Feb 2001
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The first noteworthy intraparty skirmish of the Bush administration and Republicans on Capitol Hill got under way over a subject one might have thought an easy one for the GOP: defense spending.
06 Tuesday Feb 2001
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Shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, People magazine (in an uncharacteristic nod to highbrow culture) ran a profile of the neoconservative intellectual couple Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz. She, a former editor at Basic Books, had founded the Committee for the Free World, whose purpose was to make the intellectual case for the institutions of freedom and against communism. He was the editor of Commentary magazine and had been mentioned as a possible head of the United States Information Agency (USIA).
30 Tuesday Jan 2001
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George W. Bush had as good a first week as any new president could wish – a fact all the more remarkable for the electoral tumult on his way to the White House.
23 Tuesday Jan 2001
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There is already a lot to say about the 43rd president of the United States, and I am looking forward to getting started on the chronicles of an administration that looks to have embarked on the ambitious project of defining a conservative mainstream politics that supersedes (while incorporating many elements of) the ideological conservatism of the Reagan-Gingrich era. This is a big deal, folks, and the future of the GOP is riding on the outcome.
16 Tuesday Jan 2001
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How conservative is the Bush administration going to be? That’s a question on the minds of both liberals and conservatives these days.
11 Thursday Jan 2001
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An often heard lament in Washington is that loyalty is a one-way street. Presidents expect it, but they do not extend it in return. Come a whiff of trouble, and even someone who has served the president well and faithfully for years will find herself cut dead, or perhaps twisting slowly in the wind.
02 Tuesday Jan 2001
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President Clinton has been a truly polarizing figure in American politics, and lots of people (including me) were indulging the hope that after he left Washington this month, the partisan temperature of Washington would decline. During his tenure in office, the amount of energy consumed in attacking him and defending him on cable chat shows alone would have been sufficient to fuel the politics of a mid-sized European country for generations. Surely, this level of animosity could not be sustained indefinitely. Surely, a flame burning this bright eventually consumes itself.
Tod Lindberg 