by jpitney | Jul 25, 2024 | Civility
Chris Walsh at the George W. Bush Institute: Imagine someone who believes something you find outrageous, foolish, or even dangerous. The idea of giving that person your valuable time and listening to them seems counterintuitive, but you do it. Now, despite stark...
by jpitney | Jul 24, 2024 | Congress
Daniel Schuman at Washington Monthly: CRS embodies some of the worst dysfunction of the entire legislative branch. With a few notable exceptions in recent years, Republicans inspired by the Newt Gingrich-led revolution of 1995 have advanced policies that...
by jpitney | Jul 23, 2024 | California Politics, Elections
Dan Walters: Former President Donald Trump was preparing to depict Biden as a doddering old man, incapable of governing, but now he will likely face Harris, who is two decades younger. He must devise a new strategy to prevail in the half dozen or so swing states whose...
by jpitney | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
George Washington, September 17, 1796: Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I...
by jpitney | Jul 20, 2024 | Debt, Economic Policy, Social Security
Brian Riedl nails it at Reason: Paradoxically, the faster government debt escalates toward an inevitable debt crisis, the less politicians and voters seem to care. In the 1980s and 1990s, more modest deficits dominated economic policy debates and prompted six...
